· Private foundation
American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of AMERICAN TOWER CORPORATION FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k581 grants · $407k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $723k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
- $250k+1 grant · $340k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA (BGCA) | $340,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA CENTERAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC | $100,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF NC STATE UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $65,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC | $35,000 |
| BREEDLOVE FOODS INC | $25,103 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART (ICA) | $25,000 |
| IKA DIOCESAN CHARITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| INSTITUTO AYRTON SENNA (DIGITAL PLATFORM HUMANE) | $25,000 |
| ASSOCIACAO FEMININA DE ESTUDOS SOCIAIS E UNIVERSITARIOS | $25,000 |
| PAN MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $20,211 |
| TAILORED FOR EDUCATION INC | $20,100 |
| WOMEN'S GLOBAL EDUCATION PROJECT | $20,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 89% of grant dollars ($10M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 11% that went abroad ($1.2M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $900k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 11% of all-years giving ($1.2M)
10 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
668 repeat relationships — 336 still active in FY2024, 332 since wound down; 230 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $913k 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
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INC5× · 2020–2024 · $401k · revenue +63%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches7× · 2018–2024 · $344k · revenue +9%
- NCNORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $300k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- APAKSHAYA PATRA FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500k
- BHBILLION HEARTS BEATING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $125k · revenue +88%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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,…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
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…
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…
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,…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
1654 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. 1654 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc 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.
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Gang Alternative Inc — 34% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place 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
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Grow Native Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Reed Institute — 1% of income from government
- The Food Drive Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Network for Social Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Roots School — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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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