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The Roux 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $83k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $345k
- $250k+2 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,100,000 |
| HARPSWELL HERITAGE LAND TRUST | $650,000 |
| THE STATION FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $70,000 |
| A PLACE TO START | $50,000 |
| FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL | $25,000 |
| COASTAL MAINE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $25,000 |
| FOCUS MAINE | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RYAN CALLAHAN FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MGEF | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–24, $340k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +63% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $655k 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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2020–2025 · $30M · revenue +63%- IFINITIATIVE FOR DIGITAL ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCES4× · 2019–2022 · $4.4M · revenue +563% · 75% of their budget
- TSTHE STATION FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $690k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- FCFAUQUIER COUNTY PARKS & RECREATION DEPARTMENTone grant, 2018 · $262k
- USUNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INCone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +12%
- CLCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $175k · revenue 0%
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.
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 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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 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…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Maine Farmland Trust protects farmland, supports farmers, and advances the future of farming.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for a Strong Maine Economy and the most unlike its peers is Initiative for Digital Engineering and Life Sciences. 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 32 years old; the field is 17. 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.
60 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. 60 of the 83 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR DIGITAL ENGINEERING AND LIFE SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds THE STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVING KIDS' CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds A PLACE TO START ↗
- Who funds Olympia Snowe Women's Leadership Institute ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Southern Maine ↗
- Who funds ROYAL RIVER COMMUNITY PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FULL PLATES FULL POTENTIAL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Vernon Virtuosi Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A STRONG MAINE ECONOMY ↗
- Who funds Portland Museum of Art ↗
- Who funds LILAC PRESERVATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds 317 Main St Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Davis Family Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Fisher Charitable Foundation · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · The Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation C/O Spinnaker Trust · Machias Savings Bank Community Development Foundation · Libra Foundation · Stephen & Tabitha King 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 Roux Family Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% 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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