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Alvarium 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $663k
- $250k+1 grant · $600k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC | $600,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $150,000 |
| ROCA | $100,000 |
| PROJECT PLACE | $100,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $100,000 |
| UTEC | $87,500 |
| SCHOOLS ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $75,000 |
| YMCA SOUTHCOAST | $50,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $6,025 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 53% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC7× · 2018–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +144%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $726k · revenue +61%- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $535k · revenue +67%
Funded once
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.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Big brothers big sisters of western massachusetts inc. matches at-risk children and teens, primarily from low-income, single-parent homes, in one-to-one mentoring relationships to screened, trained and supervised volunteers with measurable…
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
The purpose of this corporation is to develop, implement, manage, operate, enhance and promote the general welfare of the people within the designated newmarket business improvement district, through activities, programs, and services to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Alvarium 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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