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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2023
17
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2023.

Education$2.8MYouth Development$303kInternational$221kFood & Nutrition$127kArts & Culture$66kHousing & Shelter$64kHealth$60kHuman Services$46kOther$0
02FY2023 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k11 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $250k+5 grants · $3.0M
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION: $300k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $15k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $14k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $10k → 10%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $10k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $10k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $10k → 10%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $10k → 10%MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $250k → 8%ESPERANZA ACADEMY: $10k → 10%PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY: $500k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $10k → 10%BREAD & ROSES: $10k → 10%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND: $100k → 16%FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND: $100k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT: $5k → 10%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WBUR: $8k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WBUR: $8k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WBUR: $8k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $5k → 8%WBUR: $8k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 8%WBUR: $8k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 8%HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%WBUR: $8k → 16%HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%HOME HEALTH FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1.2M → 10%GREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $700k → 10%CHRIST CHURCH - ANDOVER: $9k → 10%CHRIST CHURCH - ANDOVER: $8k → 10%WGBH: $8k → 16%WGBH: $8k → 16%WGBH: $8k → 16%WGBH: $8k → 16%WGBH: $8k → 16%WGBH: $8k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
FL
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$864k · 61 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
6

Total granted

$864k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+153%

Still filing today

48%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
InternationalHealthEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • II
    INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +252%
  • BREAD & ROSES INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $69k · revenue ×14
  • NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $58k · revenue +803%

Funded once

  • MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +181%
  • SH
    SHRINERS HOSPITALS
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
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 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
2
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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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
5
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
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
University of New Haven

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…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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11
The New England College of Optometry

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…

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12
Western New England University

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amnesty International of the Usa Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
32/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHSHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $1,200,000 · OtherNORTHSHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGEGREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOL: $700,000 · OtherGREATER LAWRENCE TECHNICAL SCHOOLPHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY: $500,000 · OtherPHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMYMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $250,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE+54 more: $407,834 · Other+54 moreYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $200,000 · Civil RightsBREAD & ROSES INC: $69,195 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $58,000 · Food & NutritionLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $58,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterTUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME PARENT INC: $30,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $3,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $3,000 · HealthLawrence General Hospital: $3,000 · HealthPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · HealthTrustees of Tufts College: $30,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $15,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 · Education
Other$3,057,834Youth Development$300,000Civil Rights$200,000Food & Nutrition$127,195Housing & Shelter$61,000Health$48,000Education$47,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $69,195 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $58,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $58,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME PARENT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $15,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $13,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC: $6,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANA-FARBER INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTECHNOSERVE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASHOKA: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBARNSTORMERS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds TUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME PARENT INC ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • 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 ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
  • Who funds TECHNOSERVE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASHOKA ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗

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.

Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Nathaniel & Elizabeth…Rogers Family Foundat…The Saab Family Found…Demoulas FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA17.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 74 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home