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Von Rickenbach 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $110,000 |
| LIFE SCIENCES CARES INC | $20,000 |
| ST ANTHONY SHRINE | $20,000 |
| NETWORK FOR EXCELLENCE IN HEALTH INNOVATION | $10,000 |
| PRESIDENTS & FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| ST BRIGID PARISH | $5,000 |
| THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $1,000 |
| SAVE OUR HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW | $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 (FY20–24, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- LSLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $101k · revenue +122%
- NINEHI INC4× · 2020–2024 · $37k · revenue +38%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- IHIsaiah House Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +27%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +1%
- GFGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -21%
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 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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
Massbio is committed to advancing massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the health care system and improve patient lives.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 31 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 LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds NEHI INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIOMEDICAL SCIENCE CAREERS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Isaiah House Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem Mixxer Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GI Go Fund 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Boger Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Von Rickenbach 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.
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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