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Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$175
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
2
Organizations funded FY2023
50%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$150
Largest grant, FY2023
$150
Organizations funded a year
2 to 31
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
2
Total assets, FY2023
$212k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 50% of the organizations Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20232$17550%
FY202213$5k8%
FY202118$5k17%
FY202031$8k19%
FY201931$8k13%
FY201827$5k37%
FY201729$6kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$11kHealth$10kHousing & Shelter$8kArts & Culture$3kHuman Services$2kPhilanthropy$1kFood & Nutrition$550Religion$500Other$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($17k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSaint Francis House Inc: $6,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLasell University: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSpringwell Inc: $1,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLahey Clinic Inc: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHartwick College: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCape and Islands United Way Inc: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe College Light Opera Company Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNewton at Home Inc: $350 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrimmer and May School: $250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $196 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Service Organizations Inc: $120 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $60 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeople for Cats a Non-Profit Corporation: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKents Hill School: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaban Improvement Society Inc: $36 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Club: $34 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Parks Conservation Association: $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $16 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA7.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin

How much does Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin give?
Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin reported 2 grants totaling $175 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (29%), Health (28%), Housing & Shelter (21%).
Who are Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Saint Francis House Inc ($6k), Lasell University ($2k), Springwell Inc ($1k).
Does Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin based?
Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin is based in MA.

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 55 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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