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Boule Foundation

The foundation provides scholarships to undergraduate and graduate students and grants, donations and leadership development support to communities across the country.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Education$936kArts & Culture$575kCivil Rights$400kYouth Development$110kRecreation & Sports$85kHealth$75kHuman Services$56kCommunity Improvement$35kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 40 grants below total $1,383,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,811,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $428,200 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $620k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $750k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$38M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International African American Museum$100,000
Jazz at Lincoln Center$100,000
NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund Inc$100,000
BVM Capacity Building Institute$100,000
The Memorial Foundation (MLK Monument)$100,000
National Pan-Hellenic Council$50,000
Flint Freedom Schools$50,000
Jackson Minton Scholarship Program$50,000
Ron Brown Scholar Fund$50,000
Base 11$50,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
Charles H Wright Museum$40,000
Talledega College$40,000
The History Makers$40,000
The Harlem School of the Arts Inc$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%National Cares Mentoring Movement: $25k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

IL
WI
MI
NY
PA
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$935k · 11 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
13

Total granted

$935k
$661k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-5%

Still filing today

73%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $929k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
EducationArts & CultureCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • JA
    JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +20%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +132%
  • CF
    Center for Innovations in Education
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +16% · 37% of their budget

Funded once

  • UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC
    one grant, 2023 · $306k · revenue -56%
  • TJ
    THOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -5%
  • SC
    STEAM CODERS
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Young Black Scholar Institute
Community Improvement
2
The African-American Educational and Cultural Festival Inc
Arts & Culture
3
Crowned Scholars

Mentorship of young Black men

Education
4
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

—
5
Gaines-Jones Scholars
Philanthropy
6
National Black Mba Association - Inc - Washington D C Chapter

Nonprofit membership association focused on educating and advancing Black MBAs and other Black members of the community

Community Improvement
7
Hbcu 20X20 Foundation

HBCU 20x20 is the worlds largest network for HBCU and Black job seekers. We relentlessly pursue opportunities for others because when we all work together any and everything is possible. Born from the idea that students at HBCU…

Employment
8
Henry M Jackson Foundation
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9
The Epsilon Lambda Boule Foundation Inc

Focus on the total development of black male, high school-aged scholars with financial wealth-building at the core of our program.

Education
10
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering Inc

To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.

Civil Rights
11
Svgs Foundation

Each year students have the opportunity to apply for the Walker-Williams-Wilson Memorial Scholarship dedicated to the memory of HBCU alumni who greatly impacted the spaces they graced The scholarship supports deserving Black male scholars…

Education
12
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Mentoring Foundation. 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 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%17%5–10yr19%30%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%45%20–35yr13%2%35–55yr16%22%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,537

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 53 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
8/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Memorial Foundation (MLK Monument) — $100,000 · OtherThe Memorial Foundation (MLK Monument…Individual grant recipient — $65,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFlint Freedom Schools — $50,000 · OtherFlint Freedom SchoolsJackson Minton Scholarship Program — $50,000 · OtherJackson Minton Scholarship ProgramSTEAM CODERS — $50,000 · OtherSTEAM CODERSMedical Scholars Pipeline Program — $45,000 · OtherMedical Scholars Pipeline ProgramTalladega College — $40,000 · OtherJOHN S NEWMAN JR FOUNDATION — $35,000 · OtherThe Harlem School of the Arts Inc — $35,000 · OtherHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $30,000 · Other+20 more — $312,500 · Other+20 moreUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $306,000 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCCenter for Innovations in Education — $150,000 · EducationCenter for Innovations in EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITYDurham Colored Library Inc — $55,000 · EducationDurham Colored Library IncRon Brown Scholar Fund — $50,000 · EducationRon Brown Scholar FundTHE 431 EXCHANGE THE 431 EXCHANGE — $35,000 · EducationNATIONAL MENTORING FOUNDATION — $35,000 · Education+4 more — $85,000 · Education+4 moreJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $200,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CE…INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $100,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRI…THE HISTORYMAKERS — $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HISTORYMAKERSMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF AFRICAN …NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $200,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL D…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY …NATIONAL PAN HELLENIC COUNCIL INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsCLIMB USA INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentMothers Abandoned or Widowed — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $35,000 · HealthNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc — $25,000 · Human Services
Other$842,500Education$816,000Arts & Culture$420,000Civil Rights$300,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Youth Development$36,000Health$35,000Human Services$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC — $306,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Innovations in Education — $150,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM — $100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HISTORYMAKERS — $80,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDurham Colored Library Inc — $55,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetNATIONAL PAN HELLENIC COUNCIL INC — $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetRon Brown Scholar Fund — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTalladega College — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE OF ATLANTA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 431 EXCHANGE THE 431 EXCHANGE — $35,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetNATIONAL MENTORING FOUNDATION — $35,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetHARLEM SCHOOL OF THE ARTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMB USA INC — $30,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetGAMMA ZETA BOULE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBETA NU BOULE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR RESPONSIBLE CITIZENSHIP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetKAPPA ALPHA PSI FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNational Cares Mentoring Movement Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDiamond Youth Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetMothers Abandoned or Widowed — $6,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Rockefeller Found…The Ayco Charitable F…The Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Charities Aid Foundat…The Pfizer Foundation…The Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
The Rockefeller FoundationNY12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rockefeller Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good

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 Boule 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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