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Robert E and Adele M Boydston Foundation at a glance

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Robert E and Adele M Boydston 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.

$243k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$556kArts & Culture$367kHealth$156kAnimals$147kHousing & Shelter$28kHuman Services$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $182k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Illinois Institute of Technology$31,000
University of Chicago Booth School$25,000
Dartmouth College$15,000
Providence St Peter Hospital$12,500
University of Puget Sound$12,500
San Jose Stage Company$12,000
The Tech Museum of Innovation$12,000
San Jose Museum of Art$12,000
Semperivens Fund$10,000
South Puget Sound Salmon EG$10,000
Hands On Childrens Museum$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Center for Whale Research$10,000
Individual grant recipient$7,000
Cal State University Chico$6,500
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Sidewalk: $10k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $13k → 9%Center for Whale Research: $10k → 10%Illinois Institute of Technology: $31k → 14%Dartmouth College: $15k → 10%Hands On Children's Museum: $10k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $13k → 9%Center for Whale Research: $10k → 10%Illinois Institute of Technology: $31k → 14%Dartmouth College: $15k → 10%Salvation Army: $10k → 8%Hands On Children's Museum: $10k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $13k → 9%Center for Whale Research: $10k → 10%Illinois Institute of Technology: $31k → 14%Dartmouth College: $15k → 10%Sidewalk: $10k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $13k → 9%Center for Whale Research: $10k → 10%Illinois Institute of Technology: $31k → 14%Dartmouth College: $15k → 10%Hands On Children's Museum: $10k → 9%University of Puget Sound: $13k → 9%Illinois Institute of Technology: $31k → 14%Dartmouth College: $15k → 10%Illinois Institute of Technology: $25k → 14%Dartmouth College: $12k → 10%University of Chicago Booth School: $25k → 14%University of Chicago Booth School: $25k → 14%University of Chicago Booth School: $25k → 14%University of Chicago Booth School: $25k → 14%University of Chicago Booth School: $25k → 14%University of Chicago Booth School: $20k → 14%San Jose Stage Company: $12k → 8%The Tech Museum of Innovation: $12k → 8%San Jose Museum of Art: $12k → 8%Providence St Peter Hospital: $13k → 9%The Tech Museum of Innovation: $11k → 8%Providence St Peter Hospital: $13k → 9%San Jose Stage Company: $11k → 8%Providence St Peter Hospital: $13k → 9%San Jose Museum of Art: $11k → 8%Providence St Peter Hospital: $13k → 9%San Jose Museum of Art: $11k → 8%Providence St Peter Hospital: $13k → 9%The Tech Museum of Innovation: $11k → 8%The Tech Museum of Innovation: $11k → 8%San Jose Museum of Art: $11k → 8%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

NH
WA
IL
OH
CA
TN
NC
TX
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
1

Total granted

$1.3M
$10k

Still filing today

52%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthScience & TechAnimalsCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • II
    Illinois Institute of Technology
    6× · 2020–2025 · $181k · revenue +9%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +4%
  • SJ
    San Jose Stage Company
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Seattle University

Seattle University is dedicated to educating the whole person, to professional formation, and to empowering leaders for a just and humane world.

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2
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
3
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
4
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
5
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
6
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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7
William Marsh Rice University

As a leading research university with a distinctive commitment to undergraduate education, Rice University aspires to path breaking research, unsurpassed teaching, and contributions to the betterment of our world. It seeks to fulfill this…

Education
8
Smithsonian Institution

*increase and diffusion of knowledge* is the mission set forth by james smithson. the smithsonian endeavors to shape the future by preserving our heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world.

Arts & Culture
9
Computer History Museum

Chm decodes technology - its computing past, digital present, and future impact on humanity.

Arts & Culture
10
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
11
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
12
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tech Interactive; the most unlike its peers is Sidewalk. 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

14 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. 14 of the 28 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)
14/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

University of Chicago Booth School: $145,000 · OtherUniversity of Chicago Booth SchoolProvidence St Peter Hospital: $72,500 · OtherProvidence St Peter HospitalSan Jose Stage Company: $60,000 · OtherSan Jose Stage CompanySemperivens Fund: $56,500 · OtherSemperivens FundSouth Puget Sound Salmon EG: $50,000 · OtherSouth Puget Sound Salmon EGIndividual grant recipient: $40,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $37,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCal State University Chico: $36,500 · OtherCal State University ChicoFifth Avenue Theatre: $36,500 · OtherFifth Avenue TheatreSt Jude Research Hospital: $36,000 · OtherChildren's Discovery Museum: $29,500 · OtherSidewalk: $27,500 · Other+4 more: $54,000 · Other+4 moreIllinois Institute of Technology: $181,000 · EducationIllinois Institute of Techn…Trustees of Dartmouth College: $87,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth Colle…THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $72,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOU…THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $62,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACT…SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $62,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM O…HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $57,500 · Arts & CultureHANDS ON CHILDREN…KQED INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $60,000 · Science & TechALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,000 · HealthHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $36,500 · AnimalsSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,000 · Community Improvement
Other$681,000Education$340,500Arts & Culture$216,500Science & Tech$60,000Health$47,500Animals$36,500Community Improvement$14,000

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 budgetIllinois Institute of Technology: $181,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $87,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND: $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $62,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSan Jose Stage Company: $60,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetCENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH: $60,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $57,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $36,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSidewalk: $27,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND ↗
  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Stage Company ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds Sidewalk ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Robert E and Adele M Boydston Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert E and Adele M Boydston Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 28 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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