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Oedipus 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.
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 $10k22 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $12,240 |
| VARIOUS CHARITIES | $2,104 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,223 |
| WILD SPIRIT WOLF SANCTUARY | $1,041 |
| BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER | $1,041 |
| DOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST | $1,041 |
| BUSTIN' BARRIERS | $1,041 |
| NON-EVENT | $1,041 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $1,041 |
| STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE | $1,041 |
| GLOBALGIVING | $1,041 |
| CHANEL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAM & DEWRAH FOUNDATION | $325 |
| WMBR | $208 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $208 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% 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
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.
23 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $72k · revenue +127%
CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $7k · revenue +38%- WSWild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Inc6× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LDLES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER LTDgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +30%
- IHINTERIM HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $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.
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
The promotion of public interest in music written & recorded before 1800.
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
Masscreative advocates for a well-resourced and equitable creative sector essential to the economic and civic vibrancy of massachusetts. working with its organizational and individual members, masscreative advances the public policy,…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
To remove the technical and social barriers between boston's music makers and their creative visions through truly affordable music workspace and professional development programs.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's mission is to publish a literary and political magazine that discusses key current issues and topics including philosophy, art, and criticism, publishing in print and for free online.
Mass moca's mission is to foster and present visual and performing arts and related educational programs for the benefit of the public.
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cultural Alliance of Medfield Dba Bellforge Arts Center and the most unlike its peers is Conservation Law Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 50 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 COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wild Spirit Wolf Sanctuary Inc ↗
- Who funds DOVER LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BUSTIN BARRIERS ↗
- Who funds Non-Event Inc ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Mobius Inc ↗
- Who funds LES DAMES D'ESCOFFIER LTD ↗
- Who funds INTERIM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND MUSICIANS RESOURCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STAND UP TO CANCER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds HELPHOPELIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN ARTS ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds DOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Jenna Tatro Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds THE CLADDAGH FUND CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOVER NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Wagner Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America 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 Oedipus 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.
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Interim House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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