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The Robert B and Barbara C Singer Family Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$26k
Granted FY2018
29
Grants FY2018
9
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it funds
01FY2018 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k28 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
$100
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$15,000
WORCESTER ACADEMY$2,000
GOUCHER COLLEGE SOCIETY$2,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$1,000
DOUBLE H RANCH$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CONGREGATION SONS OF ISRAEL$400
Individual grant recipient$117
ARTS CENTER OF THE LOW COUNTRY$117
VIM BERKSHIRES$100
HOSPICE OF LOW COUNTRY$100
BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF BLUFFTON$100
PENN FUND$100
WOUNDED WARRIORS$100
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%TIDEWELL HOSPICE: $100 → 9%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

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MA
OR
PA
MD
SC
DC
TX
FL
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 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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
American College of Lifestyle Medicine

Mission statement: advancing evidence-based lifestyle medicine to treat, reverse and prevent non-communicable, chronic disease. vision statement: a nation and world wherein lifestyle medicine is the foundation of health and all healthcare.…

Health
3
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
6
Truman Medical Center Incorporated

University health is an academic health center providing accessible, state-of-the-art quality healthcare to our community regardless of the ability to pay.

Health
7
New York Society for the Relief of the Ruptured and Crippled Maintaining the

The mission of hospital for special surgery is to provide the highest quality patient care, improve mobility, and enhance the quality of life for all and to advance the science of orthopedic surgery, rheumatology, and their related…

Health
8
Wellspan Surgery & Rehabilitation Hospital

Wellspan surgery and rehabilitation hospital's mission is "supporting the journey to optimal health and independence by providing exceptional orthopedic, spine and acute rehabilitative care in a healing environment and coordinated through…

Health
9
Hawaii Medical Association

Hawaii medical association is dedicated to serving physicians, their patients and community through representation, advocacy, and public service. core activities: advocacy, education

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10
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
11
American Association of Colleges of Osteopathic Medicine

Aacom leads and advocates for the osteopathic medical education community to improve the health of the public. aacom represents and advances the continuum of medical education by: supporting our member institutions as they educate the…

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Double H Hole in the Woods Ranch Inc; the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

11 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. 11 of the 28 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGOUCHER COLLEGE SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherGOUCHER COLLEGE SOCIETYIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherSHRINERS HOSPITAL: $1,000 · Other+15 more: $1,834 · Other+15 moreWORCESTER ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationWORCESTER…THE LITERACY CENTER: $100 · EducationSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 · HealthNAMI National: $100 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $100 · HealthDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $100 · Human ServicesThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 · Arts & Culture
Other$20,834Education$2,100Health$1,400Recreation & Sports$1,000Human Services$100Arts & Culture$100

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 budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERACY CENTER: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIDEWELL HOSPICE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $100 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 WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds BLUFFTON SELF HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LITERACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds TIDEWELL HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds NAMI National ↗
  • Who funds PALMETTO ANIMAL LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
  • Who funds The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN11.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving 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 Robert B and Barbara C Singer Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert B and Barbara C Singer Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Tidewell Hospice Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 28 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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