· Private foundation
Aequa Foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Aequa Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $317,820 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against -95% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2021, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FAFOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC3× · 2017–2020 · $17k · revenue +8%
- TSTHE STONE TRUST INC2× · 2017–2018 · $17k · revenue +234%
- BEBOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $11k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- AFASSN FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN PREHISTORY INCone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -95% · 99% of their budget
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.
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.
Teach and promote English and American folk dance and music in the California Bay Area. Hold public dances, workshops, and dance camps with intensive instruction. Affilated nationally with CDSS.
Organize conference for folk musicians
The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…
Advance the performance, study, appreciation, and enjoyment of chamber music through a program of public concerts, education, seminars, and lecture
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
Alaska residents benefit from free public admission to an arts and culture festival; the week-long festival encourages non-professional musicians and performers, and has been operating since 1975.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FOLK ARTS CENTER OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE STONE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds PINEWOODS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds New England Folk Festival Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Humane World for Animals Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSN FOR THE STUDY OF LANGUAGE IN PREHISTORY INC ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Aequa Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aequa Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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