· Private foundation
Neal Rantoul Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN | $15,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF BOSTON & LYNN | $15,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $10,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $10,000 |
| CCCBSD - BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $10,000 |
| NEW ART CENTER | $8,000 |
| CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON | $7,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC | $6,000 |
| HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC6× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +159%
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN7× · 2019–2025 · $62k · revenue +98%- LFLEAP for Education Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NENEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSICone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -20%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $6k
- SSPOONFULSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +31%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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,…
The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn and the most unlike its peers is Habitat Plus Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 26 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds Wenham Historical Association & Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ge Aerospace Foundation · McCarthy Family Foundation · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 Neal Rantoul 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.
- Habitat Plus Inc — 50% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% 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.