· Private foundation
Stephen D and Susan W Paine 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREAT DIXTER CHARITABLE TRUST | $5,000 |
| BOSTON BALLET | $5,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES | $2,500 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS | $1,000 |
| MANOMET | $1,000 |
| MASS MOCA | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $1,000 |
| ENROOT | $1,000 |
| SOFT POWER HEALTH | $500 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $500 |
| UNICEF USA | $500 |
| FAMILY AID | $500 |
| PROJECT STEP | $500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $500 |
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 (FY19–25, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +65% since the first grant, against -12% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $350k · revenue +26%
BOSTON BALLET INC7× · 2019–2025 · $23k · revenue +56%- TVTHE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC7× · 2019–2025 · $18k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- POPROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUMone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -12%
- TUTUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THEone grant, 2019 · $600
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
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.…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Presenting orchestra classical music to underserved communities. Our mission is to make great music accessible to diverse audiences and to harness the power of music to forge lasting relationships with our community.
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 39 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PROPRIETORS OF THE BOSTON ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT CENTER FOR ECOSTUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROYAL OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BRATTLE FILM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Project STEP Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE HOMES ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TO FAMILY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BE HEARDWORLD INC ANNA MYER AND DANCERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Cambridge Historical Society ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Alchemy Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Ploughshares Foundation · Barr Foundation · The Louis Foundation · M Holt Massey Charitable Trust · Robert and Iris Fanger Family Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stephen D and Susan W Paine Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
- Be Heardworld Inc Anna Myer and Dancers Inc: 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Manomet Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society: 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- The Vermont Center for Ecostudies Inc: 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
- Brattle Film Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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