· Private foundation
Savage 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $109k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Maine Central Institute | $50,000 |
| University of Maine | $20,000 |
| Northern Light Health | $20,000 |
| Waldo County YMCA | $20,000 |
| New England Baptist Hospital | $20,000 |
| Boston Medical Center | $16,667 |
| Bellforge Arts Center | $12,500 |
| Raw Arts | $7,500 |
| Girls Inc | $7,500 |
| Families First | $6,000 |
| Community Art Center | $6,000 |
| Charles River Watershed Association | $5,000 |
| North Shore Medical Center | $5,000 |
| Penobscot Marine Museum | $5,000 |
| Katie Brown Educational Program | $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 (FY17–25, $261k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against -23% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- WCWaldo County YMCA9× · 2017–2025 · $174k · revenue +56%
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION6× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +88%- NENEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- TCTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -23%
- TSTower Schoolone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WSWAYFINDER SCHOOLSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +46%
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
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.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Maine Behavioral Healthcare provides a seamless and compassionate continuum of care through a community of providers collaborating to promote recovery and the overall mental and physical well-being of those we are privileged to serve.
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,…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Epiphany School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Katie Brown Educational Program Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 Maine Central Institute ↗
- Who funds Waldo County YMCA ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds OASIS HEALTH NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFE FLIGHT NETWORK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds KATIE BROWN EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WAYFINDER SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Waldo County General Hospital ↗
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 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Haven Trust · Middlecott Foundation · Davis Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Savage 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.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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.