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Joia Foundation Inc at a glance

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Joia Foundation Inc

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.

$4.1M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
7
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Joia Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Joia Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 13 organizations, $4M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

5
’21
11
’22
13
’23
0
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$33MInternational$5.5MHealth$600kEducation$400kHuman Services$340kCrime & Legal$70kReligion$50kCivil Rights$50kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k9 grants · $135k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $450k
  • $250k+1 grant · $3.5M
$20,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$19k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$3,500,000
SAVING TEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC$100,000
SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND$100,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION (DBA BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL)$100,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$100,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$50,000
FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC$20,000
GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC (DBA GLAD)$20,000
NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC$20,000
NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATIONAL FUND INC$15,000
THE BAIL PROJECT INC$10,000
OUT METROWEST INC$10,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC$10,000
EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%SAVING TEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC: $100k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $100k → 8%SAVING TEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC: $100k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $100k → 8%SAVING TEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC: $100k → 14%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 12 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
2

Total granted

$6.6M
$150k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+17%

Still filing today

92%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Civil RightsHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    3× · 2021–2023 · $300k · revenue +60%
  • FP
    FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +59%
  • NS
    NATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $40k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • Trustees of Tufts College
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +17%
  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
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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5
Lehigh University

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
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

—
8
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 18 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $32,534,595 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+2 more: $340,000 · Community ImprovementPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,500,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEAL…Children's Hospital Corporation: $300,000 · Health+1 more: $50,000 · HealthSAVINGTEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $250,000 · Human ServicesTrustees of Tufts College: $100,000 · EducationFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $50,000 · OtherGLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC (DBA GLAD): $40,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $40,000 · OtherTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $20,000 · OtherNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $30,000 · Civil RightsLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsOUT METROWEST INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil RightsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 · International
Community Improvement$32,874,595Health$5,850,000Human Services$550,000Education$100,000Other$150,000Civil Rights$80,000International$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $32,534,595 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $5,500,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAVINGTEENS IN CRISIS COLLABORATIVE INC: $300,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $250,000 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA11.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joia Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joia Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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