· Private foundation
The Devereaux Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of The Devereaux Foundation’s FY2019 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. FY2019 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Devereaux Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $57k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k15 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Change is Simple | $11,000 |
| University of New Brunswick | $10,000 |
| New Rochelle YMCA | $10,000 |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Rockport Music | $2,000 |
| First Church of Wenham | $2,000 |
| Pan Mass Challenge Jimmy Fund | $2,000 |
| WGBH Ralph Lowell Society | $1,500 |
| Care Dimensions | $1,000 |
| Harvard Business School | $1,000 |
| Special Olympics of New Jersey | $1,000 |
| Beverly Historical Society & Museum | $1,000 |
| Endicott College | $1,000 |
| The Beverly Education Foundation | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2018, 1 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2019, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +101%
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +118%
ENDICOTT COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- TIThompson Island Outward Boundone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HCHARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +48%
- CPCOVE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATIONone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +1%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
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,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I and the most unlike its peers is Harvard Club of Boston Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC ↗
- Who funds New Rochelle Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OCEAN HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds Montserrat College Of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BEVERLY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COVE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Devereaux Foundation 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.
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montserrat College of Art Inc — 3% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
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.