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Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$323k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0170% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$638kEducation$175kYouth Development$76kRecreation & Sports$35kEmployment$33kCommunity Improvement$18kHuman Services$10kEnvironment$8kCrime & Legal$8kOther$421k
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $190k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPANY ONE$15,000
SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY$15,000
SUMMER SEARCH$15,000
CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION$15,000
WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC$10,000
HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE$10,000
WRITE BOSTON INC$10,000
MASS POETRY$10,000
THEATER OFFENSIVE INC$10,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON$10,000
PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY LAWRENCE$10,000
MAKING MUSIC MATTERS$10,000
ENROOT INC$10,000
ACTORS SHAKESPEARE PROJECT$10,000
ZUMIX INC$10,000
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 (FY25–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%ENROOT INC: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 67 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

67 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

67
25

Total granted

$1.2M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

78%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • AF
    ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +25%
  • PS
    Project STEP Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +67%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $33k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • CS
    CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
  • HS
    HURLEY SCHOOL NEIGHBORHOOD PARTNERS FOR
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • LS
    LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC OF BARD COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $8k

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
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
4
Speakeasy Stage Company Inc

Speakeasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to boston and compel thoughtful conversation. we champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre…

Arts & Culture
5
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
6
Brookline Music School Inc

Brookline music school's mission is to awaken and nurture joy of learning, playing, and listening to music and to create a welcoming musical community for all ages, abilities, and interests.

Arts & Culture
7
Boston City Singers Inc

None

Arts & Culture
8
Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education
9
Boston Baroque Inc

The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.

Arts & Culture
10
Greater Boston Stage Company

We bring vibrant professional theatre and dramatic education beyond the boundaries of boston, featuring world and regional premieres alongside fresh interpretations of familiar work. within this setting,we uniquely foster future artists…

Arts & Culture
11
North End Music & Performing Arts Center

Rooted in boston's north end, our mission is to enrich lives through accessible, exceptional music education and performing arts programs that embrace our vibrant and diverse communities.

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Musica Viva Inc

To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is SafeBae Org 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%2%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%33%35–55yr14%20%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/68
the rest of the field
10%
2,239/21,385

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.

04the grantee network

67 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. 67 of the 99 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
39/67
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INCARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INCProject STEP Inc — $35,000 · Arts & CultureProject STEP IncARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPANY ONE INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $27,500 · Arts & CultureSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — $25,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $22,500 · Arts & Culture+25 more — $308,200 · Arts & Culture+25 moreRAW ART WORKS INC — $30,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC — $27,500 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INCIndividual grant recipient — $22,500 · OtherTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC — $22,500 · OtherOPEN DOOR ARTS — $17,500 · OtherGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER — $17,500 · OtherLONGY SCH OF MUSIC OF BARD COL — $17,500 · OtherBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY — $17,500 · OtherPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 · OtherAPOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY — $15,000 · OtherOPEN DOORS — $15,000 · OtherJOSIAH QUINCY ORCHESTRA — $15,000 · Other+29 more — $213,500 · Other+29 more826 BOSTON INC — $30,000 · Education826 BOSTON IN…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $30,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLE…CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationCODMAN ACADEM…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $15,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM …NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CR…CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationCONSERVATORY …THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY …KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · EducationKIPP MASSACHU…WriteBoston Inc — $10,000 · EducationWriteBoston I…DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 · EducationDEDHAM COUNTR…+3 more — $15,000 · Education+3 moreLITERATIONS CORP — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTH SHORE CHILDRENS CHORUS CORP — $8,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $250 · Youth DevelopmentCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSUMMER SEARCH — $32,500 · EmploymentTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $17,500 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$638,200Other$446,000Education$175,000Youth Development$75,750Recreation & Sports$35,000Employment$32,500Community Improvement$17,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject STEP Inc — $35,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $32,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCOMPANY ONE INC — $32,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $32,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE — $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP — $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC — $17,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSICONNECTS INC — $17,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC — $17,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetZUMIX INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC — $17,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCANTATA SINGERS INC — $15,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetURBANITY DANCE INC — $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC — $12,150 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWriteBoston Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…William E Schrafft an…The Hamilton Company …Edvestors IncRockland Trust Charit…The Klarman Family Fo…Cummings Foundation G…Bushrod H Campbell & …Adelard & Valeda Roy …Yawkey Foundation II
Boston Foundation IncMA66.6× affinity43 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 · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Edvestors Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II

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 Ramsey McCluskey 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Worcester Chamber Music Society Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Cantata Singers Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Urbanity Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hopkinton Center for the Arts — 1% of income from government
  • Paul Revere Memorial Association — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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