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Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin at a glance

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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
States reached
$150
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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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
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150
Median grant
2
States reached
$212k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Newton at Home$150
UNH Foundation$25
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50 → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $2k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25 → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $500 → 16%Newton at Home: $150 → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $100 → 8%NEWTON AT HOME: $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL: $500 → 8%SPRINGWELL: $500 → 8%SPRINGWELL: $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL: $100 → 8%SPRINGWELL: $100 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34k · 34 repeat orgs$2k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
19

Total granted

$34k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+29%

Still filing today

53%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $6k · revenue +173%
  • SI
    SPRINGWELL INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $1k · revenue +205%
  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $1k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +36%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHILANTHROPY
    one grant, 2022 · $500
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE MESSIAH
    2× · 2017–2018 · $100
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
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
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
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
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
6
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
7
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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8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
23/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $5,150 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREMGH FUND - MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $3,000 · OtherMGH FUND - MASS GENERAL HOSPITALNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $1,900 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITALEMERSON HOUSE - GOSNOLD ON CAPE COD: $1,100 · OtherEMERSON HOUSE - GOSNOLD ON CAPE CODHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPARD: $950 · OtherNEWTON FREE LIBRARY: $700 · Other+30 more: $5,376 · Other+30 moreSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $6,100 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INCSPRINGWELL INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesSPRINGWELL INCCompassionate Care ALS Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesCompassionate Care ALS IncPINE STREET INN INC: $400 · Human ServicesNEWTON AT HOME INC: $350 · Human Services+2 more: $100 · Human ServicesLASELL UNIVERSITY: $2,200 · EducationLASELL UNIV…Hartwick College: $1,100 · EducationHartwick Co…BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $250 · EducationBRIMMER AND…+1 more: $25 · EducationLAHEY CLINIC INC: $1,200 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600 · HealthTHE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation: $196 · Arts & CultureCAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25 · PhilanthropyVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $900 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $60 · Housing & Shelter
Other$18,176Human Services$9,250Education$3,575Health$1,800Arts & Culture$1,196Philanthropy$1,025Housing & Shelter$960

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 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $40 over 2y, 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
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.

  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds LAHEY CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Hartwick College ↗
  • Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPE AND ISLANDS UNITED WAY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COLLEGE LIGHT OPERA COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON AT HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PEOPLE FOR CATS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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 E…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert J Cantin and Pat Ryan-Cantin. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 4% of income from government
  • Newton at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2rely on government for over half their income
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 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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