· Private foundation
The Verano Fund
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 $10k22 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATER FOR THE SOUTH SUDAN | $40,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE | $12,500 |
| WELLESLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| IOWA PUBLIC RADIO | $10,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $8,500 |
| WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| TO WRITE LOVE ON HER ARMS | $7,000 |
| TUBMAN | $7,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TRINTY COLLEGE CLASS OF 1940 | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $3,000 |
| UNRWA USA | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION9× · 2017–2025 · $110k · revenue +68%
- IPIOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +32%
- WCWORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TNTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -5%
- WPWINTERSET PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $5k
- WWATERORGone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +8%
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 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.
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
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 fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc and the most unlike its peers is Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc. 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 44 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 — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds IOWA PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TWLOHA INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds TUBMAN ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds CUTTYHUNK STEAM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Verano Fund 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cuttyhunk Steam Academy — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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