· Private foundation
The Creighton Narada 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $378k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $800k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Lynn | $115,000 |
| Manchester essex conservation Trust Inc | $115,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $115,000 |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $100,000 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $90,000 |
| Trustees of Reservations | $85,000 |
| Museum of Science | $80,000 |
| Trustees of Boston University | $50,000 |
| Maine Initiatives Inc | $50,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $45,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $45,000 |
| Vinalhaven Land Trust Inc | $45,000 |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services Inc | $40,000 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $40,000 |
| Cape Ann Museum Inc | $30,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +8% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $615k · revenue +491%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +11%- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCE6× · 2020–2025 · $430k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- WHWHITE HORSE STEPSTONEone grant, 2024 · $25k
- BHBEVERLY HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $5k
- RTRANK THE VOTE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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.
Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
Conservation and preservation of land.
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 52 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VINALHAVEN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE ↗
- Who funds CUTCHINS PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL 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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Creighton Narada Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Creighton Narada Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Community Action Pioneer Valley: 62% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc: 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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