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Glass Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Glass Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$7.1MEnvironment$1.5MYouth Development$1.2MFood & Nutrition$1.1MHealth$695kInternational$650kEducation$410kAnimals$215kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $607k
  • $250k+1 grant · $300k
$50,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WYNDHAM LAND TRUST$300,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$200,000
THOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP$157,000
NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER$50,000
Individual grant recipient$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$50,000
FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES$50,000
BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK$50,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$25,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$10,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT$10,000
NATIONAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$10,000
ABBY'S HOUSE$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $800k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER: $50k → 12%BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK: $50k → 15%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

MT
NY
MA
SD
IA
CT
CA
CO
KY
VA
DC
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.

40%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.1M · 22 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
14

Total granted

$5.1M
$7.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+31%

Still filing today

68%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TE
    THOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +33%
  • BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +49%
  • NS
    NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • SG
    SCOTT GLASS DONOR ADVISED FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $7.0M
  • WL
    WYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC
    one grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +15%
  • TW
    THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue +31%
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

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8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
10
Westminster College

The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…

Education
11
Wilson College

Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.

Education
12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc; the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster House Inc. 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

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 42 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
24/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCOTT GLASS DONOR ADVISED FUND: $7,018,658 · OtherSCOTT GLASS DONOR ADVISED FUNDWYNDHAM LAND TRUST: $1,140,000 · OtherWYNDHAM LAND TRUSTMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $350,000 · Other+24 more: $1,137,500 · Other+24 moreTHOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC: $1,178,465 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMPSON E…BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $400,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $325,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $125,000 · InternationalTHE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $70,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $67,500 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $55,000 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $17,000 · Education+1 more: $10,000 · EducationWYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20,000 · EnvironmentFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$9,646,158Youth Development$1,178,465Human Services$800,000International$450,000Education$344,500Environment$330,000Food & Nutrition$250,000

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 budgetTHOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC: $1,178,465 over 8y, 11% of budgetBLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC: $400,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $400,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $325,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC: $250,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES: $250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $67,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInstitute for Responsible Technology: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THOMPSON ECUMENICAL EMPOWERMENT GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds BLESSINGS IN A BACKPACK INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
  • Who funds WYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ARLINGTON FREE CLINIC INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE INC ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EAGLE VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Responsible Technology ↗
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗

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.

Fallon Community Heal…Fidelity FoundationShell USA Company Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …American Endowment Fo…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Fallon Community Health Plan IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Wyndham Land Trust Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 42 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