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Pannell Family Foundation

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.

$571k
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$752kYouth Development$627kPhilanthropy$604kHealth$431kScience & Tech$409kCommunity Improvement$330kArts & Culture$248kInternational$136kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $4k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $400k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Profit Inc$100,000
Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston$100,000
Thrive Scholars$50,000
WGBH Educational Foundation$50,000
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I$50,000
Boston Medical Center Corporation$50,000
Raw Art Works Inc$25,000
Samaritans Inc$25,000
Marine Biological Laboratory$25,000
Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc$25,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$15,000
Hestia Fund$12,000
Friends Of The Public Garden Inc$10,000
Dearborn Academy$10,000
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc: $100k → 7%Association for Autism and Neurodiversity (AANE): $50k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGY LABORATORY: $325k → 8%YMCA OF LYNN MA: $25k → 10%TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE: $25k → 12%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $40k → 16%Friends of the Forum: $30k → 10%Thrive Scholars: $50k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE FORUM: $25k → 20%Vanguard Charitable: $300k → 7%Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: $35k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $125k → 8%RAW Artworks: $50k → 10%Smith College: $25k → 12%Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25k → 16%Thrive Scholars: $50k → 14%ASBERGERAUTISM NETWORK: $25k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGY LABORATORY: $125k → 8%Raw Art Works Inc: $25k → 10%TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE: $25k → 12%Boston Medical Center Corporation: $65k → 16%Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: $25k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $125k → 8%LA VIDA INC: $25k → 10%TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE: $25k → 12%BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER: $65k → 16%Marine Biological Laboratory: $100k → 8%Boston Medical Center Corporation: $50k → 16%Marine Biological Laboratory: $34k → 8%Boston Medical Center Corporation: $30k → 16%New Profit Inc: $100k → 16%New Profit Inc: $100k → 16%New Profit Inc: $100k → 16%WGBH Boston: $50k → 16%WGBH Educational Foundation: $50k → 16%WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CHARITABLE FUND: $50k → 16%WGBH Educational Foundation: $50k → 16%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $27k → 16%THRIVE SCHOLARS: $100k → 16%Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston: $100k → 16%Thrive Scholars: $100k → 16%Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston: $100k → 16%THRIVE SCHOLARS: $100k → 16%Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston: $100k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I: $50k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I: $28k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
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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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 37% of Pannell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 62% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Pannell Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.4M · 25 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
13

Total granted

$3.4M
$295k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-22%

Still filing today

92%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • MB
    MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY
    5× · 2019–2025 · $409k · revenue +7%
  • TS
    THRIVE SCHOLARS
    5× · 2021–2025 · $400k · revenue +35%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • FT
    FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · revenue 0%
  • WM
    WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CHARITABLE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • TC
    TISCH COLLEGE OF CIVIC LIFE AT TUFTS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $25k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
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
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
4
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
5
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

6
Boston Architectural College

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

7
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
8
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
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
10
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
11
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
12
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Scholars and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteady#19#0#16#11#13#15
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr14%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr14%10%35–55yr14%42%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/41
the rest of the field
11%
4,713/42,317

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.

05the grantee network

40 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $450,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRAW ART WORKS INC — $185,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CHARITABLE FUND — $50,000 · OtherWGBH Educational Foundation — $175,000 · OtherWGBH Educational FoundationBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $65,000 · OtherMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC — $70,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $55,000 · OtherFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $100,000 · OtherFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM IN…LA VIDA INC — $50,000 · Other+15 more — $218,500 · Other+15 moreTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $400,000 · EducationTHRIVE SCHOLARSTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF T…Trustees of Tufts College — $50,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts…THE WINSOR SCHOOL — $47,000 · EducationTHE WINSOR SCHOOL+6 more — $47,500 · Education+6 moreVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $327,000 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARIT…Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $142,500 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish…Boston Foundation Inc — $50,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundati…The Hestia Fund — $25,000 · PhilanthropyWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $400,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…INVERSANT INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $255,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDI…ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC — $135,000 · HealthASSOCIATION…SAMARITANS INC — $25,000 · HealthSAMARITANS …BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $15,000 · HealthMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $408,750 · Science & TechMARINE BIO…NEW PROFIT INC — $300,000 · Community ImprovementBEYOND WALLS INC — $30,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,000 · Community Improvement
Other$1,418,500Education$644,500Philanthropy$569,500Youth Development$435,000Health$430,000Science & Tech$408,750Community Improvement$336,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY — $408,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHRIVE SCHOLARS — $400,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $400,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM — $327,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $300,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $255,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $185,000 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $175,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $142,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC — $135,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDICINES FOR HUMANITY INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FORUM — $55,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetLA VIDA INC — $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL — $47,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC — $43,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC — $31,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBEYOND WALLS INC — $30,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Hestia Fund — $25,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINVERSANT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetUTEC Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPizza to the Polls — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlumni & Friends of Lynn Classical High School Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGROUNDSWELL COMMUNITY PROJECT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA19.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Move the World Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Paul & Edith Babson Foundation 106846-000 · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Pannell Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 6%
  • Utec Inc46% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc31% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation23% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College13% of income from government
  • La Vida Inc11% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Beyond Walls Inc6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pannell Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pannell Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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