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Alchemy 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.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$2.5MArts & Culture$2.0MInternational$1.6MHealth$443kEnvironment$377kEducation$181kCivil Rights$150kFood & Nutrition$53kOther$0
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$8.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wild Foundation$10,000
Foundation for the Free Flight$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Reel Fathers Ltd: $250 → 12%Women's Refugee Commission: $3k → 17%Women's Refugee Commission: $3k → 17%Metrics for Management: $1.5M → 10%Women's Refugee Commission: $3k → 17%Metrics for Management: $1.0M → 10%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%American Red Cross: $6k → 14%World Food Program Inc: $5k → 14%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%World Food Program Inc: $1k → 14%Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: $3k → 10%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: $500 → 10%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $2k → 16%The Carter Center for Children Inc: $250 → 7%Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc: $250 → 10%World Food Program Inc: $1k → 14%Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless: $250 → 10%American Red Cross: $1k → 14%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%World Food Program Inc: $500 → 14%Pine Steet Inn: $1k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $1k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $500 → 16%Friends of the World Food Program Inc: $500 → 14%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $500 → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $500 → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $500 → 16%On The Rise Inc: $1k → 8%On The Rise Inc: $1k → 8%On The Rise Inc: $1k → 8%On The Rise Inc: $1k → 8%Health Equity International: $500 → 8%Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $500 → 16%Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $500 → 16%Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $500 → 16%Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $500 → 16%New England International Donors: $5k → 16%New England International Donors: $4k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $1k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $1k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $1k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $1k → 16%Rogerson Communities: $1k → 16%Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance Inc: $500 → 16%Massachusetts Housing and Shelter Alliance Inc: $500 → 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

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MN
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
CA
CO
NE
VA
MD
AZ
NM
AR
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.4M · 191 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

191 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 191 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191
43

Total granted

$7.4M
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentEducationHealthOther
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

  • MF
    METRICS FOR MANAGEMENT
    2× · 2020–2023 · $2.5M · revenue +231% · 65% of their budget
  • TC
    THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +201%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $609k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FIELD CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $6k
  • AF
    American Friends of the Art Gallery of Ontario Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +34%
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
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
4
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
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
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
10
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; the most unlike its peers is Hammer Museum 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

201 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. 201 of the 243 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
195/201
Grantees still filing
149/201
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRICS FOR MANAGEMENT: $2,500,000 · Human ServicesMETRICS FOR MANAGEMENT+17 more: $67,900 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,104,633 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUMBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $367,660 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $195,011 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSFRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: $75,000 · Arts & Culture+25 more: $180,062 · Arts & Culture+25 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $609,368 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTI…REFUGEPOINT INC: $295,365 · InternationalREFUGEPOINT INCSave The Children Federation Inc: $141,535 · InternationalSave The Children Fe…United States Association for UNHCR: $75,000 · InternationalUnited States Associ…International Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 · International+16 more: $147,500 · International+16 moreArnold Arboretum of Harvard University: $308,124 · OtherArnold Arboret…United States Fund for UNICEF (dba UNICEF USA): $77,500 · OtherUnited States …International Refugee Assistance Project Inc (dba IRAP): $42,500 · OtherTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC: $40,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $33,500 · OtherCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $34,500 · Other+88 more: $396,700 · Other+88 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $170,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $166,906 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $19,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $14,500 · Health+4 more: $5,300 · HealthPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $40,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION: $24,950 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,350 · EducationBEACON ACADEMY INC: $19,500 · EducationCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $8,250 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $7,000 · EducationBARD COLLEGE: $6,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $6,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · Education+8 more: $13,050 · EducationINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $51,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $48,500 · Civil RightsAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation: $30,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $5,500 · Civil Rights+6 more: $3,600 · Civil Rights
Human Services$2,567,900Arts & Culture$1,922,366International$1,318,768Other$932,824Health$400,706Education$166,100Civil Rights$148,600

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMETRICS FOR MANAGEMENT: $2,500,000 over 2y, 65% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $1,104,633 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $609,368 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $367,660 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetREFUGEPOINT INC: $295,365 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $195,011 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $170,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $166,906 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $141,535 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: $75,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $51,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $48,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $44,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $35,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $34,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $33,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION: $24,950 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $20,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL: $15,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL: $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $8,700 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM: $8,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASYLUM ACCESS: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $7,500 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.

  • Who funds METRICS FOR MANAGEMENT ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR CLINICAL INVESTIGATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PHYSICIANS FOR HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation ↗
  • Who funds KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Liberty Mutual Founda…Highland Street Conne…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Hamilton Company …Eastern Cambridge Fou…The Klarman Family Fo…The Cabot Family Char…Stevenson Family Char…Barr Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA77× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Barr 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 Alchemy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Alchemy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Riverside Community Care Inc: 58% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • College for Social Innovation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Primary Source Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Solutions at Work Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Society of Arts and Crafts: 10% of income from government
  • The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% 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
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mistral Music Inc: 6% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Emmanuel Music Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Fitchburg Art Museum: 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Groton Hill Music Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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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How do I get to Alchemy Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Alchemy 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 243 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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