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Ancore Foundation 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.

$188k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$119kArts & Culture$98kEducation$93kHealth$90kYouth Development$57kHousing & Shelter$50kCommunity Improvement$50kFood & Nutrition$35kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM$53,000
MV YOUTH$25,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE$22,000
HOLDING SPACE FOUNDATION$17,000
ULOMA IMMIGRATION HOUSE$10,000
ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM$10,000
NEIGHBORS IN NEED$10,000
CAMP JABBERWOCKY$10,000
THE AHMAUD ARBERY FOUNDATION$10,000
MARGIE'S HOUSE INC$10,000
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$5,125
BOSTON COLLEGE$5,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARGIE'S HOUSE: $15k → 13%WEST GEORGIA STAR INC: $20k → 18%MARGIE'S HOUSE INC: $10k → 13%MARGIE'S HOUSE INC: $5k → 13%MARGIE'S HOUSE: $5k → 13%MARGIE'S HOUSE INC: $3k → 13%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$368k · 10 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
9

Total granted

$368k
$186k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+10%

Still filing today

60%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $73k · revenue +102%
  • NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC
    3× · 2022–2025 · $35k · revenue +440%
  • HI
    HOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • BE
    BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +76%
  • HS
    Holding Space
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · 100% of their budget
  • DS
    DELTA STEAM ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +226%
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
Black Mental Health & Wellness
Health
2
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
3
Marymount Manhattan College

Marymount manhattan college is an urban, independent, liberal arts college (see schedule o).

Education
4
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
5
Breaking Ground Housing Development Fund Corporation

We offer affordable housing and support programs for homeless and vulnerable new yorkers.

Housing & Shelter
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
8
Browning the Green Space Inc

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…

Environment
9
Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator

Musical Education and Training

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10
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
11
Veterans Inc

Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…

Community Improvement
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Isabella Stewart Gardner 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

22 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. 22 of the 27 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
9/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $50,000 · OtherBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCEULOMA IMMIGRATION HOUSE: $30,000 · OtherULOMA IMMIGRATION HOUSEAREA IN NEED MISSIONARY: $30,000 · OtherAREA IN NEED MISSIONARYRon Burton Training Village Inc: $22,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $20,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CA…THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM INC: $20,000 · OtherTHE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM INC247 GATEWAY LLC: $10,000 · OtherHAIR FOR A CAUSE: $7,500 · Other+3 more: $11,000 · Other+3 moreRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC: $80,000 · HealthRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJE…Holding Space: $50,000 · HealthHolding SpaceTHE HEARTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · HealthTHE HEARTH FOUNDATION INCHOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered: $35,000 · EducationHOPE Inc Helping …DELTA STEAM ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationDELTA STEAM ACADE…HOLDING SPACE FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · EducationHOLDING SPACE FOU…THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM INC: $10,000 · EducationTHE ELEPHANT IN T…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5,125 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · EducationISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $73,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STE…Margie's House: $37,500 · Human ServicesMargie's H…WEST GEORGIA STAR INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWEST GEORG…NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionMV YOUTH INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AHMAUD ARBERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$200,500Health$150,000Education$97,625Arts & Culture$73,000Human Services$57,500Food & Nutrition$35,000Youth Development$25,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC ALLIANCE: $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHolding Space: $50,000 over 1y, 100% of budgetMargie's House: $37,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered: $35,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetDELTA STEAM ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetMV YOUTH INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $22,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST GEORGIA STAR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HEARTH FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetTHE AHMAUD ARBERY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budget247 GATEWAY LLC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $5,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University: $500 over 1y, 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.

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…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN9.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Ancore Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ancore Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report 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 27 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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