· Private foundation
Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $112k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k26 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF KEXP | $15,000 |
| CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS | $12,750 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SHADY HILL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CTR ADULT EDUCATION | $6,000 |
| PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| HIDDEN POND FARM EQUINE RESCUE | $3,000 |
| MIDDLETON PLACE FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| SOUTHEAST LAND TRUST OF NH | $3,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY CLINIC CONSORTIUM | $3,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS | $2,750 |
| HEIFER INTERNATIONAL | $2,750 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,750 |
| HOMLESS YOUTH ALLIANCE | $2,750 |
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 (FY20–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against -50% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249 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
- FOFRIENDS OF KEXP2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +57%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +55%
- SHSHADY HILL SCHOOL2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- PMPHELAN MCDERMID SYND FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k
- KPKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RADone grant, 2020 · $3k
- KMKEEP MUSIC ALIVE AT WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $3k
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
We conduct fundamental infectious disease research to generate critical new knowledge about pathogens and their interactions with see schedule o for continuationhumans to enable the discovery and development of novel interventions,…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 44 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF KEXP ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Middleton Place Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HPF-RESCUE-REHAB-REHOME ↗
- Who funds PHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium ↗
- Who funds EVIDENCE ACTION ↗
- Who funds The Against Malaria Foundation ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds Homeless Youth Alliance ↗
- Who funds Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire ↗
- Who funds AUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Support for Families of Children with Disabilities ↗
- Who funds HAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds RICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good
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 Olive Higgins Prouty 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.
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Austen Riggs Center 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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