· Private foundation
Elizabeth T Fessenden Charitable Fdn
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| GORE PLACE SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $10,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $10,000 |
| WGBH | $10,000 |
| 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| TOWER HILL BOTANICAL GARDEN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $5,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| ARNOLD ARBORETUM OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +38%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +50%
152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $210k · revenue +107% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- SRSPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL - FELLOWS TRAINING DR JOANNE BORG-STEINone grant, 2019 · $50k
- DSDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +78%
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.
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.
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Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
WGBH enriches people's lives through programs and services that educate, inspire, and entertain, fostering citizenship and culture, the joy of learning, and the power of diverse perspectives.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Tudor place historic house & garden preserves the stories of six generations of descendants of martha washington and the enslaved and free people who lived and worked at this georgetown landmark for nearly two centuries. by examining their…
New england historic genealogical society's mission is to advance the study of family history in america and beyond. we educate, inspire, and connect people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. we conduct business under the…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION IN THE UNITED STATES ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE BOSTON PARK RANGERS MOUNTED UNIT INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GORE PLACE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Westwood Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD 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.
Open a dossier: Middlecott Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elizabeth T Fessenden Charitable Fdn funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elizabeth T Fessenden Charitable Fdn. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society: 2% 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
How this is measured
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