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The Taniguchi Deane Family Foundation at a glance

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The Taniguchi Deane 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.

$118k
Granted FY2024still arriving
38
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$334kEnvironment$150kEducation$140kHealth$87kFood & Nutrition$64kHuman Services$56kYouth Development$17kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$1,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$13k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
South Shore Conservatory$50,000
Friends of Holly Hill Farm$20,000
National Tropical Botanical Garden$5,000
Alma Cares$5,000
South Shore Conservatory$5,000
Wellspring Multi Service Center$5,000
St Paul's School$3,000
Project Bread$3,000
Middlebury College$2,500
TENACITY$2,000
Cohasset Library Trust$1,500
Cohasset Food Pantry$1,500
Derby Academy$1,000
Amnesty International$1,000
Sandy Beach Association$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Focus: $1k → 14%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $20k → 7%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $5k → 7%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $5k → 7%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $5k → 8%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $2k → 7%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $1k → 7%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $1k → 7%Sowing Seeds: $500 → 8%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $1k → 7%Sowing Seeds: $500 → 8%Friends of Holly Hill Farm: $1k → 7%Sowing Seeds: $500 → 7%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $15k → 8%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $10k → 8%Wellspring: $5k → 8%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $5k → 8%Wellspring: $2k → 8%Wellspring: $2k → 8%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $1k → 8%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $1k → 8%Wellspring Multi Service Center: $625 → 8%Wellspring: $500 → 8%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

VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
UT
MD
NC
DC
HI
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 44 repeat orgs$72k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
6

Total granted

$781k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
-5%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NT
    NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
    5× · 2020–2024 · $112k · revenue +240%
  • Oberlin College
    3× · 2020–2022 · $65k · revenue +19%
  • WI
    WELLSPRING INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $42k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -5%
  • A
    ATREE
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BA
    Boys and Girls Clubs of Roxbury
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
4
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
5
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Conservatory of Music Inc; the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 61 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $275,050 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INCSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INCATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureOberlin College: $65,000 · EducationOberlin CollegeDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $15,500 · EducationDERBY ACADEMY TRU…ST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $13,000 · EducationST PAUL'S SCHOOLTrustees of Dartmouth College: $12,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartm…President and Fellows of Middlebury College: $12,500 · EducationPresident and Fel…+6 more: $17,100 · Education+6 moreNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $112,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TROPI…+1 more: $1,750 · EnvironmentTrustees of the Reservation: $31,250 · OtherTrustees of the…Massachusetts General Hospital Fund: $16,500 · OtherMassachusetts G…WGBH: $9,000 · OtherWGBHCohasset Food Pantry: $7,425 · OtherCohasset Food P…ATREE: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,500 · OtherPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $7,900 · OtherPROJECT BREAD-T…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $6,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · OtherALMA CARES INC: $5,000 · Other+19 more: $22,100 · Other+19 moreWELLSPRING INC: $42,125 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING …FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $40,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF …GIVEDIRECTLY INC: $4,500 · Human Services+2 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $50,000 · HealthTHE INSTI…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 · HealthDana-Farb…Children's Hospital Corporation: $4,000 · HealthChildren'…+1 more: $500 · HealthTENACITY INC: $8,000 · Recreation & SportsSandy Beach Association: $3,100 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$325,050Education$135,600Environment$113,750Other$120,675Human Services$89,625Health$69,500Recreation & Sports$11,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC: $275,050 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $112,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOberlin College: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWELLSPRING INC: $42,125 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $40,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetST PAUL'S SCHOOL: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTENACITY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $7,900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALMA CARES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOHASSET LIBRARY TRUST INC: $3,600 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSandy Beach Association: $3,100 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSowing Seeds LTD: $1,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetCohasset Historical Society: $1,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PARAGON CAROUSEL INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DREAM PROGRAM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY FOCUS LEGACY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $900 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMALARIA CONSORTIUM US INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIowa Abortion Access Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOHASSET CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $300 over 3y, 0.2% 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 SOUTH SHORE CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds Oberlin College ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR ETHNOMEDICINE INC DBA BRAIN CHEMISTRY LABS ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds ATLANTIC SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ALMA CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds COHASSET LIBRARY TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds Sandy Beach Association ↗
  • Who funds MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CINCINNATI COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Sowing Seeds LTD ↗
  • Who funds Cohasset Historical Society ↗

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.

South Shore Playhouse…Sherbrooke Family Cha…Pilgrim Bank Foundati…Baranay Family Founda…South Shore Bank Char…Chubb Charitable Foun…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…
South Shore Playhouse Associates IncMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: South Shore Playhouse Associates Inc · Sherbrooke Family Charitable Trust · Pilgrim Bank Foundation · Baranay Family Foundation Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Taniguchi Deane Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Taniguchi Deane Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Dream Program Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Marshfield Food Pantry Inc: 4% of income from government
  • South Shore Art Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wellspring Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 61 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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