· Private foundation
The Royal Little Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $119k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $460k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Celebrity Series of Boston | $120,000 |
| Pine Street Inn | $50,000 |
| EFFINGHAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| Vashon Island Public Schools Foundation | $25,000 |
| PACIFIC BONSAI MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| Lyford Cay Foundation Inc | $25,000 |
| CASCADE HEAD BIOSPHERE COLLABORATIVE | $21,500 |
| CREATURE CONSERVE | $20,000 |
| Green Mountain Conservation Group | $20,000 |
| DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR COMMUNITY CNTR | $20,000 |
| FABNEWPORT INC | $16,500 |
| Ensemble Studio Theater Inc | $15,000 |
| Steere House | $15,000 |
| SAWHORSE REVOLUTION | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $317k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
119 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $74k 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
- SHSHADY HILL SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $471k · revenue +51%
- GMGREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION GROUP7× · 2017–2024 · $347k · revenue +302% · 28% of their budget
- WPWOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $238k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- EFEFFINGHAM FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $23k
- DCDEPELCHIN CHILDREN'S CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +30%
- CNCentral New Hampshire VNA & Hospiceone grant, 2021 · $10k · 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.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
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,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
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.
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 association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aquidneck Island Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Rj's Kids. 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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
133 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. 133 of the 170 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 THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN CONSERVATION GROUP ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S PROJECT & PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds LYFORD CAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MINT THEATER COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VASHON ISLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sound Action ↗
- Who funds CREATURE CONSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY ISLAND LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EFFINGHAM PRESERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VASHON-MAURY ISLAND HERITAGE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STEERE HOUSE NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Discover Your Northwest ↗
- Who funds WESTWIND STEWARDSHIP GROUP ↗
- Who funds ENSEMBLE STUDIO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds VASHON MAURY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds MARTIN LUTHER KING COMMUNITY CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTORMERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEYMEN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Rj's Kids ↗
- Who funds GEORGE WEYERHAEUSER PACIFIC RIM BONSAI COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BIG CAT RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds CASCADE HEAD BIOSPHERE COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VASHON YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Seattle Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · The Champlin Foundation · Beardsley Foundation · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Beacon Foundation · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gruben Charitable Foundation · The Howard Gilman 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 Royal Little 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.
- High Desert Partnership — 100% of income from government
- Oregon Coast Aquarium Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Wetlands Conservancy Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cascade Head Biosphere Collaborative — 7% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Chicopee Inc — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.