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Rabe Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$186k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$36k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$1.4MAnimals$615kHealth$236kInternational$79kArts & Culture$52kFood & Nutrition$38kEnvironment$33kHousing & Shelter$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $141k
$3,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON$5,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION$5,000
PINE STREET INN$3,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$2,500
ENVIRONMENT DEFENSE FUND$2,500
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%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

IL
NY
MA
CT
RI
CA
UT
KY
TN
DC
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.4M · 43 repeat orgs$23k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
18

Total granted

$2.4M
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+3%

Still filing today

70%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsInternationalEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • TB
    THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +43%
  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
    6× · 2019–2025 · $541k · revenue +123%
  • WI
    WALKER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • S
    SAMARTANS
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -40%
  • EA
    EDF ACTION
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
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 Institute of Technology

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.

Education
2
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
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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5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
6
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
7
American Gas Association

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…

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8
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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9
Ceres Inc

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…

Environment
10
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
The Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Inc

To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.

Health
12
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 63 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/41
Grantees still filing
32/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,185,000 · EducationTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INCWALKER INC: $105,000 · EducationWALKER INC+2 more: $15,590 · EducationANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $540,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BO…+6 more: $53,343 · Animals+6 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD: $64,000 · OtherPLANNED PARE…DANA-FARBER INC: $50,000 · OtherDANA-FARBER …GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $15,020 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $14,568 · OtherHUMANE SOCIETY: $12,000 · OtherEARTHJUSTICE: $17,500 · OtherEARTHJUSTICEENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 · OtherNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,500 · OtherROSIE'S PLACE INC: $14,000 · OtherPINE STREET INN INC: $11,000 · Other+27 more: $63,606 · Other+27 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $61,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $21,500 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $13,500 · HealthSAMARITANS INC: $6,406 · Health+4 more: $7,500 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 · Community ImprovementUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $52,595 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,500 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $3,000 · International+1 more: $2,500 · InternationalMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $76,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$1,305,590Animals$593,843Other$290,194Health$110,406Community Improvement$90,000International$77,095Arts & Culture$76,000

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 budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $1,185,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $540,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetWALKER INC: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $90,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $76,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $61,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $52,595 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHESTNUT HILL SCHOOL: $15,075 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $15,020 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $13,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $13,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOR ANIMALS INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITANS INC: $6,406 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResilient Coders Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARFAN FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMy Dog Eats First Inc: $1,043 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC: $516 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $263 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 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 OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN 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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Cambridge Savings Cha…American Tower Corpor…Combined Jewish Phila…The Bank of America C…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Boston Foundation IncMA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Rabe Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rabe Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 63 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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