· Private foundation
Andy and Mariann Youniss 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $180k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPOONFULS INC | $130,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION | $50,000 |
| BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC | $30,000 |
| SPOONFULS INC | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
7 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2019–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +26%
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION5× · 2018–2024 · $925k · revenue +96%- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $530k · revenue +9%
Funded once
BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -17%- FLFOOD LINK INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue ×16
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +221%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
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…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
How this is measured
13 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.
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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds THE RECORD COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WELLESLEY METCO INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds National Capital Poison Center ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN 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.
Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Andy and Mariann Youniss Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andy and Mariann Youniss Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc: 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Record Company Inc: 2% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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