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Martin and Mary L Boyer Foundation at a glance

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Martin and Mary L Boyer 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.

$568k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.2MArts & Culture$810kHealth$805kHuman Services$615kFood & Nutrition$390kInternational$308kReligion$261kHousing & Shelter$260kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $313k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$9.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUF - JEWISH UNITED FUND$150,000
RAVINIA FESTIVAL$50,000
GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY$50,000
WTTWWFMT PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE$30,000
ILLINOIS HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER$25,000
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
THE ARK$25,000
KESHET$25,000
NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER$25,000
ILLINI CHABAD CENTER FOR JEWISH LIFE$20,800
MINDFULNESS LEADER NFP$20,000
SHARSHERET$20,000
MISERICORDIA$15,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA$12,500
BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION$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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $550k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $100k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $25k → 14%NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%STREET SAMARITANS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $20k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS: $10k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
NJ
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
AL
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 44 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

44 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
13

Total granted

$4.8M
$120k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+38%

Still filing today

61%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthInternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • NS
    NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER
    9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +38%
  • GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +140%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $238k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • SC
    SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUN
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • WP
    WTTWWWCI PUBLIC BROADCASTING SERVICE
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -23%
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
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Inc

Mjhs health system is a charitable not-for-profit established to support the activities of affiliated organizations. mjhs is built on the core values of compassion, dignity and respect, first established by the four brooklyn ladies in…

Health
2
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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3
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
4
Inova Health System Foundation

Inova health system foundation is the parent of inova health system (ihs). ihs provides healthcare and related services throughout northern virginia and the greater metropolitan washington, d.c. area, including certain contiguous counties…

Health
5
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
6
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Committed to exceptional healthcare quality for all and actively engaged with our community, einstein drives scientific discovery and educates compassionate leaders in health and science.

Education
7
Fajr Scientific

To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.

Science & Tech
8
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
9
Uchicago Medicine Network Inc

Uchicago medicine network, inc. supports and encourages health and human service by providing support, directly or indirectly to ingalls memorial hospital, the university of chicago medical center, and other related tax-exempt…

Health
10
University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health
11
Metropolitan Jewish Health System Foundation

Operating under the name mjhs foundation, the mission of this philanthropic organization is to raise the funds necessary to support the charitable health care efforts of the organizations within the mjhs health system family. with roots…

Health
12
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Billings Clinic Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Special Kids Foundation. 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

35 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. 35 of the 63 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
31/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JUF - JEWISH UNITED FUND: $925,000 · OtherJUF - JEWISH UNITED FUNDRAVINIA: $400,000 · OtherRAVINIATHE NORA PROJECT: $180,000 · OtherTHE NORA PROJECTMISERICORDIA: $170,000 · OtherKESHET: $155,000 · OtherFAMILY ACTION NETWORK: $150,000 · OtherHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $150,000 · OtherHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $120,000 · OtherDEBORAH'S PLACE: $120,000 · Other+35 more: $890,800 · Other+35 moreNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $410,000 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE…COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HO…STREET SAMARITANS: $70,000 · Human ServicesSTREET SAMA…GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $390,000 · Food & NutritionMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $237,500 · InternationalTilting Futures Incorporated: $50,000 · International+3 more: $25,000 · InternationalSharsheret Inc: $130,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $95,000 · HealthLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $40,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $10,000 · HealthLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $5,000 · HealthJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $235,000 · PhilanthropyANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $195,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,260,800Human Services$550,000Food & Nutrition$390,000International$312,500Health$300,000Philanthropy$235,000Civil Rights$205,000

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 budgetNORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER: $410,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY: $390,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $237,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO: $235,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $195,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NORA PROJECT: $180,000 over 8y, 6.2% of budgetKESHET: $155,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC: $150,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY ACTION NETWORK: $150,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetSharsheret Inc: $130,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetHADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $120,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetDEBORAH'S PLACE: $120,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois: $95,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC: $70,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSTREET SAMARITANS: $70,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTilting Futures Incorporated: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSpecial Kids Foundation: $50,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetWARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLa Rabida Children's Hospital: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMindfulness Leader NFP: $35,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetEVANSTON SCHOLARS: $25,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHICAGO HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER WELLNESS CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCONQUER CANCER FOUNDATION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMOTE AREA MEDICAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds NORTH SHORE SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF METROPOLITAN CHICAGO ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE NORA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds KESHET ↗
  • Who funds HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL FOUNDATION OF ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY ACTION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Sharsheret Inc ↗
  • Who funds HADLEY INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds DEBORAH'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds Planned Parenthood of Illinois ↗
  • Who funds BILLINGS CLINIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ILLINOIS INC ↗
  • Who funds STREET SAMARITANS ↗
  • Who funds Tilting Futures Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds RAVINIA FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Special Kids Foundation ↗
  • Who funds WARREN W CHERRY PRESCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds La Rabida Children's Hospital ↗
  • Who funds Mindfulness Leader NFP ↗
  • Who funds EVANSTON SCHOLARS ↗
  • Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION 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.

The Chicago Community…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
The Chicago Community TrustIL15.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Chicago Community Trust · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Martin and Mary L Boyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin and Mary L Boyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Sharsheret Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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 63 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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