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A Chance for Progress Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

A Chance for Progress Inc

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.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION$25,000
THE ONETA FOUNDATION$25,000
MORE PERFECT UNION$25,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO NORTH$20,000
THE CIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND$15,000
THE ANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION$10,000
BOSTON BACKPACK PROJECT$10,000
RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS$10,000
GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK$10,000
SELF ESTEEM BOSTON$10,000
A WISH WITH WINGS$10,000
MISSION OF DEEDS$10,000
WAYPOINT$10,000
SOLDIERS ANGELS$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY25–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%THE ONETA FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%NEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS: $10k → 14%MISSION OF DEEDS: $10k → 8%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $10k → 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.
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 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
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
2
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
3
Us Naval Academy Foundation Inc

To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.

Education
4
Uaspire Inc

Uaspire's mission is to improve the economic mobility of underrepresented students by creating financial solutions to diverse postsecondary pathways.

Education
5
Social Venture Partners Boston Inc

Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social…

Philanthropy
6
Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc

To provide wellness and wellbeing services to veterans and family members across all dimensions and empower them to achieve their full potential. provide outreach services to underserved areas veterans are in.

Public Benefit
7
Foundation for Students Rising Above

Sra empowers students facing systemic barriers to define and find success through their education, career, and in life. we envision a world in which every person can achieve economic and social equity. our college completion and workforce…

Philanthropy
8
Boston Bar Foundation

The mission of the boston bar foundation (bbf) is to promote justice by funding and promoting innovation in legal services, enhancing access to justice for the underserved, and supporting the public interest activities of the bar. as the…

Crime & Legal
9
Surfaid International Usa

To improve the health, well being, sustainability, and self reliance of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing including their ability to respond to environmental conditions caused by climate change.

Philanthropy
10
Silver Lining Mentoring Inc

Silver lining mentoring's mission is to empower youth impacted by foster care to thrive through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills.

Youth Development
11
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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12
Wings Over America Scholarship Fdtn

Our mission is to provide college scholarships to dependent children and spouses of us navy aviation personnel - officer and enlisted - active duty, retired, honorably discharged or deceased. recipients are selected on the basis of…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soldiers' Angels; the most unlike its peers is Bellaire Lacrosse Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 18 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
3/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE ONETA FOUNDATION: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ONETA FOUNDATIONNEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS: $10,000 · Human ServicesNEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANSMission of Deeds Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds IncGENAUSTIN: $10,000 · Human ServicesGENAUSTINRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INCWAYPOINT: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYPOINTSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute I…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO NORTH: $20,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ME…A WISH WITH WINGS INC: $10,000 · OtherA WISH WITH WINGS INCBOSTON BACKPACK PROJECT: $10,000 · OtherBOSTON BACKPACK PROJECTMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $5,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $5,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCO…MORE PERFECT UNION: $25,000 · EducationMORE PERFECT UNIONCIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $15,000 · EducationCIO SCHOLARSHIP FUNDNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthNATIONAL SCLERODE…ANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · HealthANGIOGENESIS FOUN…SOLDIERS' ANGELS: $10,000 · Public Safety & DisasterBELLAIRE LACROSSE CLUB: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$85,000Other$50,000Education$40,000Health$35,000Public Safety & Disaster$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS: $10,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetGENAUSTIN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetA WISH WITH WINGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSOLDIERS' ANGELS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBELLAIRE LACROSSE CLUB: $5,000 over 1y, 7.9% 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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN7.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 A Chance for Progress Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Chance for Progress Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get 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 · 0–25%
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 18 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
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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