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The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable 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.

$90k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2024
15
Organizations funded FY2023
40%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 19
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$1.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 40% of the organizations The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving20$90k35%
FY202315$200k40%
FY202210$34k20%
FY202110$76k30%
FY202019$101k37%
FY201913$90k23%
FY201817$64k76%
FY20177$25kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$347kArts & Culture$232kPublic Benefit$45kScience & Tech$23kHuman Services$15kEnvironment$14kSocial Science$12kPhilanthropy$9kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
OH
CA
VA
NC
DC
AL
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 37 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($107k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDuke University: $262,984 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $70,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Briar Institute: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Concord Independent Foundation Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetStratford Hall: $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $17,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $13,802 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fenn School: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConcord Carlisle Foundation Inc: $12,190 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRetirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging: $11,937 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Antiquarian Society D/B/A Concord Museum: $6,450 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCaritas Communities Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew England Conservatory of Music: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $4,040 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Search: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Altamont School: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York City Center Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Carnegie Hall Corporation: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArthritis Foundation Inc: $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budget51 Walden Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLouisa May Alcott's Orchard House Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRoundabout Theatre Company Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $360 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetConcord Land Conservation Trust: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History: $164 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLacrosse the Nations: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budget54 Below Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $51 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 35.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncMA17.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Jaket Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation

How much does The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation give?
The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $89,669 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Arts & Culture (33%), Public Benefit (6%).
Who are The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Duke University ($263k), Smithsonian Institution ($71k), Sweet Briar Institute ($48k).
Does The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation, Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation.
Where is The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation based?
The Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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