· Private foundation
Learning by Giving Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k22 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,947 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,004 |
| THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| N'FUNGOLA SIBO AFRICAN DANCE & DRUM COMPANY INC | $7,000 |
| HONORING INDIVIDUAL POWER & STRENGTH HIPS | $7,000 |
| BROTHERS BUILDING A BETTER NATION | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL | $5,000 |
| AGING & DISABILITY RESOURCE CENTER OF BROWN COUNTY | $5,000 |
| JUSTICE 4 HOUSING INC | $5,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| RESIST | $5,000 |
| OHIO UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UC BERKELEY | $4,950 |
| MAKE MUSIC NOLA | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $222k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +82% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FOFOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC6× · 2018–2023 · $62k · revenue +139%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY3× · 2018–2020 · $36k · revenue +87%- TGThe George Washington University3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- SSEEone grant, 2017 · $212k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $158k · revenue +18%
- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $36k · revenue +34%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.…
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…
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…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
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…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aspire Appalachia Inc. 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.
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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
92 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. 92 of the 149 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK AT BINGHAMTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The George Washington University ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RACQUET UP DETROIT ↗
- Who funds HAMPDEN-SYDNEY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY AT ALBANY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED CHURCHES OF ALAMANCE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE REVEILLE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000
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 Learning by Giving 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.
- Learn to Cope Inc — 89% of income from government
- Roxbury Youthworks Inc — 88% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Legendary Legacies Inc — 58% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Portland Community College Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Reveille Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.
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