· Private foundation
Edna 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PSC - PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE | $165,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE NORTH SHORE | $50,000 |
| HAMILTON-WENHAM ATHLETIC FACILITY IMPROVEMENT (HWAFIC) | $50,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH WENHAM | $25,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC | $20,000 |
| FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $10,000 |
| WEXFORD PLANTATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ANNISQUAM VILLAGE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| THE ALS ASSOCIATION - WALK TO DEFEAT ALS | $500 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE - THE JIMMY FUND | $500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- PPPSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE8× · 2017–2024 · $730k · revenue +140%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC3× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +5%
- WFWEXFORD FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $23k · revenue +131%
Funded once
- AVANNISQUAM VILLAGE HALL ASSOCIATION - LEGACY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TSTHE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -59%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Our mission is to expand access to quality care and improve health outcomes for all. we achieve our mission by partnering deeply to strengthen the health systems in the countries where we work, with a special focus on strengthening the…
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.
(msh) saves lives and improves the health of the world's poorest (see schedule o) and most vulnerable people by closing the gap between knowledge and action in public health.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feed My Starving Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is Annisquam Village Players. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds PSC PARTNERS SEEKING A CURE ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAWYER LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds WEXFORD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
- Who funds FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds Annisquam Village Players ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Edna Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.