· Private foundation
The Frisbie 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.
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 $10k12 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $183k
- $250k+1 grant · $377k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $376,500 |
| HARVARD VARSITY CLUB | $30,000 |
| BASIC FUND | $25,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN PROMISE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| JOEY O'DONNELL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOCH CENTER | $10,000 |
| FIND THE CAUSE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROTCH-JONES-DUFF HOUSE AND GARDEN MUSEUM INC | $5,000 |
| JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% 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.
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 +31% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- JMJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $240k · revenue +35%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $131k · revenue +185%
- HVHARVARD VARSITY CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HSHARVARD SOLAR GEOENGINEERING RESEARCH PROGRAM FUNDone grant, 2022 · $177k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF LEKET ISRAEL INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -17%
- CCCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
The american astronomical society (aas), established in 1899, is the major organization of professional astronomers in north america. the basic objective of the aas is to promote the advancement of astronomy and closely related branches of…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Anderson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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.
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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: Boston Foundation Inc · The David and Elizabeth Long Foundation · The Krimendahlsaint-Amand Foundation · Nivin and Duncan Macmillan Foundation · St Clair Charitable Trust · Legatus Foundation · CMB Foundation · Ethel D Colket Foundation · Fore River Foundation · Colket Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Eastern Bank 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 Frisbie 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.