· Private foundation
Palace Head Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k48 grants · $157k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $287k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $310k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROQUET FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $125,000 |
| SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS | $110,000 |
| ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS | $35,000 |
| ISLESBORO COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| WEST PALM BEACH LIBRARY FOUNDATION 2561 | $25,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| DAWSON SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MILTON ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $20,000 |
| UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS | $20,000 |
| BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $12,280 |
| BLUE SKY BRIDGE | $10,000 |
| BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
80 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND9× · 2017–2025 · $1.9M · revenue +109%
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY5× · 2017–2021 · $553k · revenue +94%
ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $443k · revenue +488%
Funded once
- HSHISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PALM BEACHone grant, 2023 · $110k
- YOYMCA OF THE PALM BEACHESone grant, 2023 · $25k
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETYgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +51%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
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 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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Historic Boston Incorporated. 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 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 128 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 THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CROQUET FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR THE NEW SCHOOL BOULDER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Community Center ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Littleton Hospital Association ↗
- Who funds VISTA DEL MAR CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Islands Trust ↗
- Who funds Big Tree Boating Association ↗
- Who funds AMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH OPERA INC ↗
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: Windhover Foundation · The Albright Foundation · Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · The Jockey Hollow Foundation Inc · Richard K Lubin Family Foundation · Pendleton Mazer Family Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · Lois Chiles Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · James M Collins Foundation · The Weezie Foundation Xxxxx0005
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 Palace Head 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.
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Emmanuel Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.