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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 you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of SIMMONS UNIVERSITY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 6 grants below total $349,840 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $61,115,632 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,765,792 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised 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

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 96% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your 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

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve 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

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

  • 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%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

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.

3
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
4
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
5
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
6
American Gas Association

American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…

7
United States Naval Institute

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.

8
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
9
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
10
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
11
National Association for College Admission Counseling

Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New America Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Boston Book Festival 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 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 20172025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, 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 org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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 budgetBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Simmons University 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention Inc73% of income from government
  • Bay Cove Human Services Inc70% of income from government
  • Association of Tribal Archives Libraries & Museums21% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Code for Science & Society Inc2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc2% of income from government
  • Assumption University0% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce0% 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, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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