· Private foundation
Subak 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| GUILFORD COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BERMUDA COMMUNITY FND | $36,750 |
| THE OCEAN FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| FRANKLIN INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ONTARIO ART GALLERY | $25,000 |
| M&A HOTLINE (POSSIBILITY LABS SPONSORED) | $25,000 |
| I NEED AN A (SOCIAL GOOD FUND SPONSORED) | $25,000 |
| PLAN C PILLS (POSSIBILITY LABS SPONSOR) | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT FBO PRODUCTIVE FUTURES | $25,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| PROJECT HOME | $10,000 |
| CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MASTERWORKS MUSEUM | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 20%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 7% of Subak Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TOTHE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $150k · revenue +24%
- TFTHE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +60%
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $70k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- UCULSTER COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $36k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -79%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS CANADIAN NATUREone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
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 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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Fisk university produces graduates from diverse backgrounds with the integrity and intellect required for substantive contributions to society. our curriculum is grounded in the liberal arts. our faculty and administrators emphasize the…
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 59 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GUILFORD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE OSBORNE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE FRANKLIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WILD EARTH WILDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY PHILADELPHIA HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds The Ocean Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds From The Heart Productions ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL FOR CANADIAN AMERICAN RELATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
- Who funds HOT DOCS FOUNDATION USA INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Subak Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Subak Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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