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Warner Family Foundation Ima at a glance

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Warner Family Foundation Ima

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.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$345kHealth$224kEducation$114kArts & Culture$10kFood & Nutrition$4kAnimals$3kEnvironment$2kScience & Tech$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NVNA NORWELL VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION$75,000
SOUTH SHORE BAPTIST CHURCH$45,000
CALVARY CHURCH OF JUPITER INC$15,000
CRU - CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST$10,500
HAMILTON COLLEGE$2,500
PRISON FELLOWSHIP$2,000
SOUTH SHORE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY$2,000
FOOD FOR THE POOR$1,500
LIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC$1,200
HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
TRUSTEE OF THE COLLEGE OF HOLY CROSS$1,000
TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY$1,000
HILLSDALE COLLEGE$1,000
LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC$500
BETHESDA HOUSE INC$500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $500 → 7%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $500 → 7%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $250 → 7%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

MI
NY
MA
OR
CA
VA
NC
DC
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.
$683k · 21 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.

21 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
14

Total granted

$683k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+15%

Still filing today

76%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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

  • NV
    Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $221k · revenue +54%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +24%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CC
    CRU - CAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST GLOBAL
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • C
    CRU
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • KC
    KEUKA COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +5%
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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
3
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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4
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
Sea Education Association Inc

Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…

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7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
12
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc; the most unlike its peers is Bethesda House 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

27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
17/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SOUTH SHORE BAPTIST CHURCH: $231,000 · OtherSOUTH SHORE BAPTIST CHURCHNorwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $221,000 · OtherNorwell Visiting Nurse Association IncSOUTH SHORE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $99,500 · OtherSOUTH SHORE CHRISTIAN ACADEMYCALVARY CHAPEL OF JUPITER INC: $75,800 · OtherCALVARY CHAPEL OF JUPITER INCCAMPUS CRUSADE FOR CHRIST INC: $28,500 · Other+21 more: $26,100 · OtherTrustees of Hamilton College: $4,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $2,500 · EducationDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $2,500 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $300 · EducationSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC: $2,200 · Arts & CultureJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,000 · HealthSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthFANCONI CANCER FOUNDATION: $250 · HealthBusch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc: $1,500 · AnimalsHULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $200 · AnimalsLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $1,500 · Science & TechEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 · Science & TechFOOD FOR THE POOR INC: $1,500 · International
Other$681,900Education$13,300Arts & Culture$9,700Health$3,250Animals$2,700Science & Tech$2,500International$1,500

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 budgetNorwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc: $221,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CHRISTIAN ACADEMY: $99,500 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSOUTH SHORE ART CENTER INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES: $2,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE ARTCENTER INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEUKA COLLEGE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBusch Wildlife Sanctuary Foundation Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $1,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA HOUSE INC: $750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ocean Foundation: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Boston Foundation IncCharities Aid Foundat…Raymond James Charita…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…Renaissance Charitabl…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.4× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment 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 Warner Family Foundation Ima funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Warner Family Foundation Ima. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
  • South Shore Art Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lighthouse Artcenter Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
2report 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
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.

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 44 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home