· Private foundation
Edith H Overly Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $507k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trustees of Tufts College | $180,000 |
| Museum of Science | $125,000 |
| Old Sturbridge Village | $105,000 |
| New England Aquarium | $95,000 |
| American Alpine Club | $80,000 |
| Unity Farm Sanctuary | $73,739 |
| American Cancer Society | $70,000 |
| Mass Eye & Ear Infirmary | $60,000 |
| Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital | $60,000 |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $60,000 |
| World Wildlife Fund | $50,000 |
| Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust | $50,000 |
| The Metropolitan Opera Association | $50,000 |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Center | $50,000 |
| New England Wildlife Center | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Edith H Overly Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Trustees of Tufts College5× · 2020–2024 · $860k · revenue +39%- TATHE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB5× · 2020–2024 · $420k · revenue +29%
- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCE5× · 2020–2024 · $329k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- UFUNITY FARM SANCTUARYone grant, 2024 · $74k · revenue 0%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -24%
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
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.…
How this is measured
30 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. 30 of the 35 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN ALPINE CLUB ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CAROLINA HORSE PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT TREAT PAINE HISTORICAL TRUST ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALTHOUR - MOSS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New England Equine Rescue - North Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITY FARM SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 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 · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Edith H Overly Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edith H Overly Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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