· Private foundation
Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $8,000 |
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $5,540 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $2,540 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,250 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN BALLET THEATRE | $1,000 |
| MARGARET JENKINS DANCE CO | $1,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $1,000 |
| WGBH | $1,000 |
| BALLET THEATER FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO | $750 |
| BOSTON ATHENAEUM CONSERVATION MATCH | $550 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $500 |
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 (FY18–24, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
109 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 60 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $119k · revenue +96%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +94%
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY7× · 2018–2024 · $14k · revenue +183%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2018 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- NONATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +69%
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.
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.
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…
Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
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)
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc and the most unlike its peers is Eakins Press Foundation. 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 45 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.
113 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. 113 of the 242 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Ballet of Florida Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST FALMOUTH LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds STREB INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Barr Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Alchemy Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust
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 Robert and Iris Fanger 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Emmanuel Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- West Falmouth Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Revelsinc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 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
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 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.