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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 106 grants below total $9,887,078 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $706,619,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $696,731,922 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k54 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k43 grants · $3.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $5.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Technology Review Inc | $4,204,206 |
| MIT International Inc | $843,639 |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $200,000 |
| Empirical Resolution Inc | $150,000 |
| ImpactAssetsInc | $150,000 |
| SXD Inc | $130,400 |
| Alumni Assoc of Alpha Mu Chapter of Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity Inc | $125,793 |
| My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc | $125,000 |
| Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research | $111,150 |
| Zeta Phi Chapter House Corporation of Alpha Phi International Fraternity In | $106,202 |
| Forma LLC | $105,000 |
| Lubavitch of Cambridge Inc | $100,000 |
| Heterodox Academy | $100,000 |
| CoFlo Medical | $100,000 |
| The Regents of the University of California | $98,274 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +15% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.0M 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
- TRTechnology Review Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $31M · revenue +25% · 26% of their budget
- PBPHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATION7× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +216%
- PSPHI SIGMA KAPPA GRAND CHAPTER OF OMICRON6× · 2018–2025 · $780k · revenue +147% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- ACAxim Collaborative Incone grant, 2019 · $5.0M · revenue -67%
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $306k · revenue +26%
Trustees of Tufts Collegegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $275k · revenue +39%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Health International Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Hack Foundation 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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
194 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. 194 of the 341 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Technology Review Inc ↗
- Who funds Axim Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds BETA NU HOUSE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MIT International Inc ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds PARITYORG INC (FKA OPERATION 50-50 INC) ↗
- Who funds PHI BETA EPSILON CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PHI SIGMA KAPPA GRAND CHAPTER OF OMICRON ↗
- Who funds DELTA KAPPA EPSILON INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Zeta Phi Chapter House Corporation Alpha Phi International Fraternity Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BETA FOUNDATION A FRATERNITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds My Brother's Keeper Task Force Inc ↗
- Who funds ALUMNI ASSOC OF ALPHA MU CHAPTER OF PHI KAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds HETERODOX ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOVER CLUB OF MIT INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA ZETA ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LAMBDA PHI CHAPTER OF THE ALPHA DELTA PHI FRATERNITY I ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds STEM FROM DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Solar Freeze Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN W OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHI OMEGA FRATERNITY INC ↗
- Who funds INC ALUMNI PSI DELTAPHI DELTA THETA FR ↗
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: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Elevate Prize Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Tr Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Ffwd · Ploughshares Foundation · Albert O Wilson Foundation Inc · The Lander Family Charitable Foundation
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 Massachusetts Institute of Technology 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.
- Hera Inc — 100% of income from government
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Franklin W Olin College of Engineering Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Community Day School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
- The New England Council Inc — 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.