· Private foundation
Angel 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $500,000 |
| BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS | $450,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $250,000 |
| JOHN HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH | $125,000 |
| CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC | $41,667 |
| UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PANGEASEED FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| THE NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE GIRLS FOUNDATION OF TANZANIA | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of your 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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k 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
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION7× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +12%
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +69%
CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC4× · 2019–2025 · $407k · revenue +162%
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTERone grant, 2020 · $250k
- VBVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +610%
- ININNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
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 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…
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Gloucester marine genomics institute's mission is to address critical challenges in ocean health, human health, and the environment through innovative marine biotechnology research and transformative science education. by combining…
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and 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.
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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 42 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 NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PANGEASEED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF DENVER ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CONNECT INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Watermans Community Center ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE WATER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Otter Island Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Weld Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Byrne and Pamela Murphy Family Foundation · Strypemonde Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Angel 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.
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% 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.