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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.

$817k
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$80k
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 FY2017–2025.

Education$3.1MArts & Culture$2.7MYouth Development$364kEmployment$259kCivil Rights$90kCommunity Improvement$81kHuman Services$67kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 60 grants below total $765,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $817,068 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,368 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k37 grants · $280k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $146k
$9,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$6.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)$80,000
ELIOT SCHOOL OF FINE AND APPLIED ARTS$66,000
COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON$28,000
OPEN DOOR ARTS$27,000
COMPANY ONE$27,000
ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT$22,000
FRACTURED ATLAS$22,000
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)$20,000
BOSTON EDUCATION FUND (BEDF)$20,000
LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON$18,000
BALLETROX$18,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$15,000
BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT$13,500
APPRENTICE LEARNING$13,000
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY$12,000
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.

show:

Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALLIED COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $8k → 11%College Bound Dorchester: $10k → 16%Action for Boston Community Dev: $50k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $10k → 16%African Community Economic Development of New Engl: $7k → 16%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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Edvestors Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 79% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Edvestors Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 6.8% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.2M · 55 repeat orgs$538k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you 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

55
37

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyEmploymentOther

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

  • 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

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
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
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
3
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
4
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
5
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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6
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
7
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
8
The Bookbuilders of Boston Educational Fund Inc
Education
9
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
10
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
11
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
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr13%10%5–10yr18%25%10–20yr22%36%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr15%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%5%5–10yr18%10%10–20yr22%29%20–35yr14%42%35–55yr15%13%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/90
the rest of the field
10%
695/6,623

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.

05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 94 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/82
Grantees still filing
52/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $2,038,416 · OtherTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INCTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $392,700 · OtherTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOLSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION INC — $351,800 · OtherSEVEN HILLS FOUNDATION INC+28 more — $586,100 · Other+28 moreCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $268,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON …COMPANY ONE INC — $256,500 · Arts & CultureCOMPANY ONE INCACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $186,300 · Arts & CultureACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECTARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $136,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS I…FRACTURED ATLAS INC — $127,100 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INCBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC — $126,600 · Arts & CultureBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INCHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $107,400 · Arts & CultureHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INCZUMIX INC — $95,000 · Arts & CultureLyric Stage Company of Boston Inc — $87,800 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,600 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $72,800 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $468,500 · Arts & Culture+13 moreFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $172,300 · EducationFenway High Sch…CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC — $123,000 · EducationCENTER FOR COLL…EDWARD M KENNEDY ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EducationEDWARD M KENNED…MARGARITA MUNIZ ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $86,437 · EducationMARGARITA MUNIZ…BOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $63,420 · EducationBOSTON GREEN AC…BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $61,885 · EducationBOSTON COLLEGIA…CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 · EducationBOSTON DAY & EVENING ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $31,545 · Education+18 more — $246,818 · Education+18 moreAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $58,500 · Youth DevelopmentART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICA INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIGHTER BOSTON INC — $74,050 · EmploymentTHE LOOP LAB INC — $17,000 · EmploymentACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesALLIED COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $8,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENGLAND — $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $81,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,369,016Arts & Culture$2,007,600Education$920,405Youth Development$153,500Employment$91,050Human Services$85,000Community Improvement$81,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $2,038,416 over 9y, 5.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $392,700 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $268,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetCOMPANY ONE INC — $256,500 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $186,300 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $172,300 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $136,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC — $127,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC — $126,600 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetCENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC — $123,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $107,400 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBALLETROX INC — $105,800 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetZUMIX INC — $95,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLyric Stage Company of Boston Inc — $87,800 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetMARGARITA MUNIZ ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $86,437 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $81,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $75,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBRIGHTER BOSTON INC — $74,050 over 6y, 7.7% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $72,800 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetVERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER — $65,600 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetBOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $63,420 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $63,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $61,885 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER — $61,500 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $58,500 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetTRANSFORMATIVE CULTURE PROJECT INC F/K/A PRESS PASS TV INC — $54,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC — $49,800 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC — $48,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED — $45,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetMASS L E A P INC — $42,000 over 2y, 21% of budget2ND ACT ORG INC — $39,800 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC — $37,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON DAY & EVENING ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $31,545 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $30,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCity Stage Company Inc — $30,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $28,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBPE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING INC — $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetMAKING MUSIC MATTERS INC — $24,000 over 2y, 62% of budgetBRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC — $23,318 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC — $22,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of Perry Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHICA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds COMPANY ONE INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
  • Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
  • Who funds BALLETROX INC ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
  • Who funds Lyric Stage Company of Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARGARITA MUNIZ ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds VERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON GREEN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH END MUSIC & PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds TRANSFORMATIVE CULTURE PROJECT INC F/K/A PRESS PASS TV INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSPOETRY INC ↗
  • Who funds PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ART RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS (ARCK) INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds MASS L E A P INC ↗
  • Who funds 2ND ACT ORG INC ↗
  • Who funds ETM-MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON DAY & EVENING ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Boston After School &…Eastern Bank Foundati…Barr FoundationThe Cabot Family Char…Ramsey McCluskey Fami…Cummings Foundation G…The Klarman Family Fo…Linde Family Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Wellington Management…
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

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 Edvestors Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Allied Community Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Center for Collaborative Education Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Boston Green Academy Foundation Inc — 59% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
  • Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Digital Ready Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
  • Veronica Robles Cultural Center — 5% of income from government
  • 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Brighter Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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

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 94 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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