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Ledgeways Charitable Trust

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.

$330k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.

Philanthropy$977kFood & Nutrition$560kEducation$230kArts & Culture$105kHealth$65kEnvironment$55kCivil Rights$50kReligion$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $145k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$125,000
WBUR$60,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$35,000
THE HEARD MUSEUM$25,000
TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$25,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC$20,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$10,000
BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS$10,000
FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$10,000
DISCOVERY MUSEUM$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE HEARD MUSEUM: $25k → 11%DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $10k → 8%HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $20k → 11%PETER A BANKS ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP FUND: $5k → 16%AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50k → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $35k → 14%FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE: $10k → 12%THE HEARD MUSEUM: $25k → 11%LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING: $10k → 8%PETER A BANKS ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP FUND: $5k → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $25k → 14%THE HEARD MUSEUM: $10k → 11%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $10k → 8%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $125k → 16%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $100k → 16%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $100k → 16%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $100k → 16%THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $100k → 16%GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK: $35k → 16%BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 16%WBUR: $60k → 16%WBUR: $50k → 16%WBUR: $40k → 16%WBUR: $30k → 16%BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $25k → 16%WBUR: $20k → 16%WBUR: $10k → 16%BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS: $10k → 16%WBUR: $10k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON: $300k → 16%COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON: $59k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $25k → 16%PETER A BANKS MD ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP FUND: $5k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $5k → 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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 7 repeat orgs$105k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$1.0M
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+148%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCivil RightsReligionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $560k · revenue +67%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $220k · revenue +32%
  • TH
    THE HEARD MUSEUM
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +65%
  • LC
    LEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +148%
  • PA
    PETER A BANKS MD ENDOWED FELLOWSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

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
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
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
6
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
7
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
10
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
11
Fordham University

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.

Education
12
Trustees for Harvard University

To facilitate harvard university's scientific, literary, and educational activities in washington, dc.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lehrhaus Center for Jewish Life and Learning 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $560,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $220,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY+6 more — $65,000 · Other+6 moreCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $359,000 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish Philanthropies o…Boston Foundation Inc — $250,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $368,000 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENT…THE HEARD MUSEUM — $60,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $60,000 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $55,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · Civil Rights
Other$845,000Philanthropy$609,000Community Improvement$368,000Arts & Culture$105,000Health$60,000Environment$55,000Civil Rights$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $560,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $368,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $359,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $220,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEARD MUSEUM — $60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $55,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEHRHAUS CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE AND LEARNING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $10,000 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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ledgeways Charitable Trust 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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 17 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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