· Private foundation
T Backer Fund Inc
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 $10k31 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $222k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $65,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $30,000 |
| TIME AND SPACE LIMITED THEATRE CO INC | $23,500 |
| YOU CAN VOTE | $20,000 |
| ACADEMY OF CHARLEMONT | $20,000 |
| COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| ARLINGTON EATS | $10,500 |
| CRADNELL THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA - GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| FOOD LINK INC | $10,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIORS PROJECT | $10,000 |
| MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of T Backer Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 20% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
83 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 47 since wound down; 8 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- BCBENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +47%
- CTCRANDELL THEATRE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $156k · revenue +112%
- CHCOLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +519%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $12k
- TRThe Rich Earth Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +181%
- OIOMI INTERNATIONAL ARTS CENTERone grant, 2017 · $7k
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
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…
Artpark & company fosters a transformative world of artistic engagement that explores the human experience, cultivates creativity, and encourages curiosity. our work is informed by a long tradition of discovery, an expectation of artistic…
Caramoor's mission is to enrich the lives of audiences through innovative and diverse musical performances of the highest quality, mentor young professional musicians, and engage children through interactive educational experiences that…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
Create a sustainable performing arts institution that fosters community engagement through a diverse range of programming
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
67 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. 67 of the 121 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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BENNINGTON COLLEGE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CRANDELL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds TIME & SPACE LIMITED THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds YOU CAN VOTE ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SHAKER MUSEUM AND LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CLOSE ENCOUNTERS WITH MUSIC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN COUNTY RECOVERY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARSONS DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER HUDSON PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON EATS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA COUNTY YOUTH THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TECH VALLEY CENTER OF GRAVITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-VILLAGE FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Mary Lyon Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HANTZ FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONCERTS IN THE VILLAGE ↗
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: Hrbt Foundation · Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · The Alexander and Marjorie Hover Foundation · Eugene M Lang Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · Patricia E and Joseph W Phelan Family Foundation Inc · The Arthur and Eileen Newman Family Foundation · The Sally S and Robert K Phelan Legacy Foundation Inc
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 T Backer Fund Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mary Lyon Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Bennington College Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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