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The Amg Charitable Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Amg Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
19
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$13MEducation$1.2MPhilanthropy$1.1MInternational$820kFood & Nutrition$518kYouth Development$433kEmployment$380kRecreation & Sports$322kOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k62 grants · $143k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $497k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$5,000
Median grant
19
States reached
$5.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OPEN DOOR$250,000
BRIGHT FUNDS EE MATCHING$164,675
SEAN M HEALEY AND AMG CENTER FOR ALS AT MGH$150,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$150,000
THE RED SOX FOUNDATION$141,090
ROOT NORTH SHORE INC$100,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$100,000
PEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES$75,000
ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION$74,000
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$52,500
INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES INC$50,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$41,020
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$35,000
GIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON$34,406
IMAGINE SCHOLAR$33,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 20% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFEWORKS INCORPORATED: $3k → 7%MIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $11k → 15%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $10k → 10%Cradles To Crayons Inc: $2k → 22%Wellspring House: $7k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $5k → 10%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $1k → 9%Wellspring House: $5k → 10%Pathways for Children Inc: $5k → 10%STELLA AND CHARLES GUTTMAN COMMUNITY COLLEGE ASSOC: $500 → 17%Pathways For Children: $2k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $8k → 8%Wellspring House: $1k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $8k → 8%Communities United Inc: $5k → 8%Communities United Inc: $3k → 8%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $1k → 9%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $400 → 10%Cradles To Crayons Inc: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY GIVING TREE INC: $150 → 10%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
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 46 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 63 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
123

Total granted

$15M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $923k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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 OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $253k · revenue +4%
  • TR
    THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $241k · revenue +22%
  • IS
    IMAGINE SCHOLAR INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $235k · revenue +12% · 25% of their budget

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE FUND
    one grant, 2022 · $722k
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $600k · revenue +34%
  • BF
    BRIGHT FUNDS QUARTERLY EMPLOYEE MATCHING
    one grant, 2023 · $306k
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
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
2
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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3
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
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

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
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
7
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
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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10
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Queens College Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Rhino Foundation 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

168 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 168 of the 238 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
164/168
Grantees still filing
110/168
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts General Hospital: $11,915,674 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitalBRIGHT FUNDS EE MATCHING: $731,432 · OtherHUMANITARIAN SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE FUND: $722,044 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $600,000 · Other+127 more: $2,908,000 · Other+127 moreIMAGINE SCHOLAR INC: $235,000 · EducationTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $100,000 · EducationTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $88,900 · EducationSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $63,780 · EducationWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $36,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC: $31,000 · Education+18 more: $90,859 · EducationTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $52,700 · HealthMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $20,000 · Health+15 more: $63,699 · HealthTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $241,090 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $92,500 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USA: $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $14,000 · Philanthropy+8 more: $27,500 · PhilanthropyPEOPLE ENGAGED IN ACTIVE COMMUNITY EFFORTS INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $43,635 · Civil RightsNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $32,875 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $10,000 · Civil RightsTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $79,900 · Community ImprovementBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $64,452 · Community ImprovementHANDI CAPABLE FITNESS INC: $7,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $1,500 · Community ImprovementGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON: $89,606 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,500 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentHUNTS POINT ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN: $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$16,877,150Education$645,539Health$486,399Philanthropy$390,090Civil Rights$156,510Community Improvement$152,852Youth Development$147,106

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $253,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWEST PALM GOLF COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $250,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $241,090 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetIMAGINE SCHOLAR INC: $235,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $234,652 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILLISTON NORTHAMPTON SCHOOL: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $92,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN GREATER BOSTON: $89,606 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BENJAMIN PRIVATE SCHOOL INC: $88,900 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $79,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE SERVING PEOPLE CHARITIES INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $64,452 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $63,780 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC: $56,400 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $52,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPEOPLE ENGAGED IN ACTIVE COMMUNITY EFFORTS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $43,635 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $38,586 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $37,330 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetROOT NS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $32,875 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN INTERNATIONAL INC: $32,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE FOR EARLY COLLEGE INC: $31,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAdopt a Family Inc: $26,107 over 4y, 69% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION USA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED INC: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF GARSINGTON OPERA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $15,450 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $14,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $13,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INC: $12,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalm Beach County Food Bank Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIAMI JEWISH HEALTH SYSTEMS INC: $11,451 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $11,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Essex County Communit…The Carroll and Milto…Eastern Bank Foundati…Institution for Savin…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Salem Five Charitable…The New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Leslie S & Marcia C R…Kenwood Foundation 75…Van Otterloo Family F…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA31× affinity14 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · The Carroll and Milton Petrie Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc · Kenwood Foundation 7521-Xxxxxx21240 · Van Otterloo 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 The Amg Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Amg Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Arc Massachusetts Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Communities United Inc: 89% of income from government
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Lifeworks Incorporated: 81% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
  • Douglas a Thom Clinic Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Nourishing the North Shore Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Salem Sound 2000 Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Adopt-a-Family of the Palm Beaches Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Girls On the Run Greater Boston: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Green Beverly 107Q Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc: 0% 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
31get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 238 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home