Massachusetts · Public charity
Edvestors Inc
Edvestors was founded in 2002 as a platform to connect boston philanthropists with the city's public schools by identifying, shaping, and matching donors with promising school improvement efforts. (see schedule o)
- $817k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 60
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $766k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $9,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $80,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 44
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations Edvestors Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 34 | $766k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 34 | $810k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 37 | $678k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $901k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $818k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $388k | 54% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $509k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $878k | 35% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc | $2,038,416 | 9 | 5% |
| Trustees of Eliot School | $392,700 | 8 | 5% |
| Seven Hills Foundation Inc | $351,800 | 8 | n/a |
| Community Music Center of Boston Inc | $268,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Company One Inc | $256,500 | 8 | 6% |
| Actors' Shakespeare Project | $186,300 | 8 | 3% |
| Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School | $172,300 | 9 | 4% |
| Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc | $136,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $127,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Music Project Inc | $126,600 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 89 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edvestors Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 76 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Klarman Family Foundation · Linde Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Wellington Management Foundation
How this is measured
About Edvestors Inc
- How much does Edvestors Inc give?
- Edvestors Inc reported 60 itemized grants totaling $765,700, out of $817,068 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 44 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edvestors Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (46%), Arts & Culture (40%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are Edvestors Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Trustees of Eliot School ($393k), Seven Hills Foundation Inc ($352k).
- Does Edvestors Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edvestors Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Boston After School & Beyond Inc.
- Where is Edvestors Inc based?
- Edvestors Inc is based in MA.
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