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The Dinovi Family Foundation at a glance

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The Dinovi Family 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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
36
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$500k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$4.7MEducation$4.2MScience & Tech$1.1MSocial Science$510kPhilanthropy$398kPublic Safety & Disaster$118kArts & Culture$113kYouth Development$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $160k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $525k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD$500,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$400,000
BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL$300,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$250,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$100,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION$100,000
HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL$100,000
OFF-BRAND OPERA$75,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$50,000
REGIS HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
DREAM FOUNDATION$50,000
LOST TREE VILLAGE CHARITABLE$30,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA$25,000
ST PATRICK CATHOLIC CHURCH$15,000
THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 8%DREAM FOUNDATION: $50k → 10%AID INTERNATIONAL INC: $1k → 10%THE BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $250 → 9%DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%BALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $5k → 9%DREAM FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%DREAM FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%ANSWER THE CALL: $5k → 17%NY POLICE & FIRE WIDOW'S & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND: $3k → 17%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $3k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $3k → 16%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

NH
NY
MA
IA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MD
KS
NC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.5M · 49 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

49 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
46

Total granted

$8.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+48%

Still filing today

65%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +29%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +162%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    7× · 2017–2025 · $562k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $600k
  • TF
    TEACH FOR AMERICA BOSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • MC
    MASSACHUSETTS COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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
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
3
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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4
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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5
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
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
7
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
8
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
9
Northeastern University
Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
11
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Stepping Stone 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

58 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. 58 of the 108 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,942,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $600,000 · OtherTHE BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITALHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL: $510,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOLRegis High School: $361,000 · OtherRegis High SchoolHarvard College Fund: $262,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL IDE: $210,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $200,000 · OtherTHE GIFT ACCOUNT OF DANA-FARBER: $200,000 · Other+61 more: $969,140 · Other+61 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,925,408 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $1,267,500 · EducationNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOLDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $550,000 · EducationDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INCTeach for America Inc: $275,000 · EducationTeach for America Inc+14 more: $462,500 · Education+14 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,015,000 · HealthDana-Farber Can…Children's Hospital Corporation: $561,500 · HealthChildren's Hosp…+4 more: $50,500 · HealthDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $80,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $27,500 · Human ServicesNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesBALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $5,250 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $55,000 · PhilanthropySwim Across America Inc: $25,600 · PhilanthropyFoundations in Education Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropySCHOOL THE WORLD INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $3,500 · PhilanthropyGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $57,000 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $35,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,254,640Education$4,480,408Health$1,627,000Human Services$121,250Philanthropy$99,100Community Improvement$57,000Youth Development$35,000

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 budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,925,408 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $1,267,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,015,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $561,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC: $550,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $275,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUP EDUCATION NETWORK: $100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetDALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $57,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Region Conservation Trust: $30,500 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $27,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $25,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLost Tree Village Charitable Foundation: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDRILLING COMPANY THEATRICAL PRODUCTIONS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetNASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEU LEARNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetAmerican Friends of Jamaica Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARRAY EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCreative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALS ONE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $8,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNY POLICE AND FIRE WIDOWS' & CHILDREN'S BENEFIT FUND INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $7,027 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBALD PEAK COMMUNITY FUND: $5,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL THE WORLD INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE PRESERVATION SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE 1ST LIEUTENANT DEREK HINES SOLD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALS UNITED GREATER NEW YORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds UP EDUCATION NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DALMATIAN DREAMS DBA DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds New York University ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds Lakes Region Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds MARK BAVIS LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Swim Across America Inc ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…The Goldman Sachs Cha…National Philanthropi…Gs Donor Advised Phil…The Ayco Charitable F…Combined Jewish Phila…The Pfizer Foundation…New Hampshire Charita…D a Hamel Family Char…
Boston Foundation IncMA23.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · D a Hamel Family Charitable Trust Xxxxx5007

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 Dinovi Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dinovi Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Up Education Network: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Nashoba Learning Group Inc: 14% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% 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
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 108 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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