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Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation at a glance

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Carl & Ruth Shapiro 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.

$3.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
91
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$870k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$11MEducation$4.6MArts & Culture$4.4MPhilanthropy$2.1MHuman Services$751kYouth Development$704kCrime & Legal$435kEmployment$360kOther$0
02FY2025 · 91 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $55k
  • $10k–50k69 grants · $1.5M
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $376k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$870,000
MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$382,000
BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL$101,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES$100,000
HUNTINGTON THEATER$70,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC$55,000
THEATER OFFENSIVE INC$50,000
FULL SPECTRUM FEATURES$39,250
ROCA INC$35,000
TEAM IMPACT$35,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY$34,000
BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC$32,500
CAMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER$30,000
MY LIFE MY CHOICE$30,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$30,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $20k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $20k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $20k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $20k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA: $25k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA: $20k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA: $20k → 8%ACCESSPORTAMERICA: $20k → 8%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%MORSE LIFE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%HOPEWELL INC: $25k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $25k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $25k → 7%GATEWAY ARTS: $20k → 7%GATEWAY ARTS: $20k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $20k → 7%GATEWAY ARTS: $20k → 7%EXCEPTIONAL LIVES: $15k → 7%CHARITY WATER: $10k → 17%VINFEN INC (GATEWAY ARTS): $10k → 8%SMART FROM THE START INC: $35k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $30k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $30k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $30k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $20k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $20k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC: $20k → 16%URBANO PROJECT INC: $15k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $20k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $20k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $15k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $15k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $15k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $15k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $35k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $30k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $30k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $30k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $30k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $30k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $25k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $23k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 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

IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
NC
DC
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 15% of Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 93% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 87%.

Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.2% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 97 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

97 repeat relationships: 73 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
38

Total granted

$19M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+17%

Still filing today

78%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $254k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.2M · revenue +115%
  • BA
    BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL
    8× · 2017–2025 · $366k · revenue +56%
  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $350k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1.6M · revenue +29%
  • BP
    BASCOM PALMER EYE INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Boston Architectural College

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

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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
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
8
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
9
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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10
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc; the most unlike its peers is Charity Global Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

120 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 120 of the 154 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
119/120
Grantees still filing
76/120
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $6,235,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORAT…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $260,000 · Health+16 more: $423,200 · Health+16 moreBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $3,380,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALMUSUEM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $727,000 · OtherMUSUEM OF FINE ARTS BOSTONUS HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM: $322,500 · Other+60 more: $2,863,250 · Other+60 moreBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $3,460,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $366,000 · EducationBRIMMER AND MAY SCHO…+19 more: $811,000 · Education+19 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,600,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $350,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHON…HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $310,000 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THE…THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $180,000 · Arts & CultureTHE THEATER OF…City Ballet of Boston Inc: $140,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC: $111,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $597,500 · Arts & Culture+18 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $910,000 · PhilanthropyCombined …Hebrew Senior Life Inc: $825,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Se…Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $130,000 · PhilanthropyTown of P…TEAM IMPACT INC: $97,500 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $93,250 · Philanthropy+1 more: $2,500 · PhilanthropyONE FAMILY INC: $185,000 · Human ServicesSMART FROM THE START INC: $165,000 · Human ServicesJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $153,000 · Human ServicesACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesVINFEN CORPORATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $40,000 · Human Services+9 more: $161,300 · Human ServicesROCA INC: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $185,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentWAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC: $20,000 · Youth Development
Health$6,918,200Other$7,292,750Education$4,637,000Arts & Culture$3,288,500Philanthropy$2,058,250Human Services$1,074,300Youth Development$465,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $6,235,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $3,460,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $1,600,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $910,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $825,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL: $366,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $350,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC: $310,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $260,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCA INC: $240,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $205,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $195,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetONE FAMILY INC: $185,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $185,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetTHE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC: $180,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC: $165,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $153,000 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $150,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Miami: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCity Ballet of Boston Inc: $140,000 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $140,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc: $130,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC: $125,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $115,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC: $111,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $110,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC: $100,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTEAM IMPACT INC: $97,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $93,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $92,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $85,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetORIGINATION INCORPORATED: $85,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetIF INNOVATION FOUNDATION: $82,750 over 3y, 11% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $80,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $80,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHOPEWELL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $72,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVINFEN CORPORATION: $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $60,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
  • Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
  • Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds University of Miami ↗
  • Who funds City Ballet of Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND ↗
  • Who funds Town of Palm Beach United Way Inc ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
  • Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY 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.

Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …Combined Jewish Phila…Highland Street Conne…The Hamilton Company …United Way Of Massach…Cambridge Savings Cha…Richard & Susan Smith…
Boston Foundation IncMA68.8× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation

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 Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Carl & Ruth Shapiro Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Vinfen Corporation: 83% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc: 15% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Urbano Project Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc: 5% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Abilities Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • United Way of Palm Beach County Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • City Ballet of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Palm Beach Day Academy Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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 154 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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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home