· Private foundation
Perry and Madeline Garver Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $21k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEREA COLLEGE | $21,000 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $3,500 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| UNION CAPITAL BOSTON | $2,500 |
| THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER | $2,500 |
| ROOT DIVISION LATINO TEACHING ARTIST FELLOWSHIP | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BEREA COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $133k · revenue +50%- RDRoot Division9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +8%
THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- GGOFUNDMEORGgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +719%
- BABOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGEone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +10%
- SHSHRINER'S HOSPITALS FOR CHILDRENone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
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.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
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.…
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.
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…
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…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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,…
Founded in 1902, barton college is a four-year, private, liberal arts college located in wilson, n.c. the barton experience focuses on academic excellence within a wide range of professional and liberal arts programs leading to…
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…
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…
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 13 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BEREA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Root Division ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds GOFUNDMEORG ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Perry and Madeline Garver Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Perry and Madeline Garver Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College: 1% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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