· Private foundation
John P Joseph & Kelley a Joseph Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URI FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| RENEWAL HOMES | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| SOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those 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 +63% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 26 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE3× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +63%- WSWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC3× · 2019–2025 · $34k · revenue +319%
RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $10k
- UMUMASS MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k
- FPFUSE PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $8k · revenue -4%
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.
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.
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…
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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…
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…
Smith college educates women of promise for lives of distinction and purpose. a college of and for the world, smith college links the power of the liberal arts to excellence in research and scholarship, developing leaders for society's…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The multiple myeloma research foundation (mmrf) is the largest nonprofit in the world solely focused on accelerating acurefor multiple myeloma patient. we drive the development and delivery of next-generation therapies, leverage data to…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 80 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 WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds FUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKSHOPS FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WOLF SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRECISION MUSEUM 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: Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John P Joseph & Kelley a Joseph Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P Joseph & Kelley a Joseph Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
- Assumption University: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
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