· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONCORD INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION INC (THE CONCORD BRIDGE) | $25,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $13,000 |
| ROBERT E LEE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION (DBA STRATFORD HALL) | $10,000 |
| SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY (WBUR PUBLIC RADIO) | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| CONCORD CARLISLE COMMUNITY CHEST | $2,591 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO | $2,500 |
| NEW YORK CITY CENTER | $1,500 |
| SAINT JOSEPH ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CARNEGIE HALL | $900 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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 +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
DUKE UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $263k · revenue +51%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION6× · 2017–2024 · $71k · revenue +34%- SBSWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TFTHE FENN SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue -9%
- CCCARITAS COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +69%
- BPBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $2k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Bard college seeks to provide a challenging academic program and a supportive environment that fosters a collaborative interchange of ideas in the classroom as well as ambition to achieve excellence.
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…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is Retirement Research Foundation Dba Rrf Foundation for Aging. 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 63 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 8% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 50 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds SWEET BRIAR INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CONCORD INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RETIREMENT RESEARCH FOUNDATION DBA RRF FOUNDATION FOR AGING ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE ALTAMONT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds 51 WALDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds ROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds LOUISA MAY ALCOTT'S ORCHARD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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 · 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
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 Katherine U & Ronald W Takvorian Charitable 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.
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.