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Ednah M Horner Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$45k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$207kScience & Tech$2kArts & Culture$1k
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$1,950
Median grant
6
States reached
$689k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Salem State University$12,000
University of Massachusetts - Amherst$5,850
College of the Holy Cross$3,900
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$3,900
Boston University$3,900
Bowdoin College$3,135
George Mason University$1,950
Emerson College$1,950
Brown University$1,950
Quinnipiac University$1,950
Villanova University$1,950
Northeastern University$1,950
Suffolk University$500
Wentworth Institute of Technology$250
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $2k → 7%College of the Holy Cross: $4k → 11%Stonehill College: $2k → 11%University of Massachusetts - Amherst: $6k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%Villanova University: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $4k → 11%Quinnipiac University: $2k → 12%George Mason University: $2k → 6%Bowdoin College: $3k → 7%WORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: $4k → 11%University of Massachusetts - Amherst: $6k → 12%Northeastern University: $2k → 16%Brown University: $2k → 14%WORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $1k → 12%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $16k → 10%Salem State University: $12k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-S: $5k → 10%Emerson College: $2k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 10%Boston University: $4k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-K: $3k → 10%BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 16%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-J: $3k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-B: $2k → 10%Harvard University: $2k → 8%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-S: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-E: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-K: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-K: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-S: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-B: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-A: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-R: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-R: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-S: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-O: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-K: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-B: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-E: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-I: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-SC: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-O: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-E: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-A: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-I: $2k → 10%SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-B: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
VA
NC
SC
DC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$153k · 26 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
43

Total granted

$153k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+16%

Still filing today

42%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +24%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • SC
    STONEHILL COLLEGE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +13%
  • SS
    SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-SC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +37%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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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3
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
4
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
5
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
6
Dickinson College

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

Education
7
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
8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

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
The Catholic University of America

As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…

Education
11
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
12
Manhattanville University

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

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is New York University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 82 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%6%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr14%81%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr14%11%35–55yr14%72%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,321

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
28/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SALEM STATE UNIVERSITY — $32,000 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITYUniversity of Massachusetts - Amherst — $13,505 · OtherUniversity of Massachusetts - AmherstSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-S — $10,975 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-SSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-K — $8,800 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-KSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-B — $8,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $7,880 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY — $7,620 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $6,065 · OtherSALEM STATE UNIVERSITY-E — $6,000 · Other+36 more — $49,575 · Other+36 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $8,445 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYBowdoin College — $4,320 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $3,900 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE…VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,135 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,755 · EducationPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $2,415 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,370 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $2,370 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $2,235 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,960 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE — $1,950 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $1,950 · Education+21 more — $19,500 · Education+21 moreBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,135 · Community Improvement
Other$150,420Education$57,305Community Improvement$3,135

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%grantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $8,445 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $7,880 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College — $4,320 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $3,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $3,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY — $3,135 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,755 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE — $2,415 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $2,370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $2,235 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,960 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $1,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $1,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $1,780 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $1,775 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $1,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $1,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $1,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC — $1,185 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $1,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJacksonville University — $980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University — $980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $975 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe University of Tampa Incorporated — $325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ednah M Horner Charitable 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 11% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
  • Jacksonville University — 1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • The University of Tampa Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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