· Private foundation
The Dwyer Foundation
Its FY2024 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $56k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $50,955 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC | $17,086 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $14,546 |
| BOSTON POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE | $14,280 |
| THE GOVENORS ACADEMY | $10,206 |
| OUR LADY'S SCHOOL | $5,800 |
| INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $5,181 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF HOPE | $5,000 |
| LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE | $3,925 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,100 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $1,796 |
| SAN DIEGO ZOO | $1,202 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATIONS | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of The Dwyer Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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 BOSTON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $250k · revenue +70%- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC5× · 2017–2021 · $233k · revenue +24%
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +492%
Funded once
- TLThe Light Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +52%
- TETELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +299%
- BTBOYS TO MEN MENTORING OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2022 · $5k
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 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.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
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.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.
To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.
How this is measured
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 97 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 BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds RADY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Light Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds INVEST IN OTHERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TELLURIDE EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGE JACKSON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO ASSOCIATION OF PHYSICIANS OF INDIAN ORIGIN ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES OF SPINAL MUSCULAR ATROPHY DBA CURE SMA ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gardner Family Charitable Foundation · The Quaker Hill Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Aaf Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dwyer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dwyer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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