· Private foundation
The Charles Irwin Travelli Fund
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $184,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH | $143,000 |
| KEENE STATE COLLEGE | $135,000 |
| SIMMONS COLLEGE | $132,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE | $132,500 |
| CLARK UNIVERSITY | $132,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS | $132,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $123,500 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $110,500 |
| TUFTS UNIVERSITY | $104,000 |
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $94,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE | $70,400 |
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 (FY17–22, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 CLARK UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +46%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +110%
PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $955k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- UOUUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELLone grant, 2017 · $40k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
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.
The mission of Reed College is to provide education in the liberal arts and sciences.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
Bryant University's mission is to educate and inspire students to discover their passion and become innovative leaders with character around the world.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 CLARK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds BECKER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PEAK MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles Irwin Travelli Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles Irwin Travelli Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 0% of income from government
- Simmons University: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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