· Private foundation
The Menemsha Family Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k23 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $662k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY | $100,000 |
| CENTER ON BUDGET | $50,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASS BAY & MERRIMACK VALLEY | $50,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $30,000 |
| NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION | $30,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE | $25,000 |
| ECONOMIC POLICY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT | $20,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $20,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MASS | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $20,000 |
| LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $20,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
85 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC6× · 2019–2025 · $165k · revenue +78%
- HAHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY6× · 2019–2025 · $163k · revenue +4%
- TCTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM6× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +136%
Funded once
- WCWELLESLEY COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $100k
- FOFriends of the Children - Bostonone grant, 2021 · $25k
- BOBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -30%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. 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 41 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 121 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 United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL EMPLOYMENT LAW PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABORTION FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH ALLIANCE FOR LAW AND SOCIAL ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LAW AND SOCIAL POLICY ↗
- Who funds ACLU FOUNDATION OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PROVIDE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARYLAND FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Hopewell Fund · The Ford Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · New Venture Fund · Lebowitz-Aberly Family Foundation · Point32health Foundation 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 Menemsha Family Fund 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.
- Tides for Reproductive Freedom Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Parks and People Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
- Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.