· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MADISON ROTARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACCESS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS | $5,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S SHELTER | $4,000 |
| PROJECT SOUP | $4,000 |
| SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION | $3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MA FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NORTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $2,500 |
| ROTARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| BOSTON ATHENAEUM | $2,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $2,500 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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 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.
How this is measured
43 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. 43 of the 62 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.
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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization August Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from August Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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