· Private foundation
International Citizens Foundation Inc
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k9 grants · $145k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL CITIZENS CHARITABLE FUND | $1,225,147 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $25,000 |
| DORCHESTER BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL THE WORLD | $20,000 |
| SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION - MYSTIC AQUARIUM | $15,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS | $10,000 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY INTERNATIONAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 33% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +139% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2021, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +47%- STSCHOOL THE WORLD INC5× · 2017–2021 · $103k · revenue +164%
- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +447%
Funded once
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +1%
- DADERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEESgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +44%
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE HSone grant, 2017 · $10k
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…
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The mission of the academy is to study and teach the truths of the natural and spiritual worlds in the light of the old testament, the new testament, and the writings of emanuel swedenborg. this is done at the academy of the new church…
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
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.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
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…
Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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.
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY ACADEMY TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY 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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization International Citizens Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from International Citizens Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Bentley University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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