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Neal Rantoul Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Neal Rantoul Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$121k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Youth Development$173kArts & Culture$159kHuman Services$117kEducation$106kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$16kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BOSTON BALLET$10,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$10,000
CCCBSD - BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERV: $5k → 10%FAMILY & CHILDRENS SERV: $3k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $8k → 10%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $8k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$563k · 16 repeat orgs$63k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against -18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$563k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
-18%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $66k · revenue +159%
  • GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $62k · revenue +98%
  • LF
    LEAP for Education Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $55k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -20%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $6k
  • TF
    The Food Project Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -18%
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.

04Its field

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.

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
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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3
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
4
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
5
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
6
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
9
Brookline Arts Center

The Brookline Arts Center is a visual arts center committed to bringing the community meaningful experience in the arts through classes, exhibitions and outreach.

Arts & Culture
10
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
11
The Boston Children's School Inc

To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

Education
12
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
10/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAW ART WORKS INC: $46,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCHABITAT PLUS INC: $40,000 · OtherHABITAT PLUS INCHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE: $29,000 · OtherHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGECHAMELEON ARTS: $24,000 · OtherCHAMELEON ARTSCCCBSD - BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $10,000 · OtherCCCBSD - BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE …Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $13,000 · Other+3 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $65,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF L…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $61,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF …BOSTON BALLET INC: $52,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS…Wenham Historical Association & Museum Inc: $18,000 · Arts & CultureWenham Historical Asso…NEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $13,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ART CENTER IN NEWT…CHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBL…LEAP for Education Inc: $55,000 · EducationLEAP for Education…ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $21,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY …CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $20,000 · EducationCHILDRENS CENTER F…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSER…YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $35,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $39,750 · Community ImprovementThe Food Project Inc: $5,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULS: $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$178,000Youth Development$127,000Arts & Culture$125,000Education$103,000Human Services$43,500Community Improvement$39,750Food & Nutrition$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $65,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $61,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $55,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $52,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $46,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT PLUS INC: $40,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $39,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $21,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWenham Historical Association & Museum Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMELEON ARTS ENSEMBLE OF BOSTON INC: $7,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPOONFULS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncEssex County Communit…People's United Commu…Salem Five Charitable…Cummings Foundation G…Ge Aerospace Foundati…McCarthy Family Found…Edward S & Winifred G…Van Otterloo Family F…Amelia Peabody Founda…The Hamilton Company …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA22.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Neal Rantoul Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neal Rantoul Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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