· Private foundation
The David and Kathleen Baum 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE DAVID AND KATHLEEN BAUM FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH SOUTHERN FLORIDA | $42,000 |
| CAMILLIUS HOUSE | $25,328 |
| CURETIVITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $12,000 |
| FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $11,500 |
| EAGLES AUTISM FOUNDATION | $1,350 |
| GOFUNDME | $1,050 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH NETWORK | $1,000 |
| EVERLOVED | $550 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS | $515 |
| DOLPHINS CYCLING CHALLENGE | $500 |
| UGIFT 529 | $500 |
| PLAIN JAINE FOUNDATION | $250 |
| ANIMAL CARE CENTER OF ST JOHN | $250 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $180 |
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 (FY17–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $57k · revenue +224%
COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $53k · revenue +635%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $43k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- PHPELICAN HARBORone grant, 2024 · $9k
- YCYOUTH CITIES INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $5k
- NENEW ERA FUNDone grant, 2018 · $4k
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 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.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Miracle Network and the most unlike its peers is University of Miami. 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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 90 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 ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SOUTHERN FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Curetivity Foundation ↗
- Who funds St John Revolving Fund ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds OFF THE ROCKS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOVE CITY STRONG INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN SCHOOL OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORAL BAY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds University of Miami ↗
- Who funds EAGLES AUTISM CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
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: Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good
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 David and Kathleen Baum 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 Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.