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The Am Fund

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.

$462k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$80k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$803kInternational$587kReligion$340kPublic Benefit$165kArts & Culture$109kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kCommunity Improvement$72kHuman Services$55kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $190k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW ISRAEL FUND$80,000
J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC$60,000
RIVERS SCHOOL$50,000
ISSUE ONE$25,000
MIL MILAGROS$25,000
INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI$25,000
COMBINED JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF GREATER BOSTON$25,000
CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY$20,000
CENTER FOR WOMEN AND ENTERPRISE$20,000
HOPE & MAIN$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS BUDGET AND POLICY CENTER$15,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC$10,000
NICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER$10,000
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS$10,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $3k → 8%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $10k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $10k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $10k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $10k → 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.

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.

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 24 repeat orgs$332k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • JS
    J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $340k · revenue +61%
  • TR
    THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +19%
  • DC
    DEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $153k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • TB
    THE BOSTON RESILIENCY FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR
    one grant, 2020 · $20k

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
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
10
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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11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
National Association of Independent Schools Inc

As the largest association of independent schools, nais co-creates the future of education by uniting and empowering our community. we do this through thought leadership, research, creation and curation of resources, and direct…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. 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 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%33%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr14%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr14%37%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
11%
3,438/30,450

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 52 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $250,000 · OtherTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATIONLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC — $100,000 · OtherLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE M…THE BOSTON RESILIENCY FUND — $100,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON RESILIENCY FUNDMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc — $60,000 · OtherMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center …MASS COMMUNITIES FOR ACTION NETWORK — $55,000 · OtherMASS COMMUNITIES FOR ACTION NETWORKRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $30,000 · OtherCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $50,000 · OtherCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITYCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $35,000 · Other+25 more — $167,700 · Other+25 moreNEW ISRAEL FUND — $400,000 · InternationalNEW ISRAEL FUNDINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $100,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND D…+2 more — $7,250 · InternationalDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $152,500 · EducationDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SC…NUYA INC — $127,000 · EducationNUYA INCROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 · EducationROGER WILLIAMS UNIVER…JITEGEMEE INC — $30,000 · EducationJITEGEMEE INCBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $20,000 · Education+3 more — $23,000 · EducationJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $340,000 · ReligionJ STREET EDUCATI…ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $2,700 · Arts & CultureISSUE ONE — $102,500 · Public BenefitCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$847,700International$507,250Education$452,500Religion$340,000Arts & Culture$102,700Public Benefit$102,500Philanthropy$55,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND — $400,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $340,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION — $250,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDEDHAM COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $152,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNUYA INC — $127,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetISSUE ONE — $102,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $100,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $100,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $50,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetJITEGEMEE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHOPE & MAIN — $27,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROOT NS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNICARAGUAN EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited for A Fair Economy Inc — $7,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAND IN HAND AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE CENTER FOR JEWISH-ARAB EDUCATION IN ISRA — $5,250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ACADEMY — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN LEGAL CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HEALTHCARE CENTER INC — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHACHER & STRAITSMOUTH ISLANDS ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CATALYST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO TEN FOOTWEAR FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $200 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.

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…Cummings Foundation G…Combined Jewish Phila…United Way Of Massach…Children's Hospital C…Bushrod H Campbell & …Fidelity FoundationCitizens Charitable F…Cambridge Savings Cha…Liberty Mutual Founda…The John H and H Naom…
Boston Foundation IncMA34.3× affinity17 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde 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 Am Fund 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 · 140%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Jewish Healthcare Center Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Catalyst Inc — 15% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston's Higher Ground Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 52 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.

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