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The Penniman Foundation Inc
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.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN | $3,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $1,000 |
| MSPCC MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NE | $1,000 |
| SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| NEADS WORLD CLASS SERVICE DOGS | $750 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO | $750 |
| BROOKLYN HEIGHTS ASSOCATION | $600 |
| OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND | $500 |
| PETS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON | $500 |
| BEACON HILL VILLAGE | $500 |
| AMAGANSETT VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY | $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 (FY18–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
50 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +19%
- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $5k · revenue +313%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON9× · 2017–2025 · $5k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- LLLUPUS LA CO EMERGEone grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue -25%
- UMUKRAINIAN MEDICAL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $3k
- OCOCEAN CITY JOB LOT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k
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 new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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.
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,…
Vision: drive positive change through the power of design and focused activism.mission: aia inspires and empowers architects to improve society and transform the world.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 74 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 FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds LUPUS LA CO EMERGE ↗
- Who funds LONGHOUSE RESERVE ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds AMAGANSETT VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds OLA OF EASTERN LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds PETS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMAGANSETT FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds 3LPlace Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMONORG INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND 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: Andrew Sabin Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Kazickas Family Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 Penniman Foundation Inc 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.
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.
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