· Private foundation
Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY EQUALITY COUNCIL | $25,000 |
| LAMBDA LEGAL | $25,000 |
| BOSTON FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MAP (Medical Assistance Programs) | $20,000 |
| GLAD | $15,000 |
| REDWOOD LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| THEATRE OFFENSIVE | $10,000 |
| MSCPA | $10,000 |
| SERO PROJECT | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FENWAY HEALTH MEDICAL CENTER | $7,000 |
| BOSTON ALLIANCE OF LGBTQ | $5,000 |
| YOUTH PRIDE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +178% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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
- LLLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $115k · revenue +196%
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC2× · 2017–2020 · $30k · revenue +211%- SPSERO PROJECT INC3× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +178%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $105k
- FEFAMILY EQUALITY COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $75k
- BMBOSTON MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
Freedom for all massachusetts is the bipartisan campaign to ensure fair and equal treatment for transgender people by defending the common wealth's laws against discrimination in public spaces such as restaurants, retail stores, and…
Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
To work for equitable health care access and outcomes for people who experience injustice at the intersection of health status and identity.
Equality florida action is the advocacy arm of the largest civil rights organization working to secure full equality for florida's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq) community.(continued on schedule o)we work to pass…
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…
Equality federation institute is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.
Glma is a national organization committed to ensuring health equity for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer (lgbtq) and all sexual and gender minority (sgm) individuals, and equality for lgbtq/sgm health professionals in their work…
Services and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders, inc. (sage) is the country's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lgbtq+ older adults. in partnership with our constituents and…
Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and…
National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…
Equality federation is an advocacy accelerator rooted in social justice, building power in our network of state-based lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (lgbtq+) advocacy organizations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Equality and the most unlike its peers is Confetti Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 32 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 LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GLAAD INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SERO PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY EQUALITY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM FOR ALL AMERICANS ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE THEATER OFFENSIVE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH PRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SEACOLOGY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds CONFETTI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE & MAIN ↗
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: Wild Geese Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation 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.
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive 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.