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French 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.

$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$69kHealth$45kPublic Benefit$39kHuman Services$33kEmployment$24kPhilanthropy$22kFood & Nutrition$20kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k29 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $32k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$112k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEALS OF HOPE$11,940
ACE OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
HEADING HOME INC$10,000
MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$8,120
HALEY & ALDRICH INC GOLF TOURNAMENT (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$5,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$5,000
CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD$4,255
Individual grant recipient$3,000
THE FOUNDATION FOR MARISOL JOURNEY (THE MARISOL FOUNDATION)$2,500
BUILDING PATHWAYS$2,500
WENWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO INSTITUTE ADVANCEMENT RELATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION$1,500
CONSTRUCTION INCLUSION WEEK$1,500
AMERICAN LEGION RIDERS 101$1,250
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.

area typical 7%GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
RI
CO
DC
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$255k · 28 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
36

Total granted

$255k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+6%
+10%

Still filing today

39%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHealthArts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterPublic BenefitOther
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

  • HH
    HEADING HOME INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +200%
  • WA
    Wreaths Across America
    2× · 2020–2021 · $36k · revenue +63%
  • MO
    MEALS OF HOPE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $17k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
  • SA
    ST ANTHONY SHRINE
    one grant, 2022 · $6k
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
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
—
3
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
4
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
5
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation for Expanding Health Care Access
Human Services
6
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
7
Boston Firemen's Relief Fund
Public Safety & Disaster
8
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
9
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
—
10
Sally Naser Charitable Foundation

To fundraise through events and donations for the purpose of supporting pediatric cancer research and pediatric cancer patient support programs.

Health
11
Portsmouth General Hospital Foundation
—
12
New England Circle D/B/a Global Citizens Circle
Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cornerstone Productions Ltd. 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

29 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. 29 of the 75 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
15/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ACE OF GREATER BOSTON: $30,000 · OtherACE OF GREATER BOSTONIndividual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,120 · OtherGILBANE BUILDING COMPANY: $8,000 · OtherHALEY & ALDRICH INC GOLF TOURNAMENT (CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL): $7,000 · OtherWENWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLO INSTITUTE ADVANCEMENT RELATION: $6,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $6,290 · OtherST ANTHONY SHRINE: $6,000 · Other+53 more: $90,001 · Other+53 moreHEADING HOME INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INCWreaths Across America: $36,215 · Public BenefitWreaths Acr…MILFORD REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 · HealthCATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION: $3,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,500 · Health+1 more: $600 · HealthCASHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 · PhilanthropyTHE SEAN ELMORE MEMORIAL FUND INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GIVING CIRCLE: $2,500 · PhilanthropyERLAND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 · PhilanthropyCONSIGLI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $18,500 · EmploymentMEALS OF HOPE INC: $17,040 · Food & Nutrition
Other$171,911Housing & Shelter$65,000Public Benefit$36,215Health$23,600Philanthropy$21,800Employment$18,500Food & Nutrition$17,040

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 budgetHEADING HOME INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWreaths Across America: $36,215 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUILDING PATHWAYS INC: $18,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS OF HOPE INC: $17,040 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $8,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOOSOX FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD: $4,255 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetTHE SEAN ELMORE MEMORIAL FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE GIVING CIRCLE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetERLAND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTILITY CONTRACTORS ASSOCIATION OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSIGLI FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRYCO FOUNDATION 2021-A INC: $1,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER BILLERICA INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT YOUTH ACTIVITIES AND DARE INC: $600 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $558 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNORTHEAST CENTER FOR TRADESWOMEN'S EQUITY INC: $400 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC: $273 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.

  • Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds MEALS OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds CASHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MELANOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds WOOSOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE PRODUCTIONS LTD ↗
  • Who funds THE SEAN ELMORE MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHERINE J MALATESTA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE GIVING CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GLEN DOHERTY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ERLAND CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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.

The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC5.4× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 French Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from French Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Building Pathways Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to French Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to French Family Foundation 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 75 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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