· Private foundation
Rabe Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSUEM OF SCIENCE | $36,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| WALKER HOME AND SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $15,000 |
| UNICEF USA | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $10,000 |
| ROSIES PLACE | $6,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $3,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $2,500 |
| ENVIRONMENT DEFENSE FUND | $2,500 |
| HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +44% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
43 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- TBTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON6× · 2019–2025 · $541k · revenue +123%- WIWALKER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- SSAMARTANSone grant, 2022 · $4k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -40%- EAEDF ACTIONone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 63 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 THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Rabe Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.