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Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$789kEducation$236kYouth Development$203kEmployment$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kRecreation & Sports$45kHealth$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
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.
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
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

  • 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%
  • AC
    Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director
    one grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -6%
  • CL
    CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
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
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
40/67
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMerrimack Repertory Theatre 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 · OtherBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY: $17,500 · OtherGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER: $17,500 · OtherOPEN DOOR ARTS: $17,500 · OtherLONGY SCH OF MUSIC OF BARD COL: $17,500 · OtherOPEN DOORS: $15,000 · OtherAPOLLINAIRE THEATRE COMPANY: $15,000 · OtherPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $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…CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationCONSERVATORY …SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $15,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM …NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · EducationNOTRE DAME CR…CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationCODMAN ACADEM…WriteBoston Inc: $10,000 · EducationWriteBoston I…KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 · EducationKIPP MASSACHU…DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationDEDHAM COUNTR…THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY …+3 more: $15,000 · Education+3 moreLITERATIONS CORP: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $35,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetProject STEP Inc: $35,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $32,500 over 4y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSANDRA FEINSTEIN-GAMM THEATRE: $25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP: $22,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC: $17,500 over 2y, 31% of budgetZUMIX INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSICONNECTS INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWORCESTER CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY INC: $17,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT: $17,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCANTATA SINGERS INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetURBANITY DANCE INC: $15,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 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 budgetWriteBoston Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetENROOT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATREZONE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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…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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 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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