· Private foundation
Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
- $250k+5 grants · $7.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $6,350,000 |
| Boston College | $337,500 |
| Boston Children's Hospital | $300,000 |
| Middlesex School | $250,000 |
| Winchester Hospital | $250,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell | $200,000 |
| Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church | $100,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lawrence | $50,000 |
| Anatolia College | $25,000 |
| Sts Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church | $25,000 |
| Crocker Field Restoration Committee Inc | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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 +74% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
16 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +50%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +117%
- WHWINCHESTER HOSPITAL2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- SMSomerville Museumone grant, 2021 · $100k
- MCMA COVID-19 Relief Fund - Foundation for Business Equityone grant, 2020 · $100k
Lawrence General Hospitalone grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +17%
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.
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
The mission of anna jaques hospital (ajh or hospital) is to provide the highest quality medical care and improve the health of the communities served by ajh in alliance with the ajh medical staff and ajh affiliates including seacoast…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…
Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…
Lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc) is committed to providing superior health care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and the…
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…
Tertiary care academic medical center
The mission of the exeter hospital inc. (ehi or hospital) is committed to improving the health of the communities served by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient rights in a cost…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 34 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CROCKER FIELD RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION OF HELLENIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
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: Demoulas Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Fidelity House Inc: 91% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- Winchester Hospital: 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
- Cotting School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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