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Ro Family 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Green Mountain Horse Association | $25,000 |
| Cooley Dickinson Hospital | $15,000 |
| Bay State Health | $15,000 |
| Abortion Rights Fund of Western MA | $15,000 |
| Treehouse Foundation | $10,000 |
| The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts | $10,000 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Hampshire County | $10,000 |
| Safe Passage Inc | $10,000 |
| Tapestry Health Systems | $8,000 |
| Northampton Neighbors | $7,500 |
| Community Action Pioneer Valley | $7,500 |
| Behavioral Health Network Inc | $6,000 |
| Child Advocacy Center of Franklin County | $5,000 |
| Servicenet | $5,000 |
| New England Public Media | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- SPSAFE PASSAGE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +10%
- TTTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $52k · revenue +160%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- CYCommunity YMCA of Greenfieldone grant, 2024 · $5k
- NNEPMone grant, 2024 · $5k
- THThe Hampshire County YMCone grant, 2021 · $3k
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.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
To operate a community health center providing a full range of health care services including medical, dental, vision, mental health and elder services to residents of the north end, charlestown and west end of boston, massachusetts.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
The mission of the northeast human resources association is to lead, advance and influence the management of human resources and its impact on organizational success.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Empowering our members to drive excellence and achieve the highest value in healthcare delivery and the consumer experience.
The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
We are dedicated to delivering outstanding home health and hospice services that enrich the lives of the people we serve.
To bring together and support diverse voices to promote health equity in the 27 cities and towns of north central massachusetts.
The mission of north adams regional hospital is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, & personalized environment.
To serve as a model community access organization providing programming and educational opportunities to the community through all means technologically available.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tapestry 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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 41 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 SAFE PASSAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PIONEER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN HORSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DIFFvelopment ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BEHAVIORAL HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DAKIN PIONEER VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JAM CYCLING FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON ARTS COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds TAPESTRY HEALTH SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds Northampton Community Music Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE & COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICENET INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HOLYOKE HOCKEY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Northampton Jazz Festival Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR NEW AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC ↗
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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of the Franklin & Hampshire Region · The Zoe Foundation · Lennox Foundation · The Mo and Cher Willems Foundation · Health New England Inc · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts 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 Ro 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.
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Servicenet Inc — 82% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Tapestry Health Systems Inc — 60% of income from government
- Safe Passage Inc — 55% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Center for New Americans Inc — 45% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Northampton Arts Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shakespeare & Company Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health 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.
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