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The Muskin Family Foundation at a glance

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The Muskin 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.

$34k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$150kHealth$128kEducation$21kEmployment$6kCrime & Legal$6kArts & Culture$5kHuman Services$5kHousing & Shelter$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
$2,600
Median grant
4
States reached
$560k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL$13,000
NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE$10,000
ST SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH$5,000
CHRON'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION$2,600
WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE$1,037
VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS$1,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $92k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $12k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE: $10k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
NC
AL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 13 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$306k
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+33%

Still filing today

54%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NA
    NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $92k · revenue +18%
  • CC
    CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +15%
  • VL
    VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • WR
    WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -18%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
7
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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8
Npr International Operations Inc

Npr international operations, inc. ("nprio") supports the international newsgathering activities of national public radio, inc. through bureaus and offices established locally in foreign countries.

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9
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
10
Us Digital Response

U.s. digital response is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that helps governments, nonprofits, and public entities respond quickly to critical public needs. the organization serves the public by leveraging a network of pro bono…

Public Safety & Disaster
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
12
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Girls Code Inc; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CATHEDRAL: $103,680 · OtherHOLY TRINITY ORTHODOX CATHEDRALST SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCH: $43,000 · OtherST SAVA SERBIAN ORTHODOX CHURCHVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC: $11,300 · OtherVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC+18 more: $38,684 · Other+18 moreNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $92,415 · Human ServicesNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE IN…WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $10,000 · EducationEL RIO COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $8,520 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $2,500 · EducationCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · HealthEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $6,000 · Civil RightsNovak Djokovic Foundation USA: $2,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 · InternationalHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $1,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: $500 · EnvironmentASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $250 · Environment
Other$196,664Human Services$92,415Education$21,020Health$20,500Civil Rights$6,000International$3,000Youth Development$1,500Environment$750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC: $92,415 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC: $11,300 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEL RIO COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $8,520 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $3,537 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNovak Djokovic Foundation USA: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,074 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NEW AVENUES TO INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds VISTA LIFE INNOVATIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RESERVE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds EL RIO COMMUNITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
  • Who funds Novak Djokovic Foundation USA ↗
  • Who funds HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds WIREGRASS HOPE GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗

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.

National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA10.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Muskin Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Muskin Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Vista Life Innovations Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 32 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
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By state
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