· Private foundation
Frank M Barnard Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BARNARD COLLEGE OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ARNOLD ARBORETUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $9,470 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $8,000 |
| AT EAGLE POND | $5,175 |
| CONCORD MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| LARRY MCMURTRY LITERARY CENTER | $5,000 |
| STORY PRESERVATION INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY ART CENTER | $5,000 |
| THE AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| HOLYOKE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $3,179 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
- CACOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC5× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +105%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +26%
- NBNorth Bennet Street School3× · 2022–2024 · $11k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CCColby-Sawyer Collegeone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -30%
- TOTHE OLD STONE HOUSE MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FTFAMILY TO FAMILY INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
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 Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…
We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Old Sturbridge Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Wilmot Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds ALICE JAMES POETRY COOPERATIVE ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds At Eagle Pond Inc ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TO FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Pathways Early Education Center of Immokalee Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLYOKE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORP ↗
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- Who funds TLC FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
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- Who funds Home HealthCare Hospice & Community Services Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Claremont Savings Bank Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Frank M Barnard Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Lake Champlain Land Trust Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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