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The Albright 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
88% of The Albright Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Albright Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $609k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $12k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
- $250k+1 grant · $472k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND | $471,628 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $125,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| CHRIST CHURCH DARK HARBOR | $1,000 |
| STEPS TO SUCCESS | $500 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $500 |
| ROGERSON HOUSE | $250 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $250 |
| WGBH | $250 |
| VERMONT LAND TRUST | $250 |
| PINE STREET INN | $250 |
| MAINE FARMLAND TRUST | $250 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSP | $250 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
97 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 74 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
THE WINSOR SCHOOL5× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +46%
EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +157%- PSPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION3× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- NNoblesone grant, 2021 · $10k
- TSTuck School of Businessone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $7k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
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.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Brandegee Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
78 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. 78 of the 155 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEGEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE GREENSPACE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SHERRILL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Islesboro Pre-School ↗
- Who funds ISLESBORO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS OUT FRONT INC ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds Islesboro Community Center ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Palace Head Foundation Inc · Windhover Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Clarence & Anne Dillon Dunwalke Trust · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Lois Chiles Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Alchemy 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 The Albright Foundation 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.
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Brookline Greenspace Alliance Inc — 19% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Rogerson House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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