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The Edgerley Family 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $562k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
- $250k+16 grants · $33M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YEAR UP | $13,000,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $7,250,000 |
| KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $3,030,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $2,500,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $1,210,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $1,102,000 |
| CITY YEAR | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $600,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $500,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC | $500,000 |
| NEW PROFIT INC | $450,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $313,500 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC | $300,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE INC | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The Edgerley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
81 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 38 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- KSKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $22M · revenue +42%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +12%- NPNEW PROFIT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +52%
Funded once
- HCHARVARD CAMPAIGNone grant, 2022 · $2.0M
- LCLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- JFJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -5%
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.
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.
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 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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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…
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.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Boston Firemen's Relief Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
119 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. 119 of the 184 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 KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds UNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SHOOTING TOUCH INC ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN IDEA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Broad Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSCHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · GivenGain Foundation USA · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lynch Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation · Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd
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 Edgerley Family 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.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- National Fallen Firefighters Foundation — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America — 21% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- The Broad Institute Inc — 19% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Masschallenge Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Attleboro Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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