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Edwin S Webster Foundation at a glance

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Edwin S Webster Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
63
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Health$4.4MArts & Culture$2.6MEducation$2.2MEnvironment$2.1MYouth Development$1.8MFood & Nutrition$1.4MHuman Services$860kScience & Tech$585kOther$0
02FY2025 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k45 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$300,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON$225,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$200,000
SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER$125,000
SPEARE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL$90,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$70,000
SCHEPENS EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE$65,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$65,000
HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY$60,000
PINE STREET INN INC$50,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC$50,000
THE PUTNEY SCHOOL$50,000
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC$50,000
HOLDERNESS SCHOOL$50,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER$50,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $20k → 10%PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC: $10k → 17%YMCA OF SOUTH HAMPTON ROADS: $10k → 9%SUSU COMMUNITY FARM: $50k → 11%NEW HAMPSHIRE CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $50k → 7%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $15k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $50k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $50k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $50k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $40k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $35k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $30k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $25k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $25k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $25k → 10%EGGLESTON: $20k → 19%PINE STREET INN INC: $75k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $25k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $20k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $20k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $15k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $30k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $30k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $30k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $50k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $40k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $40k → 16%PAIGE ACADEMY: $25k → 16%PAIGE ACADEMY: $15k → 16%PAIGE ACADEMY: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
VA
MD
NC
FL
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 94 repeat orgs$630k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

94 repeat relationships: 53 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
30

Total granted

$16M
$480k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+14%

Still filing today

84%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $150k 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
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsOther
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

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +1%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
  • SM
    Speare Memorial Hospital
    9× · 2017–2025 · $620k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • NH
    New Hampshire Catholic Charities
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +14%
  • SC
    SUSU COMMUNITY FARM INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -56%
  • RF
    RETREAT FARM LTD
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -64%
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.

1
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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2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
4
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
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
7
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
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Wheaton College

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…

Education
10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
11
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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12
Northeastern University
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Soc of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Ma; the most unlike its peers is Egg Harbor Township High School Crew Booster Club a Nj Non Profit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 137 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/111
Grantees still filing
81/111
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,250,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,105,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY: $305,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON: $235,000 · OtherGRANITE UNITED WAY: $220,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $230,000 · OtherGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $225,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $250,000 · OtherEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $220,000 · Other+43 more: $1,937,500 · Other+43 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $275,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE AR…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY O…VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $230,000 · Arts & CultureVERMONT FOLKLIFE …BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $225,000 · Arts & CultureBENNINGTON MUSEUM…NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $210,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT HISTORICA…THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $205,000 · Arts & CultureTHE PRESERVATION …SCHOOLYARD FILMS INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOLYARD FILMS …FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: $170,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF MOUNT …ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $145,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $140,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $120,000 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $115,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $500,000 · Arts & Culture+11 moreSpeare Memorial Hospital: $620,000 · HealthSpeare Memorial …Children's Hospital Corporation: $465,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $400,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES …Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $305,000 · HealthSchepens Eye Res…SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $235,000 · HealthSOUTHWESTERN VER…FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $160,000 · HealthFOUNTAIN HOUSE I…Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $135,000 · HealthLYMETV: $125,000 · Health+6 more: $125,000 · HealthMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $485,000 · EducationMassachusett…WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $250,000 · EducationWENTWORTH IN…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 · EducationPresident an…POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationPOWNAL PRESC…LANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $195,000 · EducationLANDMARK SCH…ECHOING GREEN INC: $105,000 · EducationECHOING GREE…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 · EducationHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $100,000 · Education+14 more: $255,000 · Education+14 moreSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $520,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES…SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $450,000 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES…NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $220,000 · EnvironmentNEW YORK BO…MANOMET INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentMANOMET INCMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $115,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSET…CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN ST…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $95,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEE…+3 more: $105,000 · Environment+3 morePINE STREET INN INC: $385,000 · Human ServicesPINE STRE…FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $330,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH …UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $120,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SO…PAIGE ACADEMY INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $65,000 · Human Services+8 more: $225,000 · Human Services+8 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,200,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $20,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,977,500Arts & Culture$2,785,000Health$2,570,000Education$1,940,000Environment$1,755,000Human Services$1,530,000Youth Development$1,220,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $1,250,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,200,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetSpeare Memorial Hospital: $620,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $520,000 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $485,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $465,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $450,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $400,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $385,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $340,000 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $330,000 over 9y, 4.5% of budgetSchepens Eye Research Institute Inc: $305,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $275,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $275,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $250,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $250,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION: $235,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $230,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER: $230,000 over 9y, 5.9% of budgetBENNINGTON MUSEUM INC: $225,000 over 9y, 3.1% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $225,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY: $220,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $220,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $220,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $210,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $205,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPOWNAL PRESCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 6y, 9.6% of budgetLANDMARK SCHOOL INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $175,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOLYARD FILMS INC: $175,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetFRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY: $170,000 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC: $160,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMANOMET INC: $150,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $145,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPRESERVATION LEAGUE OF NEW YORK STATE: $140,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $135,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetLYMETV: $125,000 over 6y, 63% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $120,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION: $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $115,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $115,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $105,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $95,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Speare Memorial Hospital ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Schepens Eye Research Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN VERMONT HEALTH CARE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BENNINGTON MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds NEWPORT HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds POWNAL PRESCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds LANDMARK SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOLYARD FILMS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗

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 IncThe Harris TrustThe Vermont Community…New Hampshire Charita…Fidelity FoundationCummings Foundation G…Ben & Jerry's Foundat…Hampton Roads Communi…Townebank FoundationUnited Way of South H…Essex County Communit…Lovett-Woodsum Founda…
Boston Foundation IncMA30.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Harris Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc

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 Edwin S Webster Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin S Webster Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Vermont Folklife Center: 90% of income from government
  • Pownal Preschool Inc: 75% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • United Way of Windham County Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Retreat Farm Ltd: 25% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Urbano Project Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Susu Community Farm Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bonnie Brae: 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Snow Farm- the New England Craft Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Metalwerx Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Brattleboro Museum & Art Centerinc: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Bennington College Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
13report 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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Find your warmest path to Edwin S Webster Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 137 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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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