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Inavale Foundation Inc

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.

$4.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Arts & Culture$7.4MEducation$5.2MFood & Nutrition$2.1MReligion$1.8MPublic Benefit$200kCivil Rights$174kHousing & Shelter$125kInternational$68kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.7M
$9,600
Median grant
8
States reached
$870k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
METROPOLITAN OPERA$2,000,000
CARLETON COLLEGE$1,200,000
Individual grant recipient$500,000
RESIST$160,000
GRUB ST INC$60,000
TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH$20,000
OLD CAMBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH$9,600
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$5,000
MARA ELEPHANT PROJECT$5,000
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER$4,000
NEBRASKA STATE HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,000
KATALUMA REFUGEE HOSPITAL$1,000
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$450
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ABOUT-FACE: $1k → 10%ABOUT-FACE: $500 → 10%ABOUT-FACE: $500 → 10%THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $3k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $101k → 16%THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 11%THE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $1k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $500 → 16%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $2k → 8%HOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT: $1k → 8%LITTLE BROTHERS FIRENDS OF THE ELDERLY-BOSTON: $1k → 16%CHILDREN'S ROOM: $10k → 8%THE CHILDREN'S ROOM: $5k → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$17M · 36 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
41

Total granted

$17M
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+7%

Still filing today

75%
66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $660k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    6× · 2018–2024 · $5.2M · revenue +26%
  • TW
    THE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $3.0M · revenue +50% · 56% of their budget
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $1.5M · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • R
    RCWMS
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -7%
  • KC
    KENMORE CENTER ONCOLOGY DEPARTMENT
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
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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3
Waterorg

Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.

International
4
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
5
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

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7
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
8
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
9
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Counterpart International Inc

For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…

International
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food for the Poor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nisgua. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsYouth Sports ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%7%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%39%35–55yr16%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%0%10–20yr16%1%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%79%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,507

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.

04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/55
Grantees still filing
34/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

METROPOLITAN OPERA — $4,184,600 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $1,547,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCOLD CAMBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCH — $1,360,634 · OtherOLD CAMBRIDGE BAPTIST CHURCHIndividual grant recipient — $500,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGRUB ST INC — $475,000 · OtherGRUB ST INC+41 more — $693,460 · Other+41 moreCARLETON COLLEGE — $5,150,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGE+3 more — $1,200 · EducationTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $3,018,300 · Arts & CultureTHE WILLA CATHER FO…+4 more — $51,050 · Arts & CultureRESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND MINISTRY IN THE SOUTH INC — $370,000 · ReligionPINE STREET INN INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $7,500 · Human ServicesMercy Ships International — $16,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $10,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $6,000 · InternationalCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $5,000 · InternationalFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $3,000 · International+5 more — $6,100 · InternationalBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $25,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Other$8,760,694Education$5,151,200Arts & Culture$3,069,350Religion$370,000Human Services$137,500International$67,100Health$30,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCARLETON COLLEGE — $5,150,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE WILLA CATHER FOUNDATION — $3,018,300 over 4y, 56% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $1,547,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetRESOURCE CENTER FOR WOMEN AND MINISTRY IN THE SOUTH INC — $370,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetRESIST INC — $160,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNISGUA — $120,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetArlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director — $30,500 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America — $20,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International — $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKATALUMA INC — $12,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF OMAHA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARA ELEPHANT PROJECT USA INC — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARLINGTON EATS INC — $6,510 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMercy Corps — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VALLEY CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC — $5,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S HUNGER FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEED THE CHILDREN INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOMELESS EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC — $3,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABOUT-FACE MEDIA LITERACY INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Farm School Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FOR THE POOR INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN WATER ACTION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEN AMERICAN CENTER INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Sherwood Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Lincoln Financial Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…Network for GoodRenaissance Charitabl…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Boston Foundation IncMA15.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Sherwood Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Inavale Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Food for the Poor Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 79 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines