· Private foundation
The Foss 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
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 $10k6 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $338k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP | $95,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| PITTSFIELD MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL | $36,333 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| NH FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM | $30,000 |
| CONCORD HOSPITAL TRUST | $30,000 |
| CHAD | $25,000 |
| MSPCA ANGELL | $25,000 |
| THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE PITTSFIELD PLAYERS | $15,000 |
| KREMPLES CENTER | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY20–25, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $168k 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
- CHConcord Hospital Trust7× · 2019–2025 · $181k · revenue +186%
- NHNew Hampshire Catholic Charities6× · 2020–2025 · $99k · revenue +14%
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS5× · 2020–2025 · $80k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CENT NHone grant, 2024 · $15k
- 1C1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $10k
- DDAREone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
Mt. ascutney hospital and health center's mission is to improve the lives of those we serve.
Southern New Hampshire Health is dedicated to providing exceptional care that improves the health and well-being of individuals and communities we serve.
Support and further the charitable activities of Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, Wentworth-Douglass Physician Corporation and Wentworth-Douglass Hospital & Health Foundation by being operated in connection with said organizations.
Rescue and re-adoption of dogs and cats.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Concord Hospital is a charitable organization which exists to meet the health needs of individuals within the communities it serves.
The mission of APD Lifecare Center is to improve the health and well-being of our community
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and the most unlike its peers is Pittsfield Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 31 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 Concord Hospital Trust ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Catholic Charities ↗
- Who funds PITTSFIELD YOUTH WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds PITTSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDLY KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID'S HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PITTSFIELD PLAYERS ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Foss 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.