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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.

$73k
Granted FY2023
60
Grants FY2023
16
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Health$201kArts & Culture$96kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$20kHuman Services$10kCivil Rights$8kAnimals$7kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2023 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k59 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
$150
Median grant
16
States reached
$203k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN OPERA ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
GANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER$5,000
BOSTON JEWISH FILM INC$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELT$5,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$5,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I$3,500
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE-BOSTON$2,500
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES$2,500
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$2,500
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I$2,000
2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC$2,000
WILDFLOWER INC$1,500
MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORPORATION$1,500
LOWN INSTITUTE INC$1,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON I$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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $200 → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $200 → 8%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $200 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%LEADER DOGS FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 8%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 → 9%THE AFIYA CENTER: $20 → 14%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $100 → 11%PINE STREET INN INC: $300 → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $200 → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $100 → 16%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON IN: $400 → 16%BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $750 → 8%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON IN: $200 → 16%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON IN: $200 → 16%BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $500 → 8%LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON IN: $100 → 16%BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $500 → 8%BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $200 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $150 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $150 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $100 → 16%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
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
AR
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$348k · 81 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +6% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
23

Total granted

$348k
$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
HealthAnimalsArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationOther
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

  • Metropolitan Opera Association Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +8%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $16k · revenue +95%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $15k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • PH
    PARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - MCLEAN HOSPITAL C
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +87%
  • TR
    THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +143%
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
American Academy of Neurology

The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.

Community Improvement
3
Npr Foundation

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…

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4
United States Naval Institute

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.

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5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
National Public Radio Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
8
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
9
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
10
Allosource

Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.

Health
11
National Association of Insurance and Financial Advisors

Empowering financial professionals and consumers through world-class advocacy and education.

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12
Society for Neuroscience

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; 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.
04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 117 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
98/101
Grantees still filing
78/101
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELT: $105,549 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND W: $27,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC - THE BRIGHAM AND WPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC-FOUNDATION OF THE M: $26,000 · OtherPARTNERS HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC-FOUNDATION OF THE MBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $20,000 · OtherBOSTON JEWISH FILM INCGANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $15,100 · OtherGANN ACADEMY THE NEW JEWISH HIGH SCHOOL OF GREATER BOSTON INC+72 more: $42,557 · Other+72 moreMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMetropolitan Opera Ass…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHES…WGBH Educational Foundation: $4,800 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Found…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $2,800 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $2,900 · Arts & CultureDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $16,000 · HealthLOWN INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 · HealthAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,000 · Health+11 more: $3,970 · HealthCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $24,500 · Philanthropy+2 more: $750 · PhilanthropyWILDFLOWER INC: $6,800 · EducationTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $2,100 · EducationHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $550 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $550 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $500 · EducationARABIAN HORSE FOUNDATION: $400 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $20 · Civil RightsFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $600 · International
Other$236,206Arts & Culture$75,500Health$25,970Philanthropy$25,250Education$11,000Civil Rights$8,020International$6,200

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON JEWISH FILM INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILDFLOWER INC: $6,800 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $4,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWN INSTITUTE INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $2,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC: $2,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budget2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC: $900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBADASS ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR JEWISH HISTORY INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALS FOUNDATION FOR LIFE: $600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE BROOKLINE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN FEDERATION INC: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHORSEPOWER SANCTUARIES INC DBA REDWINGS HORSE SANCTUARY: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFront Range Equine Rescue: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Care Network Inc: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGENTLE GIANTS DRAFT HORSE RESCUE SOCIETY LTD: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $500 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…National Network of A…Eastern Bank Foundati…American Tower Corpor…Anderson-Rogers Found…Bushrod H Campbell & …Ge Aerospace Foundati…PC Fund for Animals C…Women Donors NetworkJoseph and Rae Gann C…The Hamilton Company …
Boston Foundation IncMA29.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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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.

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 117 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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