· Private foundation
Oedel Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2018–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $1,200,000 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL | $700,000 |
| PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY | $500,000 |
| YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION | $300,000 |
| MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $250,000 |
| BREAD & ROSES | $14,195 |
| WBUR | $7,500 |
| WGBH | $7,500 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY | $5,000 |
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $3,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $3,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH - ANDOVER | $1,334 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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.
61 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 50 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M 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
- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +313%
BREAD & ROSES INC6× · 2018–2023 · $69k · revenue ×14
LAZARUS HOUSE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +4%
Funded once
MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +181%
- SHSHRINERS HOSPITALSone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
See schedule othe mission of new england college of optometry is to change the way people see the world.we do so by:- integrating innovative education with early and diverse clinical experiences to prepare today's optometrists for…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa 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.
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 52 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 74 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 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds TUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME PARENT INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTORMERS 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation · Rogers Family Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · Demoulas Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Oedel 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.
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.