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Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc at a glance

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Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$112k
Granted FY2021
30
Grants FY2021
12
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

19
’20
23
’21
1
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2022.

Philanthropy$1.8MArts & Culture$51kEducation$43kHealth$42kCivil Rights$23kInternational$19kAnimals$8kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2021 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k26 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
$2,750
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $1k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $1k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1k → 10%HAVEN - VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $2k → 5%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

NH
WA
MN
NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
AR
SC
DC
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$168k · 19 repeat orgs$45k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against -50% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

$168k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
-50%

Still filing today

79%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $249 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22
HealthEducationInternationalCivil RightsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF KEXP
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k · revenue +57%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue +76%
  • SH
    SHADY HILL SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $18k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • PM
    PHELAN MCDERMID SYND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • KM
    KEEP MUSIC ALIVE AT WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
  • KP
    KUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RAD
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
3
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
4
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
5
Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health
6
Seattle Biomedical Research Institute

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,…

—
7
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

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…

Community Improvement
8
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
9
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
10
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
12
The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Evidence Action; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 42 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,822,652 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDCAMBRIDGE CTR ADULT EDUCATION: $12,000 · OtherSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium: $5,750 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,500 · OtherPHELAN MCDERMID SYND FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $4,000 · OtherKEEP MUSIC ALIVE AT WHATCOM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,000 · OtherKUOW PUGET SOUND PUBLIC RAD: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,750 · OtherHEIFER INTERNATIONAL: $2,750 · OtherMiddleton Place Foundation: $8,000 · OtherHPF-RESCUE-REHAB-REHOME: $7,000 · OtherSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $4,000 · Other+12 more: $17,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF KEXP: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentHomeless Youth Alliance: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,000 · HealthPHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $6,000 · HealthThe Against Malaria Foundation: $5,500 · HealthAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $4,000 · HealthSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $18,000 · EducationPROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · EducationTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $2,000 · Education+1 more: $249 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $5,500 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,000 · Civil RightsEVIDENCE ACTION: $5,500 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,750 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $2,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 · International
Community Improvement$1,822,652Other$79,750Youth Development$35,500Health$35,500Education$28,249Civil Rights$23,000International$11,250

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $1,822,652 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF KEXP: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMiddleton Place Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHPF-RESCUE-REHAB-REHOME: $7,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPHELAN MCDERMID SYNDROME FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium: $5,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHomeless Youth Alliance: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEVIDENCE ACTION: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Against Malaria Foundation: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAUSTEN RIGGS CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Land Trust of New Hampshire: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $2,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND SUPPORT SERVICES: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRICHIE MCFARLAND CHILDREN'S CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $249 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.

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.

New Hampshire Charita…Fidelity FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…The Pfizer Foundation…American Online Givin…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…American Endowment Fo…Network for Good
New Hampshire Charitable FoundationNH12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Olive Higgins Prouty Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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