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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.

$609k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$472k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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41
’18
40
’19
41
’20
48
’21
19
’22
14
’23
17
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$816kEducation$250kEnvironment$64kHealth$58kRecreation & Sports$40kArts & Culture$34kReligion$17kHuman Services$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $12k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $125k
  • $250k+1 grant · $472k
$250
Median grant
9
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND$471,628
FIDELITY CHARITABLE$125,000
EPIPHANY SCHOOL$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,500
THE GARDEN CONSERVANCY$1,500
CHRIST CHURCH DARK HARBOR$1,000
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS$500
STEPS TO SUCCESS$500
MAINE FARMLAND TRUST$250
NORTH ATTLEBORO ANIMAL SHELTER$250
152 COMMONWEALTH FDN$250
BROOKLINE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$250
ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSP$250
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$250
ROGERSON HOUSE$250
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Cradles to Crayons Inc: $500 → 8%Pine Stree Inn: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%Pine Stree Inn: $250 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%Pine Stree Inn: $100 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $500 → 16%Pine Stree Inn: $100 → 16%Pine Stree Inn: $50 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $100 → 16%Pine Stree Inn: $50 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $100 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $25 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $25 → 16%American Red Cross: $250 → 16%American Red Cross: $250 → 16%American Red Cross: $100 → 16%American Red Cross: $100 → 16%Rogerson Communities: $2k → 16%Judge Baker Childrens Center: $500 → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
VA
MD
DC
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$460k · 97 repeat orgs$556k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

97
44

Total granted

$460k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+25%

Still filing today

55%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • THE WINSOR SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $56k · revenue +46%
  • EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $32k · revenue +216%
  • PS
    PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION
    3× · 2017–2021 · $26k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • N
    Nobles
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • TS
    Tuck School of Business
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
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
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
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
4
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
5
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
6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
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
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
10
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
11
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
12
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; 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.
04the grantee network

78 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. 78 of the 155 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/78
Grantees still filing
65/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND: $471,628 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUNDApple Orchard School Scholaship Fun: $50,000 · OtherApple Orchard School Scholaship Fun+101 more: $223,710 · Other+101 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $306,752 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHAR…THE WINSOR SCHOOL: $56,000 · EducationTHE WINSOR S…PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $26,000 · EducationPARK SCHOOL …MILTON ACADEMY: $25,500 · EducationMILTON ACADE…THE CARROLL SCHOOL: $12,500 · EducationTHE CARROLL …THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,500 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY…HOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+9 more: $13,350 · Education+9 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $24,600 · EnvironmentBROOKLINE GREENSPACE ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $4,750 · EnvironmentTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 · Environment+11 more: $7,855 · EnvironmentEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $31,500 · Recreation & SportsIslesboro Community Center: $3,850 · Recreation & SportsTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON: $3,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $400 · Recreation & SportsTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $17,000 · HealthSHERRILL HOUSE INC: $6,250 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 · HealthCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $4,000 · HealthTHE VINCENT CLUB INC: $1,250 · Health+3 more: $1,050 · HealthISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $8,250 · Arts & Culture152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 · Arts & CultureIRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBROOKLINE MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $750 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC: $550 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $1,300 · Arts & Culture
Other$745,338Community Improvement$306,752Education$148,850Environment$47,705Recreation & Sports$38,750Health$34,550Arts & Culture$15,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $306,752 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL: $56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $31,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $25,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $24,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRANDEGEE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CARROLL SCHOOL: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADIRONDACK FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $8,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE GREENSPACE ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHERRILL HOUSE INC: $6,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Islesboro Pre-School: $5,750 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetISLESBORO COMMUNITY FUND: $5,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,450 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHOLDERNESS SCHOOL: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC: $4,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHADY HILL SCHOOL: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetIslesboro Community Center: $3,850 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $3,250 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTHE GARDEN CONSERVANCY INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SKATING CLUB OF BOSTON: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $2,125 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beacon Project: $1,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FUND FOR EMMANUEL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARBORETUM PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,500 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetSCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMaine Farmland Trust: $1,400 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $1,350 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VINCENT CLUB INC: $1,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSLIDE RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLESBORO AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $950 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $900 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIslesboro Affordable Property: $800 over 8y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Hamilton Company …Palace Head Foundatio…Windhover FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…Clarence & Anne Dillo…Amelia Peabody Charit…Lois Chiles FoundationStevenson Family Char…Alchemy Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA36.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 The Albright Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Albright Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Albright Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Albright Foundation 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 155 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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