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Pyle Nye Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$477k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$202k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Science & Tech$962kEducation$342kArts & Culture$200kCommunity Improvement$50kHousing & Shelter$33kHealth$32kPhilanthropy$20kHuman Services$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $327k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE$10,000
ST FRANCIS HOUSE$5,000
COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS$5,000
WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$5,000
SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF$5,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$5,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $1k → 9%PINE STREET INN INC: $5k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $5k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $1k → 16%WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10k → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%WESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $5k → 8%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $2k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$515k · 14 repeat orgs$252k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
10

Total granted

$515k
$140k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+5%

Still filing today

79%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $112k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalScience & TechOther
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

  • MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    3× · 2022–2024 · $245k · revenue +14%
  • TL
    THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $160k · revenue +6%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • BE
    BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MA
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +22%
  • BM
    BREADLOAF MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $11k
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
Wheaton College

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

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

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
7
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
8
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
11
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $912,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $245,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · Education+4 more: $32,000 · EducationTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LIONHEAR…LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $12,000 · Arts & Culture+4 moreBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MA: $50,000 · OtherBLACK ECO…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: $14,000 · OtherCOUNCIL O…COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE: $13,000 · OtherCOREY C G…BREADLOAF MOUNTAIN ZEN CENTER: $11,000 · OtherBREADLOAF…MASS GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OFFICE: $10,000 · OtherMASS GENE…ROXBURY WESTON PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 · OtherROXBURY W…Individual grant recipient: $10,000 · OtherIndividua…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INC: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF: $5,000 · Other+3 more: $7,100 · OtherGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $50,000 · Science & TechWESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $6,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBoston Foundation Inc: $20,000 · PhilanthropyROSIE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA): $3,000 · International
Education$1,239,000Arts & Culture$192,000Other$140,100Science & Tech$50,000Human Services$40,000Philanthropy$20,000Housing & Shelter$15,000International$3,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $912,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $245,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTON METCO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $15,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetROXBURY WESTON PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWholeSchool Mindfulness Inc: $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWALLOWA RESOURCES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRILATERAL COMMISSION (NORTH AMERICA): $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 IncCommunity Foundation …Tiaa Charitable IncEastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…Shell USA Company Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home