· Private foundation
Ptc Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $150,000 |
| SAE INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERS USA INC (DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS) | $50,000 |
| ENGINEERING FOR US ALL | $25,000 |
| THE CALCULUS PROJECT | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR | $25,000 |
| UP EDUCATION NETWORK | $25,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $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 (FY22–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +0% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250k 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
CITY YEAR INC3× · 2019–2022 · $300k · revenue +0%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC3× · 2021–2025 · $160k · revenue +20%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $70k · revenue +20%
Funded once
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -40%- UFUS FUND FOR UNICEF (DBA UNICEF USA)one grant, 2022 · $100k
- SISAE INTERNATIONALone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Ai4all's mission is to ensure that the next generation of ai leaders reflects humanity. ai4all is transforming the pipeline of ai practitioners who will shape ai for the benefit of humanity.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide leadership and support for the national effort to increase the representation of successful african american, native american and latinx women and men in engineering and technology, math, and science-based careers.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Aacsb international provides quality assurance of business school programs, the latest in business education intelligence, thought leadership, and learning and development services.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The axim collaborative, inc. mission is to make learning more accessible, relevant, and effective for all learners. axim collaborative, inc. transforms education to work pathways by facilitating collaboration and innovations to build an…
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Club for Girls Inc and the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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 29 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
50 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. 50 of the 72 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 CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CALCULUS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SAE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers Boston Professionals ↗
- Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Asha for Education ↗
- Who funds ENGINEERING FOR US ALL INC ↗
- Who funds ENABLING LEADERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FLARE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD COMPUTER EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING FAIR INC ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBOTICS EDUCATION & COMPETITION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO STEM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Ptc 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.
- Engineering for Us All Inc — 68% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Asian Women for Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.
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