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Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$187k
Granted FY2020
14
Grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
31%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Median grant, FY2020
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2020
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 20
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
5
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 31% of the organizations Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20
HealthEducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202013$162k31%
FY20196$65k17%
FY201811$187k45%
FY201720$460kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Civil Rights$310kHealth$182kPhilanthropy$85kArts & Culture$70kEducation$40kCrime & Legal$30kHousing & Shelter$25kYouth Development$20kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 19 grantees
All grantees of Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc$115,00040%
Glaad Inc$50,00011%
Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc$30,00020%
Sero Project Inc$30,00032%
Pine Street Inn Inc$25,00030%
Freedom for All Americans$25,00014%
Fenway Community Health Center Inc$25,00010%
Family Equality$25,00011%
Youth Pride Inc$20,00033%
The Theater Offensive Inc$20,00022%
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$20,00020%
Victory Programs Inc$15,00030%
Seacology$10,00020%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10,00010%
Bagly Inc$10,00011%
Americans for Oxford Inc$10,00010%
East Bay Food Pantry$5,00011%
Confetti Foundation$5,0001n/a
Hope & Main$5,00011%

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($419k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc: $115,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGlaad Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGlbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSero Project Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom for All Americans: $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFenway Community Health Center Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Equality: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYouth Pride Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetThe Theater Offensive Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBeth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVictory Programs Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeacology: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBagly Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAmericans for Oxford Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEast Bay Food Pantry: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHope & Main: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Wild Geese Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation

How much does Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation give?
Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $187,000 in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Civil Rights (32%), Health (19%), Philanthropy (9%).
Who are Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund Inc ($115k), Glaad Inc ($50k), Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc ($30k).
Does Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wild Geese Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Tides Foundation.
Where is Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation based?
Esmond Harmsworth 1997 Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 32 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2026) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2020, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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