· Private foundation
Herbert Fales Educational Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AT AMHERST | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE | $8,000 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $8,000 |
| BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY | $6,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $4,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND | $4,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +32%- CUCANISIUS UNIVERSITY4× · 2019–2022 · $22k · revenue +6%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE4× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- ECEASTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVone grant, 2024 · $8k
- ICITHACA COLLEGEone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -9%
- TUThe University of Tampa Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +64%
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.
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Education and Research
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…
Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…
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.
See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 31 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
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- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The University of Tampa Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Herbert Fales Educational Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Herbert Fales Educational Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
- The University of Tampa Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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