· Private foundation
Neil & Anna Rasmussen 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $304k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $4.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIT | $3,012,500 |
| MASS EYE AND EAR | $1,260,000 |
| HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST | $210,000 |
| WGBH | $205,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $200,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON | $130,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $130,000 |
| SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC | $130,000 |
| WALDEN WOODS PROJECT | $116,145 |
| LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE | $100,000 |
| THOREAU FARM | $85,179 |
| CONCORD MUSEUM | $60,000 |
| RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $50,000 |
| WRIGHT TAVERN LEGACY TRUST | $25,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +48% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +69%
- TWTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT7× · 2017–2024 · $848k · revenue +236%
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $450k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- EHEMERSON HOSPITAL - ANNUALone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- MEMA EYE AND EARone grant, 2017 · $410k
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.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Conservation and preservation of land.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.
The mwm owns and operates the waterworks museum (the "museum"), including a community meeting room. the museum is a single condominium unit of the museum building condominium, one of separate condominium building regimes on the site. the…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Revolutionary spaces brings people together to explore the american struggle to create and sustain a free society, singularly evoked by boston's old south meeting house and old state house. we steward these buildings as gathering spaces…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Ralph Waldo Emerson Memorial Association. 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 94 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 CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds DEPLOYUS INC ↗
- Who funds RALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE THOREAU SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE WAYSIDE INN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC ↗
- Who funds TERRAPRAXIS INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Kane Wallace Foundation · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Diomedes Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Pobble Stone Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund 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 Neil & Anna Rasmussen 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.
- Wright Tavern Legacy Trust — 100% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Black Women Build - Baltimore Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Academy of Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man National Park Assoc Inc — 1% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield 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.