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Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
48
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$6.0MArts & Culture$5.0MEnvironment$2.3MEducation$1.1MPhilanthropy$465kAnimals$220kFood & Nutrition$110kHuman Services$110kOther$0
02FY2024 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $304k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+2 grants · $4.3M
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$52M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SAVE OUR HERITAGE INC$130,000
CONCORD ACADEMY$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
NRDC$25,000
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOUSEHOLD GOODS: $10k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
NC
DC
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$27M · 62 repeat orgs$5.2M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

62
26

Total granted

$27M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+38%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalOther
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

  • CA
    CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +20%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +91%
  • TW
    THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT
    7× · 2017–2024 · $848k · revenue +236%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL - ANNUAL
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • ME
    MA EYE AND EAR
    one grant, 2017 · $410k
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
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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2
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
3
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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4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Massachusetts Land Conservation Trust

Conservation and preservation of land.

Environment
6
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
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7
Maine Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Society for the Preservation of New Engl

We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
9
Metropolitan Waterworks Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Revolutionary Spaces Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; 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.
04the grantee network

62 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/62
Grantees still filing
48/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIT: $14,342,500 · OtherMITIndividual grant recipient: $2,500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMASS EYE AND EAR: $1,510,000 · OtherMASS EYE AND EARWGBH: $1,040,000 · OtherLOUISA MAY ALCOTT ASSOCIATION - ORCHARD HOUSE: $1,030,000 · OtherEMERSON HOSPITAL - ANNUAL: $1,010,000 · Other+42 more: $3,485,863 · Other+42 moreCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $1,381,938 · Arts & CultureCONCORD AN…THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $847,570 · Arts & CultureTHE WALDEN…LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureLOUISA MAY…THE THOREAU SOCIETY INC: $150,080 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $100,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $152,658 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,100,000 · HealthEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $401,000 · HealthCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 · Health+3 more: $43,000 · HealthWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $450,000 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY: $265,000 · EducationCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $210,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $70,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street School: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $35,000 · EducationHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST: $380,000 · EnvironmentDEPLOYUS INC: $325,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $65,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $45,600 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $40,000 · Environment+6 more: $68,000 · EnvironmentSAVE OUR HERITAGE INC: $430,000 · PhilanthropyCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $80,000 · Crime & LegalCONCORD PRISON OUTREACH INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$24,918,363Arts & Culture$2,932,246Health$1,719,000Education$1,180,000Environment$1,118,600Philanthropy$530,000Crime & Legal$105,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $1,381,938 over 7y, 18% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT: $847,570 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $450,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE OUR HERITAGE INC: $430,000 over 8y, 76% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC: $401,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetHARWICH CONSERVATION TRUST: $380,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC: $325,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetRALPH WALDO EMERSON MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $300,000 over 6y, 42% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $265,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $210,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE THOREAU SOCIETY INC: $150,080 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE WAYSIDE INN: $135,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES: $100,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTERRAPRAXIS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetWOMEN MAKE MOVIES INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC: $85,000 over 7y, 15% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE: $70,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGRASSROOTS WILDLIFE CONSERVATION INC: $70,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMUSE FILM & TELEVISION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 78% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $50,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $45,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRACHEL'S NETWORK INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThoreau Farm Trust Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetWright Tavern Legacy Trust: $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCONCORD PRISON OUTREACH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSCHOLARS STRATEGY NETWORK: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $20,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRobbins House Inc: $20,000 over 4y, 8.0% of budgetCONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetRestore The North Woods Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • 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 NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
  • Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TERRAPRAXIS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN MAKE MOVIES 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 ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncHighland Street Conne…Kane Wallace Foundati…Massachusetts Foundat…Ibm International Fou…The Diomedes Foundati…The Loring Wolcott & …Rosse Family Charitab…Pobble Stone Foundati…Community Foundation …Eastern Bank Foundati…Zachary and Lindsey G…
Boston Foundation IncMA32.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 94 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home