· Private foundation
Enhancing Tomorrow
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $43,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| JUMPSTART | $20,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC | $20,000 |
| CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $20,000 |
| CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE | $20,000 |
| WILLIAM J BRENNAN JR CENTER FOR JUSTICE | $20,000 |
| TERRAPRAXIS INC | $20,000 |
| GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS | $10,000 |
| HIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| BAGLY | $10,000 |
| THE EDUCATION TRUST | $10,000 |
| VOTEORG | $10,000 |
| TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS | $10,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 19%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% 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.
40 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- GEGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC5× · 2020–2024 · $79k · revenue +256%
- CACLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +59%
BAGLY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +102%
Funded once
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -100%
GREENPEACE FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +7%- TNTHE NEW TEACHER PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.
Cgc operates as a nonprofit financial institution that invests directly and through partners to transform financial markets by using public and private investing to accelerate the deployment of projects that strengthen the grid, reduce…
Climate group advances climate action by mobilizing business and government leadership to drive systemic decarbonization across energy, transport, and industry, while engaging the public through large-scale convenings and global platforms.…
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…
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…
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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…
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and the most unlike its peers is Collaborative for Academic Social and Emotional Learning. 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.
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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 64 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND ↗
- Who funds CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds POLICYLINK ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Information Technology and Innovation Foundation ↗
- Who funds TERRAPRAXIS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Vote Solar ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION ↗
- Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ENGINE INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY 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.
Open a dossier: The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Breakthrough Energy Foundation · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust · Barr Foundation · United States Energy 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 Enhancing Tomorrow 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.
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Project Innerspace Inc — 34% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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Find your warmest path to Enhancing Tomorrow 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.