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Keane 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$2.2MRecreation & Sports$2.1MHealth$1.3MYouth Development$764kEnvironment$208kPhilanthropy$201kCommunity Improvement$100kSocial Science$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $267k
  • $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $600k
$29,300
Median grant
10
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
US SAILING FOUNDATION$600,000
YOUTHPOWER 365 (VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION)$165,000
VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL$150,000
PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$125,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$100,000
US SKI & SNOWBOARD FOUNDATION$75,000
UASPIRE$75,000
SKI & SNOWBOARD CLUB VAIL$75,000
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$60,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
BRAVEN INC$50,000
ONEGOAL$50,000
COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL$50,000
BOSTON FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION$40,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%WINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION: $40k → 6%HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: $25k → 17%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $50k → 12%WINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION: $25k → 6%LAST MILE EDUCATION FUND: $15k → 12%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $3k → 16%WINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
RI
CA
UT
CO
NC
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.1M · 25 repeat orgs$562k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
18

Total granted

$5.1M
$445k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+14%

Still filing today

76%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $117k 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
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentOther

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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $600k · revenue +50%
  • VM
    VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $485k · revenue +1%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $245k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +58%
  • TS
    THE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -56%
  • HC
    HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
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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11
Northeastern University
Education
12
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uaspire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%6%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%62%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
26/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

US SAILING FOUNDATION — $1,330,000 · OtherUS SAILING FOUNDATIONSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $455,000 · OtherSki and Snowboard Club VailYOUTHPOWER 365 (VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION) — $330,000 · OtherYOUTHPOWER 365 (VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION)COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC — $100,000 · OtherBoston Foundation Inc — $100,633 · Other+25 more — $434,600 · Other+25 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,075,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard…VAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $485,200 · EducationVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOLWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $201,000 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYTrustees of Dartmouth College — $150,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth CollegeUASPIRE INC — $125,000 · EducationUASPIRE INC+3 more — $10,000 · EducationBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $600,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACON…BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $300,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY …Children's Hospital Corporation — $240,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $245,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $51,500 · Youth DevelopmentUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $150,000 · Recreation & SportsThe Cycle Effect — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsLAND'S SAKE INC — $165,000 · EnvironmentNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $10,000 · EnvironmentWINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $65,000 · Human ServicesHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $25,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human Services
Other$2,750,233Education$2,046,200Health$1,140,000Youth Development$471,500Recreation & Sports$235,000Environment$208,000Human Services$177,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,075,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $600,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL MOUNTAIN SCHOOL — $485,200 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSki and Snowboard Club Vail — $455,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC — $300,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $245,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $240,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $201,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC — $165,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetUnited States Ski Team Foundation — $150,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $100,633 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWINDMARK SAILING FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAST MILE EDUCATION FUND — $65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $51,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Cycle Effect — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SAILING FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHICAGO YACHT CLUB — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTHPOWER365 — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS ASSOCIATION OF NANTUCKET INC — $2,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Boston Foundation IncBorgen Family Foundat…Silicon Valley Commun…Combined Jewish Phila…Colorado Gives Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Charities Aid Foundat…American Endowment Fo…
National Philanthropic TrustPA16.5× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Borgen Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Colorado Gives Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation

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 Keane Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Keane Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Keane 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 55 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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