· Private foundation
Boylston Family 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 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 $10k4 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST | $22,500 |
| BIG LIFE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WILDLIFE ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| THE ACLU FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| WESTERN WATERSHEDS | $2,000 |
| ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER | $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 (FY19–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% 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 +116% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC9× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +187%
- BLBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +158%
- NANORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM6× · 2018–2025 · $23k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- EFEastWest Food Rescueone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -93%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
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.
Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public education.
Preservation and promotion of civil rights and civil liberties.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
The aclu of alaska is a non-partisan organization dedicated to advancing the cause of civil liberties in alaska through public education and legal action.
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
The water protector legal collective is an indigenous-led legal nonprofit that provides support and advocacy for indigenous peoples and original nations, the earth, and climate justice movements.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 38 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 ADVOCATES FOR THE WEST INC ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds VALENTINO ACHAK DENG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds PANZI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOLOKAI CHILD ABUSE PREVENTION PATH ↗
- Who funds EastWest Food Rescue ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds BALLET SUN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FUND TEXAS CHOICE ↗
- Who funds AKASHINGA INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds TITCOMB SKI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boylston Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boylston Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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