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The Bassick Family Foundation

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.

$188k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$413kArts & Culture$327kInternational$165kReligion$108kPhilanthropy$53kFood & Nutrition$35kHuman Services$29kEducation$13kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $103k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$4,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE$50,000
UMASS MEDICAL -HUDSON HOAGLAND SOCIETY$45,000
WORCESTER ART MUSUEM$25,000
THE REDEMPTORIS MATER HOUSE OF FORMATION INC$22,000
15-40 CONNECTION$11,375
WORLD VISION H20$6,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$5,000
BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC$5,000
NEADS$4,000
SEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION$3,000
HERITAGE MUSEUM AND GARDENS$2,500
ST JOHN'S FOOD FOR THE POOR$2,000
PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC$2,000
THE HANOVER THEATER$1,500
THE JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION$1,500
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $5k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $5k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $3k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $3k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $3k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $2k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $2k → 8%PROJECT JUST BECAUSE INC: $2k → 8%NEADS: $4k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 20 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +63% for the ones you funded once.

20 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$1.2M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+63%

Still filing today

55%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHealthInternationalHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationOther

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

  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · $243k · revenue +80%
  • DI
    DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +100%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    7× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • EH
    EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • NP
    NE PGA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Providence Children's Museum

The mission of the providence children's museum is to inspire and celebrate learning through active play and exploration. the museum welcomes children and adults of all ages and backgrounds and from all communities although its focus is on…

Arts & Culture
2
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…

Health
3
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

4
The Childrens Museum

Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…

Arts & Culture
5
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

6
Hampshire Country School

Hampshire country school is a place of possibilities for high-ability, neurodiverse students enrolling in later elementary or middle school who have not found success in traditional educational environments. hampshire country school offers…

7
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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

9
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
10
Chico Children's Museum

None

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Falmouth Historical Society Inc

The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.

Unclassified

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is Juniper Outreach Foundation. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $310,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient — $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTHE REDEMPTORIS MATER HOUSE OF FORMATION INC — $70,000 · OtherTHE REDEMPTORIS MATER HOUSE OF FORMATION INCCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION — $37,900 · OtherSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATIONTHE REDEMPTORIS MATER SEMINARY — $36,000 · OtherTHE REDEMPTORIS MATER SEMINARY+8 more — $72,900 · Other+8 moreWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $242,500 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBRIDGE INCCOLLINGS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCOLLINGS FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCALMER CHOICE INC — $71,000 · HealthCALMER CHOICE I…DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC — $66,700 · HealthDETECTOGETHER I…Children's Hospital Corporation — $45,500 · HealthChildren's Hosp…BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 · InternationalBE LIKE BRIT…+1 more — $2,000 · InternationalProject Just Because Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesNEADS INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesCAPE KID MEALS INC — $6,000 · Food & NutritionJUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION — $5,500 · Food & NutritionTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $2,500 · Education
Other$666,800Arts & Culture$322,500Health$183,200International$152,000Human Services$29,000Food & Nutrition$11,500Education$2,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM — $242,500 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetCALMER CHOICE INC — $71,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC — $66,700 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $45,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetProject Just Because Inc — $25,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE KID MEALS INC — $6,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION — $5,500 over 4y, 11% of budgetNEADS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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 WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
  • Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds CALMER CHOICE INC
  • Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation
  • Who funds Project Just Because Inc
  • Who funds COLLINGS FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC
  • Who funds EAGLE HILL FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTSINC
  • Who funds CAPE KID MEALS INC
  • Who funds JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEADS INC
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
  • Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC

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.

Highland Street Connection and SubsidiariesMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Coghlin Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable 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 The Bassick 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Calmer Choice Inc14% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc4% of income from government
  • Neads Inc1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum1% of income from government
  • Project Just Because Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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