· Private foundation
Richard and Diane Schmalensee Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RESOURCES FOR THE FUTURE | $10,000 |
| MASSBAY CC FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MGH GENITOURINARY CANCER RESEARCH FUND | $10,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR | $5,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $3,500 |
| PIONEER INST FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH | $2,500 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| CAMBODIAN VILLAGE FUND | $1,250 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $1,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–22, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 14 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; $1k 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
BOSTON BALLET INC7× · 2019–2025 · $133k · revenue +56%- PIPIONEER INSTITUTE INC6× · 2019–2025 · $75k · revenue +117%
- WCWellesley College6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- GUGET US PPEone grant, 2020 · $2k
- MCMASS COVIDS RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $2k
FAMILY PROMISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +63%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Education and Research
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopewell 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 52 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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Resources for the Future Inc ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds CAMBODIAN VILLAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health ↗
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 · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Richard and Diane Schmalensee 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Family Promise Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.