· Private foundation
Oristaglio Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k37 grants · $71k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALT LICK INCUBATOR | $75,000 |
| ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $29,300 |
| ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $29,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ETRUSCAN PRESS | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| VIA ART FUND INC | $15,000 |
| MASS MUSEUM OF CONTEMORARY ART | $10,500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $10,465 |
| CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL - STEPPING STRONG | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE | $10,000 |
| NASHOBA LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $8,575 |
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 (FY17–24, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 18 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $421k · revenue +582%
ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +56%- EPETRUSCAN PRESS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $173k · revenue +441% · 67% of their budget
Funded once
- MFMUSICARES FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $75k · revenue +210%
- ININNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
- MGMASS GENERALone grant, 2020 · $16k
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.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
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 boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Boston Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
93 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. 93 of the 160 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 ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASBURY PARK MUSIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ETRUSCAN PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SALT LICK INCUBATOR INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL CORP ↗
- Who funds VIA ART FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MUSICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON LANDMARKS ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF MOP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD STREET YOUTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Malcolm Gibbs Foundation Inc · The Feigenbaum Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Barr Foundation · Shoval Foundation · Alchemy Foundation · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000
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 Oristaglio Family 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.
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Asbury Park Music Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Berkshire Childrens Chorus Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berkshire Garden Center Inc Dba Berkshire Botanical Garden Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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