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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston$100,000
New Profit Inc$100,000
Thrive Scholars$50,000
WGBH Educational Foundation$50,000
Boston Medical Center Corporation$50,000
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston I$50,000
Raw Art Works Inc$25,000
Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc$25,000
Samaritans Inc$25,000
Marine Biological Laboratory$25,000
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc$15,000
Hestia Fund$12,000
Washington Institute for Near East Policy$10,000
Friends Of The Public Garden Inc$10,000
Dearborn Academy$10,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its 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 BIOLOGY LABORATORY: $125k → 8%RAW Artworks: $50k → 10%TRUSTEES OF SMITH COLLEGE: $25k → 12%Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: $25k → 16%Thrive Scholars: $50k → 14%Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: $25k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $125k → 8%Raw Art Works Inc: $25k → 10%Smith College: $25k → 12%Boston Medical Center Corporation: $65k → 16%ASBERGERAUTISM NETWORK: $25k → 8%MARINE BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY: $125k → 8%RAW ART WORKS 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 Educational Foundation: $50k → 16%WGBH Educational Foundation: $50k → 16%WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT CHARITABLE FUND: $50k → 16%WGBH Boston: $50k → 16%VANGUARD CHARITABLE: $27k → 16%Thrive Scholars: $100k → 16%THRIVE SCHOLARS: $100k → 16%THRIVE SCHOLARS: $100k → 16%Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston: $100k → 16%Boys And Girls Clubs of Boston: $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
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

MI
NY
MA
OR
OH
RI
CA
MO
DC
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 37% of Pannell Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 95% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 62%.

Pannell Family Foundationlessmore 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.
$3.4M · 25 repeat orgs$349k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -22% for those 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
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

  • 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
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
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.…

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Thrive Scholars; 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.
05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropyThe Hestia Fund: $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 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 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 budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA VIDA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 5.4% 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 budgetSAMARITANS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hestia Fund: $25,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINVERSANT INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Move the World Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Paul & Edith Babson F…Barr FoundationCummings Foundation G…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…
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

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 Pannell Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pannell Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Marine Biological Laboratory: 20% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • La Vida Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Beyond Walls Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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