· Private foundation
Traynor Family Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k59 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELT | $5,000 |
| GANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER | $5,000 |
| BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC | $5,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $5,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $3,500 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES | $2,500 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE-BOSTON | $2,500 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC | $2,000 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $2,000 |
| WILDFLOWER INC | $1,500 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $1,500 |
| COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I | $1,000 |
| LOWN INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +36% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2023, 35 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Metropolitan Opera Association Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +73%- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- PHPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MCLEAN HOSPITAL Cone grant, 2021 · $2k
- FOFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +87%
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +143%
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 Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.
Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 40 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.
101 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 101 of the 117 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 Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BADASS ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ALS FOUNDATION FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · National Network of Abortion Funds Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Anderson-Rogers Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · PC Fund for Animals Charitable Tr · Women Donors Network · Joseph and Rae Gann Charitable Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 Traynor 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.
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Traynor Family Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Traynor Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.