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Heather and Robert Keane 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.

$475k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
19
Organizations funded FY2024
37%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$30,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
10 to 19
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$14M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 37% of the organizations Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$425k0%
FY202419$744k37%
FY202315$984k13%
FY202217$805k12%
FY202117$1.7M18%
FY202019$879k47%
FY201913$650k31%
FY201810$175k50%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.7MRecreation & Sports$1.3MInternational$1.2MArts & Culture$842kHealth$680kHuman Services$600kCivil Rights$450kHousing & Shelter$377kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFreedom House: $720,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of the Public Garden Inc: $660,000 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetEsplanade Association Inc: $600,000 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $500,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetRian Immigrant Center Inc: $500,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetNational Redistricting Foundation: $450,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetReproductive Equity Now Foundation Inc: $390,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetHeading Home Inc: $369,345 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Insead Management Education Foundation: $300,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetTriform Enterprises Ltd: $240,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCharles River Conservancy Inc: $172,500 over 4y, 8.5% of budget1for3org Inc: $156,239 over 6y, 34% of budgetCamphill Foundation: $90,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetChicken & Egg Films Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHandel and Haydn Society: $75,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBeacon Hill Civic Association Inc: $65,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetEllis Marsalis Center for Music Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of African American History Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSummer Search: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget152 Commonwealth Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGreg Hill Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Museum of Women in the Arts: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSocial & Economic Action for Lebanoninc: $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPlanning Office for Urban Affairs Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA28.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Susan M Deutsch Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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.

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About Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc

How much does Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc give?
Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc reported 9 grants totaling $475,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Recreation & Sports (16%), International (16%).
Who are Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Freedom House ($720k), Friends of the Public Garden Inc ($660k), Esplanade Association Inc ($600k).
Does Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries.
Where is Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc based?
Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 40 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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