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Robert Francis Miselis Foundation at a glance

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Robert Francis Miselis 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.

$127k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$129kHuman Services$113kHealth$73kEnvironment$44kArts & Culture$32k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $2k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $125k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Heroes in Transition$35,000
Boston University School of Medicine$30,000
Cape Wellness Collaborative$15,000
Sierra Delta Inc$15,000
Alliance to Protect Nantucket Sound$10,000
Tunnel to Towers Foundation$10,000
Concord Consrvatory of Music$10,000
Red Lily Pond Project Association$2,000
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 (FY23–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SIERRA DELTA INC: $15k → 9%Sierra Delta Inc: $15k → 9%SIERRA DELTA INC: $11k → 9%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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 11 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$355k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+47%

Still filing today

91%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2018–2024 · $71k · revenue +40%
  • CW
    CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $64k · revenue +78%
  • HI
    HEROES IN TRANSITION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $53k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • BU
    Boston University School of Medicin
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • GARY SINISE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +47%
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc

To provide wellness and wellbeing services to veterans and family members across all dimensions and empower them to achieve their full potential. provide outreach services to underserved areas veterans are in.

Public Benefit
5
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
7
Trinity Health of New England Corporation Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.

Health
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
New England Aquarium Corporation

The new england aquarium is a catalyst for global change through public engagement and education, commitment to marine animal conservation, innovative scientific research, and effective advocacy for a vital and vibrant ocean.

Animals
10
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
11
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
12
Northern California Institute for Research and Education Inc

To improve the health and well-being of veterans and the general public by supporting a world-class biomedical research program conducted by ucsf faculty at the san francisco veterans affairs health care system.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Lily Pond Project Assoc 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYBoston University School of Medicine: $30,000 · OtherBoston University School of MedicineKATELYNN'S CLOSET INC: $17,500 · OtherKATELYNN'S CLOSET INCTHORNTON BURGESS SOCIETY INC: $5,700 · Other+1 more: $3,000 · OtherCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $64,000 · HealthCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INCHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $53,000 · HealthHEROES IN TRANSITION INCTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,500 · HealthALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $32,000 · EnvironmentALLIANCE TO …RED LILY POND PROJECT ASSOC INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentRED LILY PON…SIERRA DELTA INC: $41,000 · Human ServicesSIERRA DELT…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $28,000 · EducationCONCORD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $26,000 · Arts & CultureGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$126,700Health$122,500Environment$44,000Human Services$41,000Education$28,000Arts & Culture$26,000Philanthropy$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $70,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC: $64,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHEROES IN TRANSITION INC: $53,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSIERRA DELTA INC: $41,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $32,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $26,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetKATELYNN'S CLOSET INC: $17,500 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetRED LILY POND PROJECT ASSOC INC: $12,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetTHORNTON BURGESS SOCIETY INC: $5,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ZACHARY & ELIZABETH M FISHER CENTER FOR ALZHEIMER'S RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGARY SINISE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Mutual Bancorp Founda…Network for GoodFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Robert Francis Miselis Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert Francis Miselis Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Heroes in Transition Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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 14 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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