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Strategic Grant Partners Inc

Its FY2021 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 FY2021
6
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$800k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Education$9.0MHealth$2.3MYouth Development$600kEmployment$461kPhilanthropy$75kHuman Services$61k
02FY2021 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $50k–250k3 grants · $247k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.6M
$375,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UP EDUCATION NETWORK INC$800,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$375,000
ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC$375,000
YOUTH GUIDANCE$125,000
SUMMER SEARCH$61,051
YOUTH VILLAGES INC$61,050
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:

Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%YOUTH VILLAGES INC: $61k → 8%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.

43%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 5 repeat orgs$7.1M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
20

Total granted

$5.3M
$7.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $61k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementHealthEmploymentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • UE
    UP EDUCATION NETWORK
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.8M · revenue -60%
  • Teach for America Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue -3%
  • ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +5% · 45% of their budget

Funded once

  • UU
    Upstream USA Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $2.2M · revenue -36%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF SPRINGFIELD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1.5M · revenue -57% · 68% of their budget
  • MC
    MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2020 · $861k
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
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
2
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
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
Boston Architectural College

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

—
5
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
7
Bpe Inc

Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…

—
8
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
9
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.

Education
10
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
11
New Schools Fund

To improve public education by identifying and supporting the most promising education ventures in the country, and creating a nationwide network of education entrepreneurs committed to closing the achievement gap.

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of Excel Academy Charter Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Youth Villages 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

20 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. 20 of the 27 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
13/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UP EDUCATION NETWORK: $1,753,000 · EducationUP EDUCATION NETWORKTeach for America Inc: $1,259,367 · EducationTeach for America IncALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · EducationALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INCFRIENDS OF VERITAS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $670,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF VERITAS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INCYouth Guidance: $600,000 · EducationYouth Guidance+6 more: $96,141 · EducationUpstream USA Inc: $2,175,000 · HealthUpstream USA IncMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $861,000 · OtherMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $556,825 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSA…WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY: $484,482 · OtherWORCESTER STATE UNI…MASSACHUSETTS DEPARTMENT OF ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY EDUCATION: $100,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $81,000 · Other+3 more: $27,948 · OtherFRIENDS OF SPRINGFIELD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,500,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF SPRI…PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyPREPARATORY FOU…Boston Foundation Inc: $75,000 · PhilanthropySUMMER SEARCH: $461,051 · EmploymentDUET INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 · Community ImprovementYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $61,050 · Human Services
Education$5,628,508Health$2,175,000Other$2,111,255Philanthropy$1,675,000Employment$461,051Community Improvement$350,000Human Services$61,050

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 budgetUpstream USA Inc: $2,175,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $1,753,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetFRIENDS OF SPRINGFIELD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $1,500,000 over 1y, 68% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $1,259,367 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 45% of budgetFRIENDS OF VERITAS PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $670,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetYouth Guidance: $600,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $461,051 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDUET INC: $300,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $61,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF EXCEL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBridgewater State University Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS BIOTECHNOLOGY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTNTP INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $1,141 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.

Barr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Fidelity Non-Profit M…Boston Foundation IncOne8 FoundationFidelity FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Wellington Management…Boston Schools FundGeorge H & Jane a Mif…The Klarman Family Fo…
Barr FoundationMA25.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · One8 Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Wellington Management Foundation · Boston Schools Fund · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · The Klarman Family 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 Strategic Grant Partners Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Strategic Grant Partners Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Up Education Network: 22% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Bridgewater State University Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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How do I get to Strategic Grant Partners Inc?

Find your warmest path to Strategic Grant Partners Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 27 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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