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Fraser Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$148kEducation$130kEnvironment$128kReligion$84kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$27kFood & Nutrition$18kHousing & Shelter$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENNER ACADEMY INC$22,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$15,000
COOKIES FOR KIDS' CANCER$6,500
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$5,000
CREATIVE PLAY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$5,000
ST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCH$5,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$5,000
NATIONAL MS SOCIETY$5,000
ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL$1,000
NEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$550
NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL$511
THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY$250
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY$139
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–23, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOPE & COMFORT: $1k → 7%YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDREN'S RIGHTS: $500 → 14%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS: $2k → 8%BRAZOS VALLEY CARES: $4k → 22%BRAZOS VALLEY CARES: $3k → 22%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
TN
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$329k · 24 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
40

Total granted

$329k
$279k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+39%

Still filing today

79%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OE
    OPAS Encore Inc
    2× · 2019–2022 · $33k · revenue +51%
  • PJ
    PROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +26%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    3× · 2019–2022 · $17k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • GI
    GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • SA
    ST ANDREWS CHURCH
    one grant, 2019 · $60k
  • SF
    Stuttering Foundation of America
    one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue -2%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
3
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
8
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
9
The Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Fdn Group

Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.

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10
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
11
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Petsmart Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

45 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 68 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENT: $100,000 · OtherGASPARILLA ISLAND CONSERVATION & IMPROVEMENTST ANDREWS CHURCH: $60,000 · OtherST ANDREWS CHURCHPROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · OtherPROVINCETOWN JAZZ FESTIVAL INCNATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $16,000 · OtherST JOSEPHS CATHOLIC CHURCH: $15,000 · OtherStuttering Foundation of America: $12,500 · Other+29 more: $128,375 · Other+29 moreRenner Academy: $56,000 · EducationRenner AcademyTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTE…CREATIVE PLAY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 · EducationSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $5,000 · Education+3 more: $5,011 · EducationCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $55,000 · HealthCOOKIES FOR KIDS C…American Heart Association Inc: $17,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Ass…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,000 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIPLE …Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $9,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,500 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX …+1 more: $3,000 · HealthOPAS Encore Inc: $32,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,739 · Arts & CultureBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $9,500 · EnvironmentTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $9,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,500 · Environment+2 more: $625 · EnvironmentBRAZOS VALLEY CARES INC: $6,695 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $1,875 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $1,000 · Human Services+1 more: $500 · Human ServicesMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $4,875 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 · AnimalsPETSMART CHARITIES INC: $1,875 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 · Animals
Other$351,875Education$111,011Health$104,500Arts & Culture$34,239Environment$26,625Human Services$15,070Animals$10,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenner Academy: $56,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCOOKIES FOR KIDS CANCER A NEW JERSEY NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPAS Encore Inc: $32,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStuttering Foundation of America: $12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOV INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $9,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAZOS VALLEY CARES INC: $6,695 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSt Petersburg Free Clinic Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD MUSEUMS CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $4,875 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER OF CAPE COD INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH ACADEMY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR CITIZENS AND SCHOLARS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetR'CLUB CHILD CARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETSMART CHARITIES INC: $1,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF BERKSHIRE COUNTY: $1,875 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NIGHTINGALE-BAMFORD SCHOOL: $1,011 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHERE LOVE GROWS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $139 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Malcolm and Elizabeth…Eastern Bank Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Paypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…
Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fraser Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fraser Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Health Center of Cape Cod Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Springfield Museums Corporation: 5% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Fraser Family Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Fraser Family Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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