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Pyle Nye Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $327k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF HARVARD | $202,000 |
| THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS | $50,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $10,000 |
| CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| WALLOWA RESOURCES INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +12% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k 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
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL3× · 2022–2024 · $245k · revenue +14%- TLTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%
Funded once
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%- BEBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- BMBREADLOAF MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTERone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
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…
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.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is American University. 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY WESTON PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WholeSchool Mindfulness Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds WALLOWA RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds TRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA) ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Tiaa Charitable Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Shell USA Company Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Pyle Nye 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.
- Wallowa Resources Inc — 100% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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.