· Private foundation
The Scarbro 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HGRM (HOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLIING) | $10,000 |
| ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $2,000 |
| WGBH | $2,000 |
| WBUR | $2,000 |
| MSPCC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION (NPCA) | $1,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CFRA | $500 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $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 (FY17–25, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 5% 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 +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- HGHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $69k · revenue +56%
- AJANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +6%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HGHOUSEHOLD GOODS RECYCLINGone grant, 2024 · $10k
- CPCASTLE PLAYGROUND PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $3k
- AACLUone grant, 2019 · $2k
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 Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
See attached schedule othe conservancy has sole responsibility for managing all aspects of the rose kennedy greenway, including horticulture, programming, public art, maintenance, and capital improvements. we envision a vibrant, inclusive,…
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.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Rsc Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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.
37 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. 37 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 HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds ANDREW JAMES LAWSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Carlisle Conservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR RURAL AFFAIRS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BRUCE FREEMAN RAIL TRAIL 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: Citizens Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Scarbro 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- New England Quilt Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.