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One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk at a glance

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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 FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $41k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $320k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$120,000
MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR$100,000
BOSTON UNIVERSITY$100,000
PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION$20,000
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS$11,000
WE CAN$10,000
CHERRY PRESCHOOL$5,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%MONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%WE CAN: $10k → 8%WE CAN: $10k → 8%WE CAN: $10k → 8%WE CAN: $10k → 8%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 29% of One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerklessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 9 repeat orgs$182k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

$1.9M
$171k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+53%

Still filing today

89%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $910k · revenue +32%
  • PR
    PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +40%
  • DU
    DEPAUL UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2020–2023 · $50k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • FO
    FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CO
    CITY OF BOSTON TRUST
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MG
    MA GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
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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2
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
3
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
4
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
5
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
6
University of Massachusetts Global

The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.

Education
7
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
8
Northeastern University
Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
12
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Music Center of Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Studio 878 Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $910,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR: $540,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EARSTAGE HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL INC: $105,000 · OtherSTAGE HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL INC+8 more: $81,000 · OtherMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $750,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMY: $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF THE CUSHING ACADEMYDEPAUL UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education+1 more: $2,500 · EducationFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $100,000 · HealthUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyPAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $80,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO 878 TRUST: $3,000 · Arts & CultureWE CAN CORPORATION: $40,000 · Human ServicesMONOMOY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP: $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,636,000Education$1,002,500Health$100,000Philanthropy$90,000Arts & Culture$88,000Human Services$45,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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

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 budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $750,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTAGE HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL INC: $105,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $10,000 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
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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Yawkey Foundation IIFidelity FoundationRenaissance Charitabl…The Bank of America C…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from One Step Forward Education Foundation Robert G Bannish Clerk. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
  • Paul Revere Memorial Association: 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc: 1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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 · 0–50%
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 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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