· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CIRCLE OF FRIENDS | $10,000 |
| SAINT PAUL CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $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 |
| COMMUNITY NURSE OF THETFORD | $3,000 |
| THETFORD FOOD SHELF | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +70%- SSTEPone grant, 2023 · $6k
- WHWILLING HANDS ENTERPRISES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +9%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
- Who funds SECOND WIND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRWARNING INC ↗
- Who funds American Thyroid Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN COLLEGE OF ENDOCRINOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds MIKE'S 5K TO CRUSH SUBSTANCE ABUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Lung Cancer Alliance ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nara Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nara Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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