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Matthew A & Susan B Weatherbie Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$392k
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
5
States reached
$160k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

86% of Matthew A & Susan B Weatherbie Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to President And Fellows Of Harvard College, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Matthew A & Susan B Weatherbie Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $392k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’20
15
’21
12
’22
15
’23
12
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0182% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$2.3MArts & Culture$314kEnvironment$118kCivil Rights$90kSocial Science$45kHousing & Shelter$45kHealth$20kInternational$13kScience & Tech$10kOther$634k
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k3 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $166k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum$160,000
President and Fellows of Harvard College$50,000
Museum of Fine Arts$33,000
Mount Holyoke College$25,000
US Naval War College Foundation$15,000
Catholic Schools Foundation$12,000
Handel & Haydn Society$11,000
Montana Land Reliance Foundation$10,000
Initiative for a Competitive Inner City$10,000
The Hoover Institution at Stanford University$10,000
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts$10,000
NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund$10,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center$10,000
ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts$10,000
Historians of Netherlandish Art$6,000
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Harvard University: $1.1M → 8%Museum of Fine Arts: $48k → 16%The Hoover Institution at Stanford University: $10k → 8%US Naval War College Foundation: $15k → 7%Friends of Independent Schools and Better Education (aka FRISBE): $323k → 9%Loon Preservation Committee: $17k → 9%Squam Lakes Conservation Society: $50k → 10%President and Fellows of Harvard College: $50k → 8%Mount Holyoke College: $150k → 12%Museum of Fine Arts: $36k → 16%The Hoover Institution at Stanford University: $10k → 8%NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: $10k → 17%US Naval War College Foundation: $15k → 7%Loon Preservation Committee: $16k → 9%Mount Holyoke College: $100k → 12%Museum of Fine Arts: $33k → 16%The Hoover Institution at Stanford University: $10k → 8%NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: $10k → 17%US Naval War College Foundation: $10k → 7%Mount Holyoke College: $75k → 12%Museum of Fine Arts: $33k → 16%NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: $10k → 17%US Naval War College Foundation: $10k → 7%Mount Holyoke College: $25k → 12%Museum of Fine Arts: $32k → 16%NAACP Legal Defense & Education Fund: $10k → 17%Mount Holyoke College: $25k → 12%Associates of the University of Toronto: $20k → 17%City Year: $183k → 16%City Year: $98k → 16%Handel & Haydn Society: $55k → 16%Handel & Haydn Society: $15k → 16%Handel & Haydn Society: $11k → 16%Handel & Haydn Society: $10k → 16%Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $10k → 16%Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center: $10k → 16%Historic New England: $10k → 16%Catholic Schools Foundation: $24k → 16%Catholic Schools Foundation: $12k → 16%ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts: $10k → 16%ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts: $10k → 16%Initiative for a Competitive Inner City: $10k → 16%Boston Schools Fund: $75k → 16%Boston Athenaeum: $285k → 16%Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: $160k → 16%Citizen Schools Inc: $75k → 16%Boston Athenaeum: $35k → 16%Boston Athenaeum: $35k → 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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 16 repeat orgs$515k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against -57% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

$1.9M
$483k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
-57%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsSocial ScienceHousing & 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

  • PO
    PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $515k · revenue +142%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $375k · revenue +19%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $282k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of Independent Schools and Better Education (aka FRISBE)
    one grant, 2022 · $323k
  • BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue -100%
  • SL
    SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -57%

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
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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2
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
3
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
7
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
8
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
12
Lehigh University

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Naacp Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr22%15%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr13%42%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr22%5%20–35yr14%12%35–55yr13%76%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/29
the rest of the field
10%
2,920/28,023

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.

04the grantee network

29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,100,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegePROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $515,000 · EducationPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUMTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $375,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGECITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $85,000 · Education+4 more — $191,000 · Education+4 moreFriends of Independent Schools and Better Education (aka FRISBE) — $322,500 · OtherFriends of Independen…CITY YEAR INC — $281,666 · OtherCITY YEAR INC+6 more — $73,250 · Other+6 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $181,255 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $91,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYM…+3 more — $17,000 · Arts & Culture+3 moreSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $50,000 · EnvironmentLoon Preservation Committee — $33,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $25,000 · EnvironmentMONTANA LAND RELIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $45,000 · Civil RightsACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $45,000 · Civil RightsBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $45,000 · Social ScienceINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $45,000 · Housing & Shelter
Education$2,266,000Other$677,416Arts & Culture$314,255Environment$118,000Civil Rights$90,000Social Science$45,000Housing & Shelter$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM — $515,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE — $375,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $281,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $181,255 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $91,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON SCHOOLS FUND — $75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $45,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee — $33,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $13,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTANA LAND RELIANCE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOUNCIL FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE WRITING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHISTORIANS OF NETHERLANDISH ART — $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR ART RESEARCH INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Fidelity FoundationThe Orchard FoundationLovett-Woodsum Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…American Endowment Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Boston Foundation IncMA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Orchard Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Matthew A & Susan B Weatherbie Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
  • Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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
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 30 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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