· Private foundation
The Regan Family 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMass Lowell | $30,000 |
| Boomer Esiason Foundation | $16,000 |
| Dana Farber Cancer Institute | $10,000 |
| MGH Home Base | $7,500 |
| Bentley University | $5,000 |
| Lazarus House | $5,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank | $4,000 |
| Service Credit Union Impact | $2,800 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Lawrence Boys and Girls Club | $1,500 |
| Lowell Boys and Girls Club | $1,500 |
| Travis Mills Foundation | $500 |
| Wreaths Across America | $500 |
| Credit Union Kids at Heart | $300 |
| AFSP | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
25 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 5 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- BEBOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $76k · revenue +14%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $51k · revenue +44%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation4× · 2021–2025 · $16k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- SHSeven Hills Foundation2× · 2024–2025 · $10k
- MGMass General HospitalHome Baseone grant, 2021 · $8k
- NNNAMI Nationalgraduated2× · 2024–2025 · $500 · revenue +181%
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
The Foundation's mission is to provide pathology services primarily to patients at Boston Children's Hospital and at satellite locations. The Foundation carries on and promotes basic and applied medical research and education in the field…
The Organization operates exclusively for the benefit of the charitable purposes of Boston Children's Hospital (the Hospital) and the affiliated Foundations. It works jointly with the Hospital and the Foundations in developing and…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 52 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 BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Wreaths Across America ↗
- Who funds CU KIDS AT HEART INC ↗
- Who funds TYNGSBOROUGH SCHOLARSHIP TR ↗
- Who funds York Public Library ↗
- Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY FOR GREATER NASHUA CORP ↗
- Who funds DCU for Kids ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GLIOBLASTOMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JENNIFERS GIFT OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT 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.
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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 Regan Family 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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