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· Private foundation
RAE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$56k
Granted FY2023
6
Grants
1
Communities
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Education$102kHuman Services$97kYouth Development$86kPhilanthropy$7kOther$92k
02FY2023 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $47k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS$20,000
- EPIPHANY SCHOOL$17,000
- SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$10,000
- PINE STREET INN$8,000
- PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS$775
- LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE$100
02The need
03
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 54% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$381k · 11 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
11
1
Total granted
$381k
$3k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+61%
-4%
Still filing today
64%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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
EPIPHANY SCHOOL7× · 2017–2023 · $82k · revenue +61%- SBSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE7× · 2017–2023 · $52k · revenue +110%
PINE STREET INN6× · 2017–2023 · $45k · revenue +90%
Funded once
COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONSone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
The Boston Home Inc
To improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.
Health
2
Greater Boston Real Estate Board
Grants to charitable 501(c) organizations whose activities are conducted in the Greater Boston area.
Human Services
3
Historic Boston Incorporated
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4
Trustees of Boston College
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Education
5
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
6
Greater Boston Council On
Philanthropy
7
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum
The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.
Education
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Welfare Benefit Plans Trust
To provide health and life insurance benefits to covered eligible retirees of massachusetts institute of technology and their dependents, as well as individuals receiving long-term disability benefits for at least three years.
Membership Benefit
10
Massachusetts Higher Education
Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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11
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
12
New England College
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Council On Foundations 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
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$102,000Human Services$97,000Other$92,400Youth Development$85,700Philanthropy$6,500
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 TRINITY BOSTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EPIPHANY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GORDON-CONWELL THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOUNDATIONS ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE ↗
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.
Boston After School & Beyond IncMA13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 organisation RAE FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043181652 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to Rae Family Charitable Foundation Trust through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
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