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Simmons University

SIMMONS UNIVERSITY is a community of higher learning that unites passion with purpose.

$61M
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$299k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Health$1.1MScience & Tech$170kEducation$122kPublic Benefit$93kReligion$77kArts & Culture$22kCommunity Improvement$18kYouth Development$10k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $349,840, the rows itemized in this filing. The $61,115,632 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $60,765,792 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
  • $250k+1 grant · $299k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$558M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC$299,197
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$21,393
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC$10,000
BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC$8,000
TREFT SYSTEMS INC$5,750
BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC$5,500
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 (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $6k → 8%ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $21k → 11%BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC: $8k → 16%ASSOCOF TRIBAL ARCHIVES LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS: $16k → 16%NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $67k → 14%INTERNET2: $26k → 14%CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY INC: $135k → 12%ILUMIS-AR: $77k → 12%BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $6k → 8%TREFT SYSTEMS INC: $6k → 16%UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ADVANCED INTERNET DEVELOPMENT DBA INTERNET2: $18k → 14%CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY INC: $6k → 12%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $45k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC: $454k → 16%UNIVERSITY CORPORATION FOR ADVANCED INTERNET DEVELOPMENT DBA INTERNET2: $6k → 14%GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10k → 8%ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC: $299k → 16%ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC: $296k → 16%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $50k → 16%GREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $10k → 16%GREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $8k → 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 5 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$1.2M
$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+188%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationScience & TechYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • AF
    ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +72% · 44% of their budget
  • CF
    CODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $140k · revenue +234%
  • UC
    University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development
    2× · 2020–2021 · $24k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $93k · revenue -11%
  • I
    ILUMIS-AR
    one grant, 2024 · $77k
  • AO
    Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museumsgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $16k · revenue +188%
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
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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2
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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3
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
4
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
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
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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7
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
8
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

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
American Association for the Advancement of Science

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,…

Science & Tech
11
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
12
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 13 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC: $1,049,331 · OtherALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INCNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $93,353 · OtherNEW AMERICA FOUNDATIONILUMIS-AR: $77,250 · OtherILUMIS-AR+3 more: $31,250 · OtherCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $140,270 · Science & TechCODE FOR SC…University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development: $24,220 · Science & TechUniversity …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $95,103 · EducationPresident …ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $21,393 · EducationASSUMPTION…Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: $16,422 · EducationAssociatio…BOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $11,000 · EducationBOSTON BOO…GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$1,251,184Science & Tech$164,490Education$143,918Youth Development$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALLIANCE FOR INCLUSION AND PREVENTION INC: $1,049,331 over 3y, 44% of budgetCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC: $140,270 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $95,103 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: $93,353 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity Corporation for Advanced Internet Development: $24,220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $21,393 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAssociation of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: $16,422 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable 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 Simmons University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Simmons University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums: 21% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Code for Science & Society Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce: 0% of 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)
2rely 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 13 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 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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