· Private foundation
New England Biolabs Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k91 grants · $310k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $416k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE | $234,500 |
| CULTURAL SURVIVAL | $100,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN BIRD CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND | $25,000 |
| MADRE | $20,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC (MASS AUDUBON) | $20,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| ECOLOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND | $20,000 |
| SALEM SOUND COASTWATCH (SSCW) | $20,000 |
| PACHAMAMA'S PATH | $20,000 |
| FAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL | $20,000 |
| GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND | $20,000 |
| IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $20,000 |
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 US giving — 72% of grant dollars ($5.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 28% that went abroad ($2.0M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 28% of all-years giving ($2.0M)
13 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 15% of New England Biolabs Foundation’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. Read by recipient address, 47% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 43% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
198 repeat relationships — 98 still active in FY2024, 100 since wound down; 15 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $96k 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
- CACREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $955k · revenue +583% · 26% of their budget
- CSCULTURAL SURVIVAL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $330k · revenue +294%
- LILand is Life Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +105%
Funded once
- FFFAUNA & FLORA INTERNATIONAL USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +554%
- BIBAY ISLANDS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $21k
- MFMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +18%
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.
Nature and culture international conserves biologically diverse landscapes in latin america, in concert with local cultures, for the well-being of the planet.
Natura International conserves rainforests and other key natural ecosystems and the endangered species they contain through creation of protected areas in collaboration with local governments and communities in Latin America. In this way…
The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Endangered Species International is strongly committed to reversing the trend of human-induced species extinction, saving endangered animals, and preserving wild places.
Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Our organization's mission is "conserving galpagos for nature and community," which we realize by saving imperiled species, restoring ecosystems, and building a more sustainable society in the galapagos archipelago.
Our mission is to protect vital areas of our natural world for the benefit of wildlife, habitats, and people by inspiring collaborative action. Our vision is a world where wildlife and people flourish in healthy ecosystems that sustain us…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
To advance the preservation of the amazon rainforest and conservation research and to disseminate knowledge regarding the impact of human development and climate change on the diversity of the ecosystem, wildlife, and plant life of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynn Museum and Historical Society 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 26 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 327 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 CREATIVE ACTION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Land is Life Inc ↗
- Who funds ECO-LOGIC DEVELOPMENT FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
- Who funds IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds EL PORVENIR ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PACHAMAMAS PATH INC ↗
- Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds MARALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PAN AFRICAN SANCTUARY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ANDEAN ALLIANCE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds OnePlanet USA Inc ↗
- Who funds Groundswell International Inc ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds INGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR SOUP INC ↗
- Who funds GROWING HOPE GLOBALLY ↗
- Who funds INMED PARTNERSHIPS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Camino Verde 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Brace Cove Foundation Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable 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 New England Biolabs 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.
- Global Diversity Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Essex National Heritage Commission Inc — 87% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Pan African Sanctuary Alliance Inc — 68% of income from government
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc — 45% of income from government
- Bike to the Sea Inc — 25% of income from government
- Salem Sound 2000 Inc — 20% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Beyond Walls Inc — 6% of income from government
- Manship Artist Residence and Studios Inc — 5% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Actors Studio of Newburyport Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Clearwater Marine Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Green Beverly 107Q Inc — 1% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts 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.
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