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Fidelity Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4037 grants · $4.9M
- $10k–50k4 grants · $92k
- $50k–250k147 grants · $23M
- $250k+242 grants · $128M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES | $10,000,000 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $5,050,000 |
| NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST | $3,300,000 |
| COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM | $2,500,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF PALM BEACH COUNTY | $2,500,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $2,500,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $2,500,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| ADOPT-A-STUDENT FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY | $2,000,000 |
| UPSTREAM USA INC | $2,000,000 |
| BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION | $1,500,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY INC | $1,200,000 |
| NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST | $1,000,000 |
| THE CHILDREN'S THEATRE OF CINCINNATI | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $41.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 83% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
1215 repeat relationships — 818 still active in FY2024, 397 since wound down; 184 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42M 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
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS6× · 2019–2024 · $37M · revenue +36%
NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $22M · revenue +448% · 83% of their budget
HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES3× · 2021–2024 · $20M · revenue +71%
Funded once
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INCone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue -43%
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2.5M · revenue +95%- FOFriends of Acadiagraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +88% · 33% of their budget
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.
Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…
An independent liberal arts college offering undergraduate, graduate and professional programs.
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Laurence's purpose is to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students.
See schedule o to create a diverse and inclusive community of learners committed to a challenging and supportive educational experience that will foster the intellectual, moral, emotional, and physical development of each student.
See schedule o the philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Offer a challenging education that develops the qualities of mind, spirit and body for students.
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To be the innovative leader and ongoing advocate for experiential education in pre-k - 8th grade.
Inspire students to contribute to knowledge, justice and positive change.
Brunswick is an independent college-preparatory day school for boys in grades pre-k through 12. students succeed by annually advancing matriculation, culminating with a 100% placement record for senior boys at nationally recognized, highly…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Pioneers and the most unlike its peers is La Clinica Tepeyac. 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 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
1675 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. 1675 of the 2,000 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds CAMP BEECH CLIFF ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RANGELEY LAKES HERITAGE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds Friends of Katahdin Woods & Waters ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds The Henry Francis du Pont Winterthur Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds World Music Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds Forest Society of Maine ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
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: Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Wellington Management Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 Fidelity 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.
- Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
- Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- North Florida Land Trust Inc — 81% of income from government
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Stevens Institute of Technology — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- World Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Groundwork Jacksonville Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Digital Harbor Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Natural Resources Council Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Jersey Performing Arts Center Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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