· Private foundation
Digs 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LANDMARK SCHOOL | $13,100 |
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL BOSTON | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES ARCHDIOCESE BOSTON | $9,932 |
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $5,215 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $5,000 |
| Town of Eustis-Stratton School | $5,000 |
| CLERGY BENEFIT TRUST | $5,000 |
| Stratton-Eustis Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $5,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL OF BOSTON | $4,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - CAPE COD | $3,000 |
| CARDINAL CUSHING CENTER SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| THAYER ACADEMY | $1,877 |
| BUCKLEY INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $250) land where the poverty rate runs at 23%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 +53% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +72%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS9× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +44%
LANDMARK SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $10k
- NPNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL BOSTONone grant, 2021 · $5k
- BMBOSTON MARATHON JIMMY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 63 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 THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds RECONCILE NEW ORLEANS INC ↗
- Who funds HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Youth Centers ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds DJ HENRY DREAM FUND 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 · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Digs Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Digs Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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