· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ACADEMY OF CHARLEMONT | $20,000 |
| YOU CAN VOTE | $20,000 |
| COLUMBIA MEMORIAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| ARLINGTON EATS | $10,500 |
| COLUMBIA COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
| FOOD LINK INC | $10,000 |
| COLUMBIA - GREENE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| TWIN COUNTY RECOVERY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| CRADNELL THEATRE INC | $10,000 |
| MORRIS MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (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 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 9% of T Backer Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 31% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 20%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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…
How this is measured
67 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, 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.
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.
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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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization T Backer Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from T Backer Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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