· Private foundation
Running Deer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k27 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $235k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLESLEY VILLAGE CHURCH | $235,000 |
| WESTWOOD HILLS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $15,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE ALUMNI FUND | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HAVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CARROLL SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| MALAYAKA HOUSE | $3,500 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $2,500 |
| KNOX COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| ST STEPHEN'S ARMENIAN CHURCH | $1,500 |
| NROC | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF TRUMBULL HIGH SOCCER | $1,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $1,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
68 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Williams College9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +87%- IIIllinois Institute of Technology3× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +27%
- TCTHE CARROLL SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- NSNAVY SEABEE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $150k · revenue -16%
- ANANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -99%
- AYANS YALE DIVINITY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
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.
Education and Research
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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,…
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…
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…
How this is measured
67 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. 67 of the 131 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 NAVY SEABEE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds CEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Illinois Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MALAYAKA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FUMBELO INC ↗
- Who funds FOR HIS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER NEWTON THEOLOGICAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KNOX COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL AND TOWN HALL ↗
- Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET PRESERVATION HALL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Arons Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Conroy Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Running Deer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Running Deer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Epilepsy Foundation of America: 22% of income from government
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc: 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
- Feed the Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Preservation Hall Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Historical Society Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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