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Traquina 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Education$6.9MYouth Development$150kRecreation & Sports$65kSocial Science$55kInternational$35kCrime & Legal$25kPhilanthropy$15kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.9M
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WINSOR SCHOOL$1,000,000
THE STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION$500,000
BATES COLLEGE$400,000
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$25,000
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION$25,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$25,000
SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER$20,000
CITY YEAR INC$10,000
EPIC FOUNDATION$10,000
JOEY O'DONNELL FOUNDATION TRUST (DBA THE JOEY FUND)$5,000
THE TULGEY WOOD INC$5,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST$5,000
PLAY FOR PINK INC$4,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%THE TULGEY WOOD INC: $10k → 8%THE TULGEY WOOD INC: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.8M · 11 repeat orgs$127k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against -24% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

$5.8M
$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
-24%

Still filing today

91%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesOther

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

  • THE WINSOR SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +47%
  • PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +44%
  • STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $653k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • AS
    America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -37%
  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARS
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -13%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
4
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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5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
7
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
8
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
9
The Trustees of the Smith College

Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…

Education
10
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
11
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

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12
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores and the most unlike its peers is Viamistad Corporation. 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

20 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. 20 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE WINSOR SCHOOL — $2,625,000 · EducationTHE WINSOR SCHOOLPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $2,005,000 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGEBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,375,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $653,246 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC+3 more — $90,000 · EducationCITY YEAR INC — $185,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $55,000 · OtherTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $55,000 · OtherTHE POSSE FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Other+5 more — $30,000 · OtherWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION — $70,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $15,000 · PhilanthropyAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentEPIC FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 · InternationalVIAMISTAD CORPORATION — $2,500 · InternationalTHE TULGEY WOOD INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Hospital Corporation — $5,000 · HealthPLAY FOR PINK INC — $4,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$6,748,246Other$350,000Philanthropy$85,000Youth Development$80,000International$35,000Human Services$15,000Health$5,000Crime & Legal$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL — $2,625,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $2,005,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $1,375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $653,246 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $185,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores — $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEPIC FOUNDATION INC — $32,500 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TULGEY WOOD INC — $15,000 over 2y, 6.1% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOEY O'DONNELL FOUNDATION TRUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAY FOR PINK INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIAMISTAD CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 3.6% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Traquina 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines