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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.

$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$43k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Environment$376kEducation$222kPhilanthropy$182kCrime & Legal$123kCommunity Improvement$116kHuman Services$108kFood & Nutrition$77kScience & Tech$76kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $243k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%PRIME COALITION: $10k → 8%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $20k → 28%PRIME COALITION: $5k → 8%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $10k → 28%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $8k → 28%YWCA BOSTON: $5k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 16%YW BOSTON: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 17%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $4k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $8k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $4k → 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
MD
DC
AL
TX
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 40 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

$1.2M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-13%
+1%

Still filing today

93%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GE
    GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $79k · revenue +256%
  • CA
    CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $76k · revenue +59%
  • ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -100%
  • GREENPEACE FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +7%
  • PD
    PROJECT DRAWDOWN
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +9%
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
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
2
Climate Catalyst Inc

Climate catalyst sparks collective action to tackle the biggest climate challenges we face today: cutting emissions in heavy industries.

Environment
3
Coalition for Green Capital D/B/a American Green Bank Consortium

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…

Environment
4
The Climate Group Inc

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.…

Environment
5
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
6
Cdp North America Inc

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…

Environment
7
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
8
Climate Leadership Council Inc

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.

Environment
9
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
10
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
11
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
12
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
54/54
Grantees still filing
25/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER EDUCATION …CLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $76,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE…CENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $26,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON RE…Vote Solar: $23,000 · EnvironmentVote SolarGREENPEACE FUND INC: $15,000 · EnvironmentRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 · Environment+6 more: $40,000 · Environment+6 moreJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $48,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YO…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $46,500 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENNA…The Education Trust Inc: $38,000 · EducationThe Education Tr…NEW TEACHER CENTER: $23,000 · EducationNEW TEACHER CENT…MANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $21,000 · EducationMANAGEMENT LEADE…SCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $18,000 · EducationSCRIPTED INC DBA…BLUE ENGINE INC: $14,000 · EducationBLUE ENGINE INCPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $10,000 · EducationEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,000 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $109,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTM…POLICYLINK: $65,000 · Community ImprovementPOLICYLINKInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $41,000 · Community ImprovementInformation Tech…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementBAGLY INC: $48,000 · OtherBAGLY INCTIDES FOUNDATION: $40,000 · OtherTIDES FOUNDATIONBPE: $28,000 · OtherBPEADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $76,000 · OtherCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUNDNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45,750 · OtherNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECTPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $32,000 · OtherPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER I…TERRAPRAXIS INC: $40,000 · OtherTERRAPRAXIS INCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $20,000 · OtherPRO PUBLICA INC: $22,000 · Other+13 more: $111,000 · Other+13 moreROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GRO…CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $38,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA …COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $24,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY S…PRIME COALITION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALI…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $9,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR …NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $7,500 · Human ServicesGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $38,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $24,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $13,000 · Civil RightsVOTEORG: $10,000 · Civil RightsTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $48,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $14,000 · Youth DevelopmentHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 · Youth Development
Environment$283,000Education$228,500Community Improvement$225,000Other$480,750Human Services$151,500Civil Rights$85,000Youth Development$77,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $109,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC: $79,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCLIMATE SCIENCE LEGAL DEFENSE FUND: $76,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $76,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICYLINK: $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $48,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBAGLY INC: $48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $46,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT: $45,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetInformation Technology and Innovation Foundation: $41,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTERRAPRAXIS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC: $38,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $32,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $26,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $24,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVote Solar: $23,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW TEACHER CENTER: $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMANAGEMENT LEADERSHIP FOR TOMORROW: $21,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCRIPTED INC DBA CODE NATION: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE ENGINE INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAINFOREST FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $14,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD FOOD INSTITUTE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGOOD ENERGY COLLECTIVE INC: $13,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT DRAWDOWN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIP HOP CAUCUS EDUCATION FUND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetVOTEORG: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE EMERGENCY FUND: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS CLIMATE EDUCATION CORP: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE: $7,500 over 1y, 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.

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.

The William & Flora H…Boston Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…National Philanthropi…Combined Jewish Phila…Morgan Stanley Global…Effective Ventures Fo…Breakthrough Energy F…The Hyams Foundation …Bernard and Anne Spit…Barr FoundationUnited States Energy …
The William & Flora Hewlett FoundationCA20.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Enhancing Tomorrow funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Enhancing Tomorrow. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
8report 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
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Enhancing Tomorrow?

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.

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 64 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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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