· Private foundation
Nara Fund 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM | $25,000 |
| FRIENDS IN SERVICE HELPING | $20,000 |
| READY SET SMILE | $15,000 |
| SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $10,000 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| CAMP CARE NEVADA FOUNDATION | $9,000 |
| LATHAM MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $7,040 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $5,000 |
| THEATER LATT DA | $5,000 |
| KENYA INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL | $3,500 |
| THETFORD FOOD SHELF | $3,000 |
| COMMUNITY NURSE OF THETFORD | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FFFUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +83%
- RSREADY SET SMILE PA9× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +196%
- TLTHEATER LATTE DA9× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +84%
Funded once
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +49%- SSTEPone grant, 2023 · $6k
- WHWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +9%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Our mission is to prevent, treat, and cure diabetes. our vision is a world free of diabetes and its complications.
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served and as a network its purpose is to create healthier…
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Medical Center Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Thetford Volunteer Fire Department. 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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FUND FOR INVESTIGATIVE JOURNALISM INC ↗
- Who funds READY SET SMILE PA ↗
- Who funds THEATER LATTE DA ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds Campcare Nevada Foundation ↗
- Who funds Latham Memorial Library Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEVILLAGE PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS AND HORSES INC ↗
- Who funds Thetford Volunteer Fire Department ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRWARNING INC ↗
- Who funds American Thyroid Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
- Who funds MIKE'S 5K TO CRUSH SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Nara Fund Inc 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.
- Second Wind Foundation — 85% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Latham Memorial Library Inc — 1% of income from government
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.