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Stevenson Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MEducation$948kScience & Tech$938kArts & Culture$912kEnvironment$260kEmployment$187kPublic Benefit$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k70 grants · $107k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $240k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $475k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$1,000
Median grant
17
States reached
$8.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RBC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC (DONAR ADVISED FUND)$1,000,000
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM$125,000
WBUR$100,000
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE$100,000
UPSTREAM USA$100,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE$50,000
NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$34,000
NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM$26,000
PROCTOR ACADEMY$25,000
BOSTON BALLET$25,000
SUMMER SEARCH BOSTON$25,000
MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES AND PUBLIC POLICY$25,000
BELMONT DAY SCHOOL$20,000
SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES$10,000
SCHWAB CHARITABLE$10,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $250 → 8%ONE LEAGUE GLOBAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $100k → 10%FAMILIES FIRST: $250 → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $1k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $1k → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $730 → 16%ROGERS COMMUNITIES: $500 → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $50 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 16%HORIZONS FROM HOMELESS CHILDREN: $250 → 16%HORIZONS FROM HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100 → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 36% of Stevenson Family Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 63% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 54% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Stevenson Family Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.2M · 123 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

123 repeat relationships — 73 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

123
47

Total granted

$4.2M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+28%

Still filing today

69%
49%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesCivil RightsOther

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

  • MA
    MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL
    8× · 2017–2024 · $921k · revenue +11%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2024 · $474k · revenue +45%
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $470k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • OL
    One League Global Scholarship Fund
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -78% · 43% of their budget
  • THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • ZP
    ZEITERION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

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2
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
3
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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4
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.

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5
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
6
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
7
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
8
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
9
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
10
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
11
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
12
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The Art Connection Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Developmental Disabilities …Cancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Public Library OperationsElementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Dance Arts OrganizationsLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr14%69%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/127
the rest of the field
11%
4,712/42,231

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

125 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 125 of the 187 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
123/125
Grantees still filing
96/125
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RBC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC (DONAR ADVISED FUND) — $1,000,000 · OtherRBC CAPITAL MARKETS LLC (DONAR ADVISED FUND)TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $474,460 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUPSTREAM — $150,000 · OtherUPSTREAMOLIN COLLEGE — $108,500 · Other+95 more — $834,409 · Other+95 moreSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $470,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $373,100 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MU…MUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $275,538 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCEBOSTON BALLET INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $166,470 · Arts & Culture+20 moreMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $920,500 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITALUpstream USA Inc — $100,000 · HealthUpstream USA IncFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $70,000 · HealthFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $50,000 · Health+8 more — $14,240 · HealthTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $65,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $55,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION — $30,630 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMY — $25,000 · EducationBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 · EducationBURR & BURTON SEMINARY — $20,000 · EducationBowdoin College — $10,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $10,000 · Education+14 more — $43,615 · EducationSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $80,000 · EnvironmentNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $51,700 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $17,500 · EnvironmentLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $11,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,500 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,750 · Environment+14 more — $22,305 · EnvironmentSUMMER SEARCH — $183,000 · EmploymentOne League Global Scholarship Fund — $100,000 · Human ServicesLAUREL HOUSE — $5,000 · Human Services+6 more — $5,730 · Human Services
Other$2,567,369Arts & Culture$1,460,108Health$1,154,740Education$279,245Environment$196,755Employment$183,000Human Services$110,730

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL — $920,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $474,460 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $470,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $373,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $275,538 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $183,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUpstream USA Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOne League Global Scholarship Fund — $100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC — $75,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetFOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $65,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC — $51,700 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $50,100 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $43,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society — $34,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION — $30,630 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBIKE HUB — $25,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $22,850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBURR & BURTON SEMINARY — $20,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWOOD SCHOOL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFROM THE TOP INC — $17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT — $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOLYMPUS DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $12,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBowdoin College — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $7,850 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $7,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC — $6,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MAX WARBURG COURAGE CURRICULUM INC — $5,715 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetABILIS INC — $5,000 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.

  • Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds One League Global Scholarship Fund ↗
  • Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds BIKE HUB ↗
  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWOOD SCHOOL ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Alchemy FoundationAlvord Family Foundat…The William & Lia G P…Highland Street Conne…Fidelity FoundationBarr FoundationEastern Cambridge Fou…Middlecott FoundationArbella Insurance Fou…
Boston Foundation IncMA53.2× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Alchemy Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · Barr Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Arbella Insurance 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 Stevenson Family Charitable Trust 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
  • Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • From the Top Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Bike Hub — 3% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pine Cobble School Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 187 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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