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.

Edvestors Inc

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· 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.

$817k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$80k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.1MArts & Culture$2.7MYouth Development$364kEmployment$259kCivil Rights$90kCommunity Improvement$81kHuman Services$67kHealth$40kOther$0

02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured

The 60 grants below total $765,700, the rows itemized in this filing. The $817,068 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,368 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k37 grants · $280k
$10k–50k21 grants · $340k
$50k–250k2 grants · $146k

$9,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.6M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)	$80,000
ELIOT SCHOOL OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS	$66,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON	$28,000
COMPANY ONE	$27,000
OPEN DOOR ARTS	$27,000
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT	$22,000
FRACTURED ATLAS	$22,000
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)	$20,000
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)	$20,000
BALLETROX	$18,000
LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON	$18,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY	$15,000
BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT	$13,500
APPRENTICE LEARNING	$13,000
VERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER	$12,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of Edvestors Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 79%.

Edvestors Inclessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.2M · 55 repeat orgs$538k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

55 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.2M

$525k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%

+7%

Still filing today

91%

65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $268k · revenue +72%
COMPANY ONE INC
8× · 2017–2025 · $257k · revenue +208%
FH
Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School
9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +109%

Funded once

EM
EDWARD M KENNEDY ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -81%
AF
ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +115%
BE
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND
one grant, 2022 · $40k

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.

04Its field

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.

Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc

Recreation & Sports

Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education

New England Lawboston

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…

Education

Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education

Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education

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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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)

Education

Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture

Trinity Academy for the Performing Arts

Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.

Education

The Boston Children's School Inc

To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

Education

The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education

Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Timothy Smith Network. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 94 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

77/82

Grantees still filing

53/82

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$3,369,016Arts & Culture$2,007,600Education$920,405Youth Development$153,500Employment$91,050Human Services$85,000Community Improvement$81,000

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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA74.3× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edvestors Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edvestors Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

21get no government money at all

14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

4rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home