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Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc

The mission of the foundation is to champion efforts that prioritize community goals that challenge inequities and advance excellent, student-centered public education for all new england youth.

$21M
Granted FY2024still arriving
140
Grants FY2024still arriving
20
States reached
$3.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$47MCommunity Improvement$13MCivil Rights$12MYouth Development$10MHuman Services$7.3MPhilanthropy$5.4MArts & Culture$2.6MPublic Benefit$2.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 140 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $99k
  • $10k–50k35 grants · $568k
  • $50k–250k72 grants · $9.5M
  • $250k+20 grants · $11M
$100,000
Median grant
20
States reached
$543M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP$2,995,000
FSG INC$1,323,915
BROWN UNIVERSITY$850,000
FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK$600,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$500,000
ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY$500,000
NATIONAL NETWORK OF STATE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR INC$460,000
THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP$455,000
FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA$300,000
NEW VENTURE FUND$300,000
THE BRIDGESPAN GROUP$275,000
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC$274,500
EDUCATION RESOURCE STRATEGIES$265,000
THE LEADERSHIP ACADEMY$264,618
MID-ATLANTIC EQUITY CONSORTIUM$264,213
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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $12.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $150k → 16%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $102k → 7%AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $300k → 11%PROGRESO LATINO: $440k → 14%EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK: $100k → 14%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $100k → 7%AFRICAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC: $100k → 11%PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC: $900k → 17%SOUTH SHORE STARS INC: $145k → 7%EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK (BOGGS EDUCATIONAL CENTER PROJECT TEAM): $500k → 21%PROGRESO LATINO: $300k → 14%PROGRESO LATINO: $100k → 14%PORTLAND EMPOWERED MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION (MIRC): $523k → 7%PA'LANTE TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE INC: $121k → 17%PROGRESO LATINO: $100k → 14%PA'LANTE TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE: $100k → 17%VERMONT INTERFAITH ACTION: $100k → 10%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $300k → 7%EMPOWER YOURSELF LTD: $150k → 8%PORTLAND EMPOWERED MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION (MIRC): $102k → 7%LA COLABORATIVA: $600k → 16%THE CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $300k → 16%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $300k → 11%LA COLABORATIVA: $102k → 16%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $300k → 11%LA COLABORATIVA: $100k → 16%NATIONAL CARES MENTORING MOVEMENT: $150k → 17%SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $102k → 11%HIGHLANDER INSTITUTE: $300k → 14%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $100k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $100k → 11%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $229k → 12%THE PROSPERITY FOUNDATION: $150k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $112k → 12%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 12%PARENTSTOGETHER FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $100k → 12%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $300k → 8%URBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $300k → 12%URBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $100k → 12%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $750k → 16%ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $300k → 14%ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $120k → 14%ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $102k → 14%ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION: $100k → 14%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $300k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP: $183k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.
$77M · 204 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

204 repeat relationships — 91 still active in FY2024, 113 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

204
258

Total granted

$77M
$13M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+22%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.0M 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
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.9M · revenue +21%
  • RI
    RESIST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +242%
  • BC
    Beloved Community Inc
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue +117% · 43% of their budget

Funded once

  • PV
    PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $900k · revenue +35%
  • TA
    THE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue +145% · 46% of their budget
  • MI
    MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION
    one grant, 2023 · $670k · revenue -28%

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.

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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
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
3
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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4
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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5
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
6
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
7
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.

Education
8
Bpe Inc

Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…

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9
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
10
Equal Opportunity Schools

Equal opportunity schools' mission is to strengthen educator and system leader capacity to break down barriers to increase access, belonging, and success in rigorous college and career-prep secondary school courses for students of color…

Education
11
Springboard Collaborative

Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…

Human Services
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The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Springfield Pride Parade. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsUnited Way AffiliatesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Jewish Community Organizati…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Lgbtq+ Community SupportElementary Literacy TutoringPublic Library OperationsDance Arts OrganizationsCommunity Arts CentersChristian Youth CampsChristian Missionary Organi…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsSchool Parent OrganizationsEnvironmental Conservation …Youth Mentoring ProgramsCommunity College Foundatio…Youth Development CentersCommunity FoundationsYouth Development ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…School District FoundationsImmigrant Worker Support
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 26 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%5%<5yr14%14%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr16%15%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%9/498
the rest of the field
13%
240,387/1,819,067

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.

05the grantee network

445 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. 445 of the 507 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
121
Early backer (in before they grew)
433/445
Grantees still filing
297/445
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $5,850,117 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITYTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $4,146,000 · EducationTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC…THE EQUITY INSTITUTE — $1,014,000 · Education+43 more — $17,476,089 · Education+43 moreRESIST INC — $1,619,800 · OtherRESIST INCUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,355,000 · OtherMANCHESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $1,200,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MEDIATION (STUDENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL JUSTICE-SEJ) — $1,049,455 · OtherA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $1,511,880 · OtherNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND — $1,213,077 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 · Other+68 more — $20,807,981 · Other+68 moreTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $3,725,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BRIDGESPAN G…COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMON COUNSEL F…Beloved Community Inc — $1,547,639 · Community ImprovementBeloved Communit…FSG INC — $1,323,915 · Community ImprovementFSG INCBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,100,000 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSITYPARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY — $682,000 · Community ImprovementGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $579,000 · Community ImprovementBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION — $474,000 · Community Improvement+8 more — $1,920,201 · Community Improvement+8 moreLA COLABORATIVA INC — $1,207,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIV…PROGRESO LATINO — $977,000 · Human ServicesPROGRESO LATIN…PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC — $900,000 · Human ServicesPIONEER VALLEY…ALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION — $877,150 · Human ServicesALLIANCE OF RH…RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $775,000 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT…MAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $670,070 · Human ServicesMAINE IMMIGRAN…EDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK — $600,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $540,750 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC — $537,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA — $474,000 · Human ServicesURBAN COMMUNITY ALLIANCEINC — $449,250 · Human ServicesAFRICAN CARIBBEAN AMERICAN PARENTS OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES INC — $436,695 · Human Services+16 more — $3,691,738 · Human Services+16 moreFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $1,025,000 · PhilanthropyFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $942,130 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $861,500 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $595,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $500,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY — $442,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $358,000 · PhilanthropyNew Hampshire Charitable Foundation — $300,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $392,857 · PhilanthropyYOUTH IN ACTION INC — $714,000 · Youth DevelopmentRHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC — $662,000 · Youth DevelopmentPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT — $564,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE — $514,000 · Youth DevelopmentWABANAKI YOUTH IN SCIENCE INC — $367,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC — $318,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS AND MENTORS — $318,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING AUDACITY — $297,500 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $193,000 · Youth DevelopmentRIVERA MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $162,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $179,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $750,000 · Civil RightsUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $625,500 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC — $500,000 · Civil RightsRoot Social Justice Center Inc — $469,000 · Civil RightsOLNEYVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION — $395,000 · Civil RightsNH Center for Justice & Equity — $288,000 · Civil RightsMID ATLANTIC EQUITY CONSORTIUM INC — $264,213 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC — $250,000 · Civil RightsSHOWING UP FOR RACIAL JUSTICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $200,000 · Civil Rights+3 more — $300,000 · Civil Rights
Education$28,486,206Other$29,757,193Community Improvement$13,851,755Human Services$12,135,653Philanthropy$5,416,487Youth Development$4,288,500Civil Rights$4,041,713

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $5,850,117 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SCHOTT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC EDUCATION — $4,146,000 over 4y, 51% of budgetTHE BRIDGESPAN GROUP INC — $3,725,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $2,500,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetRESIST INC — $1,619,800 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetBeloved Community Inc — $1,547,639 over 4y, 43% of budgetA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC — $1,511,880 over 5y, 48% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,355,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetFSG INC — $1,323,915 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC EDUCATION SUPPORT FUND — $1,213,077 over 5y, 15% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $1,207,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $1,025,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHE EQUITY INSTITUTE — $1,014,000 over 3y, 66% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPROGRESO LATINO — $977,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $942,130 over 3y, 15% of budgetALLIANCE OF RHODE ISLAND SOUTHEAST ASIANS FOR EDUCATION — $877,150 over 5y, 27% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT — $862,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $861,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTEACHING LAB — $812,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC — $799,000 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetHAYMARKET PEOPLE'S FUND INC — $795,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $775,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC — $750,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetYOUTH IN ACTION INC — $714,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetProvidence Student Union — $714,000 over 5y, 90% of budgetCENTER FOR ADVANCING COMMUNITY — $712,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetPARENTS LEADING for EDUCATIONAL EQUITY — $682,000 over 3y, 80% of budgetMAINE IMMIGRANTS' RIGHTS COALITION — $670,070 over 1y, 18% of budgetRHODE ISLAND KIDS COUNT INC — $662,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetYOUTH MENTORING ACTION NETWORK — $650,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetUNBOUNDED LEARNING INC — $650,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc — $640,750 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC — $625,500 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE COALITION OF SCHOOLS EDUCATING BOYS OF COLOR INC — $617,800 over 3y, 52% of budgetSCHOOL BOARD PARTNERS — $600,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetEDUCATION FOR LIBERATION NETWORK — $600,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE — $595,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC — $587,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetMAINE INSIDE OUT — $579,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetGRANITE STATE ORGANIZING PROJECT INC — $579,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $574,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetPROVIDENCE YOUTH STUDENT MOVEMENT — $564,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc — $563,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE TEACHER COLLABORATIVE INC — $557,594 over 1y, 94% of budgetTeach Western Mass Inc — $554,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetNational Economic and Social Rights Initiative — $549,250 over 5y, 4.4% 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.

Barr FoundationCummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…Haymarket People's Fu…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way of Rhode I…The Hyams Foundation …William Caspar Graust…Point32health Foundat…Health Resources in A…The Schott Foundation…
Barr FoundationMA110.5× affinity82 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Point32health Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · The Schott Foundation for Public Education

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 Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc 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.

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no gov · 400%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • Center for Collaborative Education Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Mid Atlantic Equity Consortium Inc — 91% of income from government
  • Blue Hills Civic Association — 72% of income from government
  • Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc — 70% of income from government
  • South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
  • Palante Transformative Justice Inc — 52% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Parent Villages Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Charles Houston Cultural Project Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Root Social Justice Center Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • The Prosperity Foundation Inc — 37% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
  • African Caribbean American Parents of Children With Disabilities Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Rivera Memorial Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Teachers' Lounge Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Friends and Mentors — 12% of income from government
  • Teach Western Mass Inc — 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Education Justice Coalition of Vt — 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Education Resource Strategies Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
40get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely 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 507 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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