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Mussafer 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.

$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$6.8MPhilanthropy$2.0MEmployment$600kYouth Development$487kEnvironment$193kHealth$159kArts & Culture$84kRecreation & Sports$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $295k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $653k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.9M
$5,210
Median grant
12
States reached
$57M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TULANE UNIVERSITY$1,010,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$850,000
YEAR UP$200,000
MA WONDERFUND INC$150,000
CITY YEAR INC$150,000
COREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION$98,090
JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST$55,000
STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION$30,000
UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON$25,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$20,000
UNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION$20,000
RIPPLES OF HOPE$12,000
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 78% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BRIDGING TECH CHARITABLE FUND: $2k → 7%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $1k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $4k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%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

WA
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
TN
NC
SC
DC
LA
AL
TX

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.9M · 39 repeat orgs$369k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
33

Total granted

$8.9M
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+20%

Still filing today

82%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $138k 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
EducationHealthPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +25%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +4%
  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • TD
    TULANE - DISCRETIONARY
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • SA
    SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -91%
  • NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +4%

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
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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2
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
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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5
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
6
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
7
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
8
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yeamans Hall Club Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChristian Missionary Organi…Youth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsUnited Way AffiliatesChristian Youth CampsLocal History MuseumsCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development CentersSchool District FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Development ServicesCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr14%71%35–55yr14%7%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/80
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,278

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

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

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 98 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
49/78
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $4,020,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUNDYEAR UP INC — $600,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCDUKE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · Education+11 more — $282,407 · Education+11 moreCITY YEAR INC — $2,260,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION — $302,090 · OtherCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATIONMA WONDERFUND INC — $300,000 · OtherMA WONDERFUND INCMA WONDERFUL INC — $250,000 · OtherMA WONDERFUL INC+42 more — $441,179 · Other+42 moreBoston Foundation Inc — $1,250,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundati…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $100,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of M…+6 more — $72,575 · PhilanthropyJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $172,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC — $20,000 · Environment+3 more — $12,000 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $7,505 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON — $7,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $48,000 · Arts & CultureSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCommunity Center for the Arts — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $5,500 · Arts & CultureBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,500 · HealthITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,149 · HealthRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $5,000 · HealthPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE — $3,500 · HealthLENNY LEARNING INC — $3,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $2,500 · HealthTHE V FOUNDATION — $2,500 · HealthCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC — $2,500 · Health+2 more — $1,530 · Health
Education$5,102,407Other$3,553,269Philanthropy$1,422,575Environment$204,000Youth Development$195,505Arts & Culture$83,500Health$46,179

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $4,020,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $2,260,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $1,250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST — $172,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $73,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $48,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH IMPROVING NON-PROFITS FOR CHILDREN — $45,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNITE THE WORLD WITH AFRICA FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRIPPLES OF HOPE INC — $36,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORRY'S CAMP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 6.6% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetJackson Hole Childrens Museum Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCommunity Center for the Arts — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS — $8,075 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $7,505 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $5,149 over 1y, 0.0% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $5,099 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRARE VILLAGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Oceans — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Rhode Island Comm…Higgins Family Founda…Bain Capital Children…Mutual of America Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…The Goldman Sachs Cha…
Boston Foundation IncMA28.3× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Higgins Family Foundation · Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd · Mutual of America Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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 Mussafer 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 · 130%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 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
13get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.

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 98 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.

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