· Private foundation
Move the World 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSINC | $20,000 |
| WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| KIPP CHARTER SCHOOL LYNN | $17,000 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION | $17,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $17,000 |
| THRIVE SCHOLARS | $15,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $15,000 |
| ALMA DEL MAR CHARTER SCHOOL | $12,000 |
| GIRLS INC LYNN | $10,000 |
| ATLANTIS CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| KIDS IN TECH | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INC WORCESTER | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS OF LAWRENCE | $8,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $8,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WMWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +23%
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +1%- LFLEAP for Education Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +198%
Funded once
THE MARION INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -15%- LHLYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -55%
- MIMASS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTHone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Junior achievement of southern massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skill they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Tech Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alumni & Friends of Lynn Classical High School 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 30 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 72 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
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 WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds ICIVICS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds The Hestia Fund ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND WALLS INC ↗
- Who funds LET'S GET READY INC ↗
- Who funds INVERSANT INC ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Essex County Community Foundation 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 Move the World 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.
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Walls Inc — 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.