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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.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$3.6MArts & Culture$2.3MEducation$2.2MEnvironment$804kHealth$512kInternational$422kScience & Tech$250kCommunity Improvement$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $207k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.2M
$15,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION$25,000
HARVARD COLLEGE$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON$25,000
PANGEASEED FOUNDATION$25,000
VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION$15,000
THE NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION$15,000
DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$15,000
HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION$10,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL$10,000
WORLD CONNECT INC$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $25k → 8%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $424k → 16%PANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $125k → 15%WORLD CONNECT INC: $20k → 20%VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART: $25k → 12%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $30k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON: $25k → 9%JOHN HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $125k → 19%INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES: $25k → 9%DARTMOUTH COLLEGE: $50k → 10%NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $40k → 7%NORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $27k → 11%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $390k → 16%PANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $25k → 15%VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%JOHN HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH: $83k → 19%NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $20k → 7%NORTH HAVEN COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $15k → 11%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $370k → 16%NORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $20k → 7%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $370k → 16%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $370k → 16%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $250k → 16%ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM: $100k → 16%PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD: $250k → 8%HARVARD COLLEGE: $25k → 8%HARVARD COLLEGE: $20k → 8%HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $45k → 11%THE NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%THE NORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $12k → 11%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $874k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $838k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $833k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $510k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $500k → 16%BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS: $450k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $25k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $20k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION: $15k → 16%NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM: $15k → 16%ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY: $33k → 16%ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY: $15k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL: $700k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL: $600k → 16%NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL: $400k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CT
CO
VA
MD
HI
TX
FL
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 26 repeat orgs$843k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
10

Total granted

$9.3M
$363k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+5%

Still filing today

77%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $480k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION
    7× · 2019–2025 · $3.6M · revenue +12%
  • ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +69%
  • CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2019–2025 · $407k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • VB
    VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +610%
  • IN
    INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -7%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

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.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated

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…

Science & Tech
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
9
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
10
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
University of Hartford

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; 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

31 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. 31 of the 42 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $3,595,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION+2 more: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,700,000 · OtherTHE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER …BOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESS: $450,000 · OtherBOW SEAT OCEAN AWARENESSUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $250,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON…+17 more: $542,000 · Other+17 moreISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $2,274,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER …+3 more: $110,500 · Arts & CulturePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $208,333 · EducationDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $105,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $75,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $50,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $42,500 · Education+1 more: $6,500 · EducationCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $406,667 · InternationalWORLD CONNECT INC: $45,000 · International+2 more: $15,000 · InternationalPANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $160,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 · EnvironmentSAFE WATER NETWORK: $14,000 · EnvironmentNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $90,000 · Housing & Shelter
Animals$3,610,000Other$2,942,000Arts & Culture$2,384,500Education$737,333International$466,667Environment$284,000Housing & Shelter$90,000

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 budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $3,595,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $2,274,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $406,667 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $208,333 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPANGEASEED FOUNDATION: $160,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $105,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH HAVEN SUSTAINABLE HOUSING: $90,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetNORTH HAVEN FOUNDATION: $77,000 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $68,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CONNECT INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $42,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWatermans Community Center: $24,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE WATER NETWORK: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH HAVEN LIBRARY: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $6,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROMANIAN CHILDREN'S RELIEF INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBENEATH THE WAVES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NORTH HAVEN LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds The Girls Foundation of Tanzania ↗

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.

Otter Island Foundati…Middlecott FoundationBoston Foundation IncWeld FoundationMaine Community Found…Byrne and Pamela Murp…Strypemonde FoundationFisher Charitable Fou…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
Otter Island FoundationTX17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Angel Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Angel Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 42 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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