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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.

$263k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$543kYouth Development$438kCommunity Improvement$170kScience & Tech$140kPublic Benefit$130kPhilanthropy$73kEmployment$42kHealth$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION$20,000
MASSINC$20,000
RAW ART WORKS$17,000
LEAP FOR EDUCATION$17,000
KIPP CHARTER SCHOOL LYNN$17,000
THRIVE SCHOLARS$15,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$15,000
ALMA DEL MAR CHARTER SCHOOL$12,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
GIRLS INC WORCESTER$10,000
KIDS IN TECH$10,000
GIRLS INC LYNN$10,000
ATLANTIS CHARTER SCHOOL$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS OF LAWRENCE$8,000
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$8,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS: $3k → 11%THE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT: $5k → 16%THE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT: $3k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $50k → 16%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.
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 50 repeat orgs$176k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
15

Total granted

$1.6M
$158k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+2%

Still filing today

56%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • WM
    WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $157k · revenue +23%
  • SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
  • LF
    LEAP for Education Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +198%

Funded once

  • THE MARION INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -3%
  • LH
    LYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -55%
  • MI
    MASS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
2
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
3
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
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
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
6
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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7
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
8
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
9
Junior Achievement of Southern Ma

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…

International
10
Wheaton College

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…

Education
11
Dean College

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,…

Education
12
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Tech Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/42
Grantees still filing
31/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RAW ART WORKS INC: $72,500 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCKIPP CHARTER SCHOOL LYNN: $66,500 · OtherKIPP CHARTER SCHOOL LYNNMASS INC: $60,000 · OtherMASS INCIndividual grant recipient: $60,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALMA DEL MAR CHARTER SCHOOL: $59,000 · OtherALMA DEL MAR CHARTER SCHOOLGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $38,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS OF LAWRENCE: $31,000 · OtherATLANTIS CHARTER SCHOOL: $30,000 · Other+32 more: $368,500 · Other+32 moreLEAP for Education Inc: $75,000 · EducationLEAP for Education In…THRIVE SCHOLARS: $52,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSICIVICS INC: $42,000 · EducationICIVICS INCTrustees of Tufts College: $40,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts Col…KIDS IN TECH INC: $36,000 · EducationKIDS IN TECH INCYEAR UP INC: $29,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCLET'S GET READY INC: $18,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $12,000 · Education+7 more: $43,000 · Education+7 moreWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $156,750 · PhilanthropyWELLINGTON MAN…THE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARION INS…The Hestia Fund: $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Hestia Fun…+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $37,500 · Youth DevelopmentINVERSANT INC: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentLITERATIONS CORP: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $8,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $97,000 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesTHE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human Services+1 more: $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC: $60,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$785,500Education$347,000Philanthropy$226,750Youth Development$139,000Arts & Culture$127,000Human Services$111,000Crime & Legal$60,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $156,750 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $97,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $72,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS: $52,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $45,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetICIVICS INC: $42,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER: $38,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $37,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN TECH INC: $36,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hestia Fund: $25,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetLYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC: $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $23,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBEYOND WALLS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetINVERSANT INC: $17,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLITERATIONS CORP: $15,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAlumni & Friends of Lynn Classical High School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONEGOAL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC: $3,000 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 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 Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • 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 The Hestia Fund ↗
  • Who funds LYNN HOUSING AUTHORITY DEVELOPMENT GROUP INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Amelia Peabody Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…Wellington Management…United Way Of Massach…The John H and H Naom…Richard & Susan Smith…Salem Five Charitable…William E Schrafft an…Essex County Communit…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA42.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Move the World Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Move the World Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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