· Private foundation
Fan Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| MIT | $25,000 |
| CHINESE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF NE | $25,000 |
| BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $20,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY FUND - THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER | $10,000 |
| SOUTH COVE MANOR NURSING | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $10,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ADDGENE | $10,000 |
| BROOKLINE LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2020–2024 · $120k · revenue +39%
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +98%- BTBROOKLINE TEEN CENTER4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BEBROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -4%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Boston library consortium, inc. (the organization or "blc") was incorporated in 1977 as amassachusetts not-for-profit corporation. blc is a library consortium serving public and privateuniversities, liberal arts colleges, state libraries,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
How this is measured
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE TEEN CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Brookline Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Brookline High School 21st Century Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Addgene Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fan Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fan Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Addgene Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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