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Elliott Badgley 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.

$90k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Environment$147kInternational$88kCivil Rights$73kPublic Safety & Disaster$37kHealth$34kCrime & Legal$32kArts & Culture$27kFood & Nutrition$22kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$3,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
International Rescue Committee$32,500
World Central Kitchen$12,000
350org$10,000
Doctors Without Borders$9,500
Palestine Children's Relief Fund$6,500
Global Giving$5,000
Democracy Now Productions Inc$3,000
Climate Defiance Foundation$3,000
Oceana Inc$2,500
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$2,000
Love Serve Remember Foundation$1,000
Resist Inc$1,000
City LifeVida Urbana (Urban Revival)$1,000
Soul Shine Guatemala$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Partnership with Native Americans: $3k → 14%La Colaborativa: $1k → 16%Partnership with Native Americans: $3k → 14%La Colaborativa: $1k → 16%Massachusetts Bail Fund: $1k → 16%Massachusetts Bail Fund: $1k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
VA
MD
AZ
NM
NC
DC
AL
TX
FL

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.

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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$418k · 28 repeat orgs$139k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
45

Total granted

$418k
$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+1%

Still filing today

96%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalEnvironmentCivil RightsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +49%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +63%
  • TD
    THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $20k · revenue +192%

Funded once

  • CE
    CLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $11k · revenue 0%
  • NA
    New Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSIC COMMUNITYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +127% · 36% of their budget

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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
4
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
5
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
6
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
7
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
8
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
11
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
12
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Mexico Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ripple Effect. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity FoundationsPregnancy Support ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Food PantriesCommunity Arts CentersUnited Way AffiliatesFood Banks and PantriesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%28%10–20yr16%31%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%14%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,495

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.

04the grantee network

70 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. 70 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/70
Grantees still filing
39/70
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

350ORG — $72,500 · Environment350ORGOCEANA INC — $28,700 · EnvironmentOCEANA INCCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $10,500 · EnvironmentCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUNDGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · Environment+5 more — $9,500 · Environment+5 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $36,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCInternational Rescue Committee INC — $34,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Commi…GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION IN…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $14,500 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES U…RAINFOREST TRUST — $10,000 · InternationalRAINFOREST TRUSTPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $6,500 · International+5 more — $12,000 · International+5 moreREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $55,750 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT C…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $27,200 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIAT…AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERT…NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $7,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PRO…ROCK THE VOTE — $5,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $4,000 · Civil RightsPlanned Parenthood — $12,500 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodMAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 · OtherUrban Collaborative (aka The UCAP School) — $5,000 · OtherTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 · OtherFeeding America — $6,250 · OtherMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 · OtherPartnership With Native Americans — $5,000 · OtherNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $10,000 · OtherNew Alternatives for LGBT…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $5,000 · OtherJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 · OtherAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $5,000 · Other+30 more — $53,750 · Other+30 moreMETROPOLITAN MUSIC COMMUNITY — $10,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INC — $4,500 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $19,750 · AnimalsHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $9,600 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 · Health
Environment$132,200International$131,500Civil Rights$107,950Other$127,500Arts & Culture$26,500Animals$19,750Health$14,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget350ORG — $72,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES — $55,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $36,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $34,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOCEANA INC — $28,700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $27,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $19,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC — $17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $14,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND — $10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNew Alternatives for LGBT Homeless Youth Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSIC COMMUNITY — $10,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetRAINFOREST TRUST — $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc — $9,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMAYA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPartnership With Native Americans — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMAZON CONSERVATION TEAM — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCK THE VOTE — $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INC — $4,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLava Mae — $3,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNew Mexico Childrens Foundation — $3,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUE RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FUND — $3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIPPLE EFFECT — $2,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE SERVE REMEMBER FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZUMIX INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERES GLOBAL — $2,000 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

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 IncThe New World Foundat…Barr FoundationTides FoundationJosephine and Louise …Eastern Bank Foundati…ImpactassetsincCombined Jewish Phila…Ploughshares Foundati…The Klarman Family Fo…The San Francisco Fou…American Tower Corpor…
Boston Foundation IncMA27.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The New World Foundation · Barr Foundation · Tides Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Ploughshares Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc

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 Elliott Badgley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% 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
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 78 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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
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$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