· Private foundation
Longfield Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Longfield Family Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Longfield Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 6 organizations, $143k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WGBH | $40,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $35,000 |
| EDWARD BROOKE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BOSTON PREP CHARTER SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $5,000 |
| EDUCATORS 4 EXCELLENCE | $2,500 |
| BOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| SPRINGFIELD PREP CHARTER SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| PIONEER INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| UNCOMMON SCHOOLS ROXBURY PREP | $1,000 |
| BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 36% of Longfield Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 47%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2021, 24 since wound down. Read against FY2021, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- EREDUCATION REFORM NOW INC3× · 2018–2021 · $85k · revenue +1%
EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +6%
MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC3× · 2019–2021 · $25k · revenue +191%
Funded once
- 5I50CAN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +529%
- BEBOSTON EDUCATION FUNDone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TATOXICS ACTION CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue -89%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…
To create and inspire better ways to give every student an educational foundation for lifelong success. we imagine a world where every student attends a school that meets them where they are, adapts to the unique ways they learn, and…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 55 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION REFORM NOW INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BUSINESS ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN TOP MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION PIONEERS ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TOXICS ACTION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COUNCIL ON TEACHER QUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Lynch Foundation · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gates Foundation · The Sidney a Swensrud Foundation · Wellington Management Foundation · City Fund · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Longfield Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Longfield Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Resources for Justice Inc: 34% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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