· Private foundation
The Boeckman Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $175,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY TEXAS | $100,000 |
| NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERV | $10,000 |
| ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| WINNISQUAM WATERSHED NETWORK | $5,000 |
| FLORIDA CRAFT ART | $5,000 |
| THE PHILANTHROPY CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY FLORIDA | $5,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE PHILANTHROPY CONNECTION | $5,000 |
| TAMPA BAY WATCH | $5,000 |
| ZUMIX | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of your 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 16% of The Boeckman Family Foundation’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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH7× · 2017–2024 · $577k · revenue +44%
- PVPARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC4× · 2017–2020 · $427k · revenue +84%
- DADENVER ART MUSEUM4× · 2017–2020 · $415k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- SSEWANEEone grant, 2022 · $85k
- SSSUNFLOWER SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +8%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLASone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The witte museum inspires people to shape the future of texas through transformative and relevant experiences in nature, science and culture.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Dallas contemporary presents art in a forum that cultivates artists, ignites learning and inspires the community. dallas contemporary is a non-collecting art museum presenting new and challenging ideas from regional, national and…
The museum of contemporary art san diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
Mission: the mission of san diego opera is to deliver exceptional performances and exciting, accessible programs to diverse audiences, focusing on community partnerships, and the transformative and expressive power of the human voice. as…
To enrich life by perpetuating tropical plants, ecosystems and cultural heritage through discovery, scientific research, conservation, and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Call. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 85 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 UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON VOICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DENVER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COASTAL FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds Florida CraftArt Inc ↗
- Who funds The Philanthropy Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds NUEVO MEXICO PROFUNDO ↗
- Who funds ST PETERSBURG ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TAMPA BAY WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE SANTA FE OPERA ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds SUNFLOWER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD ↗
- Who funds Dallas Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds BAT CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds DALLAS COUNTY HERITAGE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DALLAS PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL AND NORTHERN NH INC ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMMONS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
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: The Dallas Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Eugene McDermott Foundation · The Hutson-Wiley and Echevarria Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · George a & Nancy P Shutt Foundation · J Crayton Pruitt Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Tampa Bay Inc · Hal & Diane Brierley Foundation · Vin and Caren Prothro Foundation
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 Boeckman 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.
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eckerd College — 0% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 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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