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The Devereaux Foundation at a glance

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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.

$57k
Granted FY2018
18
Grants FY2018
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

9
’17
11
’18
7
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Philanthropy$404kEducation$53kEnvironment$42kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$17kArts & Culture$16kReligion$8kHealth$7kOther$0
02FY2018 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k15 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
$1,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
First Church of Wenham$2,000
Rockport Music$2,000
Pan Mass Challenge Jimmy Fund$2,000
WGBH Ralph Lowell Society$1,500
Beverly Historical Society & Museum$1,000
Harvard Business School$1,000
Endicott College$1,000
The Beverly Education Foundation$1,000
Special Olympics of New Jersey$1,000
Salvation Army$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Salvation Army: $1k → 8%Pan Mass Challenge Jimmy Fund: $2k → 10%YMCA of Central Massachusetts: $5k → 11%Harvard Club of Boston Foundation: $1k → 16%New Rochelle YMCA: $10k → 9%Special Olympics of New Jersey: $1k → 11%Ocean Housing Alliance Inc: $5k → 11%The Michael J Fox Foundation: $1k → 7%Salvation Army: $1k → 8%Pan Mass Challenge Jimmy Fund: $1k → 10%YMCA of Central Massachusetts: $3k → 11%Harvard Business School: $1k → 16%Special Olympics of New Jersey: $1k → 11%Salvation Army: $1k → 8%Pan Mass Challenge Jimmy Fund: $1k → 10%Harvard Business School: $1k → 16%Rockport Music: $2k → 10%Harvard Business School: $1k → 16%Marblehead Scholarship Fund: $1k → 10%Conservation Law Foundation: $1k → 16%Change is Simple: $20k → 10%Conservation Law Foundation: $1k → 16%Change is Simple: $11k → 10%Applachian Mountain Cl: $3k → 16%Cabot Performing Arts: $10k → 10%Applachian Mountain Cl: $3k → 16%Change is Simple: $9k → 10%WGBH Public Radio: $2k → 16%Beverly Bootstraps Community Services: $6k → 10%Applachian Mountain Cl: $3k → 16%Endicott College: $5k → 10%WGBH Ralph Lowell Society: $2k → 16%Cove Parent Teacher Association: $4k → 10%Thompson Island Outward Bound: $15k → 16%Beverly Bootstraps Community Services: $3k → 10%Endicott College: $1k → 10%Beverly Historical Society & Museum: $1k → 10%Montserrat College of Art: $1k → 10%Montserrat College of Art: $1k → 10%The Beverly Education Foundation: $1k → 10%Cove Parent Teacher Organization: $1k → 10%Endicott College: $1k → 10%Beverly Historical Society & Museum: $1k → 10%The Beverly Education Foundation: $1k → 10%First Church of Wenham: $4k → 10%First Church of Wenham: $2k → 10%First Church of Wenham: $2k → 10%Care Dimensions: $1k → 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.
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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$139k · 16 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
3

Total granted

$139k
$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+48%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $40k · revenue +101%
  • BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +118%
  • ENDICOTT COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2019 · $7k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • TI
    Thompson Island Outward Bound
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • HC
    HARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +48%
  • CP
    COVE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +1%
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
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
Dean College

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,…

Education
5
Ocean State Cancer Crushers
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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
Bentley University

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…

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
9
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
10
Dickinson College

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

Education
11
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
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I; 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.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
15/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $402,583 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+1 more: $9,000 · Community ImprovementUniversity of New Brunswick: $35,000 · OtherUniversity of New Bruns…Thompson Island Outward Bound: $15,000 · OtherThompson Island Outward…Cabot Performing Arts: $10,000 · OtherCabot Performing ArtsNew Rochelle Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $10,000 · OtherNew Rochelle Young Men'…Individual grant recipient: $9,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipi…First Church of Wenham: $8,000 · OtherFirst Church of WenhamYMCA of Central Massachusetts: $8,000 · OtherYMCA of Central Massach…+11 more: $26,000 · Other+11 moreCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC: $39,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentENDICOTT COLLEGE: $7,000 · EducationTHE BEVERLY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · EducationMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $2,000 · EducationHARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationCOVE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $1,000 · EducationOCEAN HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 · HealthROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture
Community Improvement$411,583Other$121,000Environment$41,500Education$13,000Health$5,000Arts & Culture$2,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $402,583 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC: $39,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNew Rochelle Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $9,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BEVERLY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW JERSEY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARVARD CLUB OF BOSTON FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOVE PARENT TEACHER ORGANIZATION: $1,000 over 1y, 2.0% 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…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Devereaux Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Devereaux Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 29 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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