· Private foundation
Ebling 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 $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $180k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENLIGHT FUND | $250,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $180,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $25,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS ROOM | $20,000 |
| THE FAMILY VAN | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE | $5,000 |
| ELLIS EARLY LERNING FUND | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $147k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +100% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- GFGREENLIGHT FUND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +215%
MORE THAN WORDS INC6× · 2018–2025 · $175k · revenue +82%- TCThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children9× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- BBBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -60%
- AHARMENIAN HERITAGE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $50k
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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.
Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving
Cfa society boston members promote the highest ethical standards, best practices and professional development within the investment industry to educate and build trust in the community it serves.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds TRICKLE UP PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN INDIA 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ebling Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ebling Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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