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.

Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc

Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$150k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% 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

02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k5 grants · $75k
$50k–250k4 grants · $400k

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$14M

Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 96% of reported assets are held in G2143t103 Cimpress Plc.

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION	$150,000
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION	$100,000
REPRODUCTIVE EQUITY NOW FOUNDATION INC	$100,000
PRESIDENTS & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE	$50,000
TRIFORM ENTERPRISES LTD	$30,000
TRIFORM ENTERPRISES LTD	$15,000
TRIFORM ENTERPRISES LTD	$10,000
POTCAKE PLACE K9 RESCUE	$10,000
TRIFORM ENTERPRISES LTD	$10,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

US giving: 90% of grant dollars ($6.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($788k) is mapped below.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $650k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($788k)

2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

France$778k · 15 grants

Puerto Rico$10k · 2 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 100% of Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 0%.

Heather and Robert Keane Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.6M · 23 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.6M

$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%

-5%

Still filing today

83%

47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureInternationalHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentHousing & 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.

Backed again, and grew

FH
FREEDOM HOUSE
6× · 2019–2024 · $720k · revenue +45%
FO
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC
5× · 2018–2023 · $660k · revenue +19%
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $600k · revenue +582%

Funded once

RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC
one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -25%
AS
AMERICAN SCHOOL OF PARIS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2017 · $200k
IM
INSTEAD MANAGEMENT EDUCATION FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $100k

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.

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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Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

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

Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment

Harvard Management Company Inc

Provide investment management services to harvard university.

Education

Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…

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Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education

Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc

The organization provides fundraising support for cha and all related organizations. please see schedule o for remainder of disclosure.

Health

Cambridge Street Community Development Corporation

To further the rational development of the cambridge street area of the city of boston and its environments.

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Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reproductive Equity Now Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is The National Museum of Women in the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 40 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

28/28

Grantees still filing

14/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

International$1,185,239Other$2,333,903Education$990,000Civil Rights$840,000Environment$832,500Arts & Culture$815,000Human Services$650,000

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.

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home