· Private foundation
Grayson Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $189k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
- $250k+1 grant · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS HARVARD | $700,000 |
| WBUR RADIO STATION FUND | $125,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN TRUST FOR OXFORD UNIVERSITY | $45,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $35,000 |
| WBUR RADIO STATION FUND | $25,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $25,000 |
| WBUR RADIO STATION FUND | $25,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER (JIMMY FUND) | $25,000 |
| CATO INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| MATER CRISTI ANNUAL FUND | $20,000 |
| SAFE PASSAGE CAMINO SEGURO | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION | $10,000 |
| TCC EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +63% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 54 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 26 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $177k 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
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC3× · 2020–2022 · $784k · revenue +512%
MORE THAN WORDS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $135k · revenue +69%- CICATO INSTITUTE5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- RTRHODES TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $650k
- PAPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS (PLEDGE)one grant, 2023 · $150k
- RIRADCLIFFE INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $100k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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…
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Somerset Trust. 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 35 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) — 3% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 164 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 AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RHODES SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CATO INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds WARRIOR-SCHOLAR PROJECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds KING STREET CENTER INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · King Spruce Company · Westwind Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · George W Mergens 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 Grayson Family 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.
- King Street Center Inc — 43% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Intervale Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.