· Private foundation
Edward L Bernays Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $21,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER | $3,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| THE CARE CENTER | $3,000 |
| MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL | $2,000 |
| EARTHJUSTICE | $2,000 |
| LESLEY UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| KESTREL LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| DINOSAUR ANNEX MUSIC ENSEMBLE | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC8× · 2017–2025 · $68k · revenue +89%
- DADinosaur Annex Music Ensemble8× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +12%
- CFCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC4× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- CDCOLLEY DICKINSON HOSPITALone grant, 2023 · $6k
- PCPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
- SPSAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATIONone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Mass farmers markets partners wtih farmers, consumers, and communities to improve the health of individuals, strenghten community vitality, and enhance local farm viability through farmers markets.
To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northampton Survival Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Hospital. 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 36 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 40 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble ↗
- Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds SAFE PASSAGE PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WELLESLEY STARS INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MUSICA VIVA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSEUM OF PUBLIC RELATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Northampton Community Music Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WEIR FARM ART ALLIANCE ↗
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: The Beveridge Family Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Boston Foundation Inc · Living Springs Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Ro Family Foundation · Hurdle Hill Foundation · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Edward L Bernays Foundation 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble — 8% of income from government
- Franklin Land Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lesley University — 1% 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.