· Private foundation
August 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $61k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UW FOUNDATION FJW SCHOLARSHIP | $16,000 |
| ELIZABETH PEABODY HOUSE | $15,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| PROJECT SOUP | $4,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S SHELTER | $4,000 |
| SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,500 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $2,500 |
| EAST SOMERVILLE MAIN STREETS | $2,500 |
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 human-services grants (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- ACACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +70%
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +45%- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $37k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- FAFLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +34%
- LHLAHEY HEALTH COVID FUNDone grant, 2020 · $3k
- WPWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITYone grant, 2019 · $3k
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
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,…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
To provide research facilities to members and to the judicial, executive, and legislative branches of the massachusetts government.
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…
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…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crossroads for Kids Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 43 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 — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 62 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 ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WISCONSIN INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH PEABODY HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALDO LEOPOLD NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FRESH START INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARBOUR INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ELDREDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SOMERVILLE MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOODBANK OF SOUTHERN WI ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Russell Colgate Fund Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · United Way of Dane County Inc · Madison Gas and Electric Foundation Inc · Madison Community Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 August 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.
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Revere Beach Partnership 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.