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One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk

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.

$366k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2024
6
Organizations funded FY2023
17%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$20,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 18
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$2.8M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 17% of the organizations One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving6$246k17%
FY20236$142k17%
FY20226$297k0%
FY20216$312k17%
FY202018$620k67%
FY20198$495kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$1.9MHealth$666kRecreation & Sports$105kPhilanthropy$100kArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$45kFood & Nutrition$15kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 17 grantees

Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($575k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Boston University: $910,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetStage Harbor Sailing School Inc: $105,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetThe Trustees of the Cushing Academy: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPaul Revere Memorial Association: $80,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetDepaul University: $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWe Can Corporation: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWarren W Cherry Preschool: $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCardinal Cushing Centers Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMonomoy Community Services Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity Music Center of Boston Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCape Cod Times Neighbors Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Studio 878 Trust: $3,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetUc San Diego Foundation: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Fidelity Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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.

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About One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk

How much does One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk give?
One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk reported 7 grants totaling $366,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (65%), Health (22%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
Who are One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Trustees of Boston University ($910k), Stage Harbor Sailing School Inc ($105k), The Trustees of the Cushing Academy ($100k).
Does One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Yawkey Foundation II, Fidelity Foundation.
Where is One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk based?
One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk is based in MA.

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 26 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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