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Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundation at a glance

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Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$663k
Granted FY2025still arriving
76
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$3.5MHealth$370kFood & Nutrition$265kPhilanthropy$255kHuman Services$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 76 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $377k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $232k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$7,975
Median grant
10
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$55,000
Food Pantry$30,000
Marla Lamb Fund$25,000
Palliative Care$25,000
MGH Institute of Health$21,000
Frontier Nursing University$16,375
Fitchburg State University$16,000
Arizona State University$15,000
Frontier Nursing University$12,325
Simmons University$11,000
Quinniapac University$10,000
Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine$10,000
Creighton University$10,000
Northeastern University$10,000
Suffolk University$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Fitchburg State University: $16k → 8%Tufts Medical Center: $20k → 16%University of Connecticut: $15k → 11%University of Vermont: $16k → 10%Frontier Nursing University: $16k → 10%University of NE College of Osteopathic Medicine: $15k → 9%Tufts Medical Center: $20k → 16%University of Connecticut: $15k → 11%University of New England: $15k → 9%Arizona State University: $15k → 6%Tufts Medical Center: $20k → 16%Addiction Solutions: $55k → 6%Nantucket High School: $50k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $45k → 6%Elder Services of Cape Cod and Islands Inc: $35k → 6%Regis College: $17k → 8%Elder Services of Cape Cod and Islands Inc: $35k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $35k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $35k → 6%Elder Services of Cape Cod and Islands Inc: $35k → 6%Nantucket High School: $30k → 6%Food Pantry: $30k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $30k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $30k → 6%Fairwinds Counseling of Nantucket: $30k → 6%Fairwinds Center: $30k → 6%Addiction Solutions: $30k → 6%Nantucket Community Foundation: $30k → 6%Community Foundation for Nantucket: $25k → 6%Maria Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Palliative Care: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Maria Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Marla Lamb Fund: $25k → 6%Food Pantry: $25k → 6%Palliative Care: $25k → 6%MGH Institute of Health: $21k → 6%Palliative Care: $20k → 6%Food Pantry: $20k → 6%Food Pantry: $20k → 6%Palliative Care: $20k → 6%Palliative Care: $20k → 6%Palliative Care: $20k → 6%Food Pantry: $20k → 6%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

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
MO
KY
MD
DE
AZ
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 84% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 79%.

Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.5% 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 82 repeat orgs$444k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

82 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

82
40

Total granted

$4.0M
$365k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

38%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.

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

  • REGIS COLLEGE
    8× · 2018–2025 · $144k · revenue +36%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $112k · revenue +87%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NC
    Nantucket Community Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • FC
    Fairwinds Center
    one grant, 2019 · $30k
  • FC
    Fairwinds Counseling of Nantucket
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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.

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Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
2
Western New England University

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…

Education
3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
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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5
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
6
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
7
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
8
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
9
Dean College

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,…

Education
10
Saint Xavier University

Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…

Education
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Community Foundation for Nantucket 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

50 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. 50 of the 139 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/50
Grantees still filing
43/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of MA: $340,783 · OtherUniversity of MAIndividual grant recipient: $260,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUniversity of Vermont: $212,000 · OtherUniversity of VermontPalliative Care: $160,000 · OtherMarla Lamb Fund: $150,000 · OtherFood Pantry: $115,000 · Other+85 more: $1,927,925 · Other+85 moreSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $200,104 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYREGIS COLLEGE: $144,345 · EducationREGIS COLLEGENORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $111,686 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTrustees of Dartmouth College: $68,000 · EducationSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $54,561 · EducationFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC: $54,512 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $47,898 · Education+40 more: $742,696 · Education+40 moreCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,165,708Education$1,423,802Philanthropy$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $200,104 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $144,345 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $111,686 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $74,943 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $68,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $54,561 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC: $54,512 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $47,898 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS: $45,522 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $42,972 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $41,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCPHS UNIVERSITY: $29,760 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $28,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $27,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBucknell University: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE: $26,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMaryville University - St Louis: $21,114 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $17,768 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $16,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY: $15,816 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUSSELL SAGE COLLEGE: $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEckerd College: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $6,004 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmory University: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF OUR LADY OF THE ELMS ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIENA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗

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.

Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorothy Harrison Egan Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • University of Delaware: 25% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 8% of income from government
  • William James College Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Lasell University: 1% of income from government
  • Regis College: 1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Mcphs University: 1% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Monmouth University Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College: 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Eckerd College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 139 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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