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The Edgerley Family Foundation at a glance

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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.

$35M
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$13M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$37MEmployment$20MScience & Tech$12MHealth$10MYouth Development$4.4MPhilanthropy$3.4MCommunity Improvement$2.9MArts & Culture$2.3MOther$0
02FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $562k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+16 grants · $33M
$10,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$239M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 17%YOUTH VILLAGES: $100k → 10%YOUTH VILLAGES: $50k → 10%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $625k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $500k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $125k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $125k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $710k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $600k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%UNCORNERED INC: $150k → 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

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
OK
MS
GA
TX
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The Edgerley Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Edgerley Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$77M · 81 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
59

Total granted

$77M
$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+21%

Still filing today

72%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthPhilanthropyInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • KS
    KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $22M · revenue +42%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +12%
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +49%

Funded once

  • HC
    HARVARD CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M
  • LC
    LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • JF
    JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -14%
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
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
5
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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6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
12
Northeastern University
Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; 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.
05the grantee network

119 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

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)
118/119
Grantees still filing
67/119
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22,471,263 · EducationKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONYEAR UP INC: $20,005,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,350,300 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,717,500 · Education+13 more: $1,658,300 · EducationMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $7,500,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALCITY YEAR INC: $6,000,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCHARVARD CAMPAIGN: $2,000,000 · OtherHARVARD CAMPAIGNMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON (MFA FUND): $1,269,000 · OtherONEGOAL: $1,200,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,054,500 · OtherSTRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC: $1,035,184 · OtherRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,025,000 · Other+118 more: $9,350,261 · Other+118 moreHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1,410,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $1,375,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INC: $150,000 · Human Services+1 more: $25,000 · Human ServicesBoston Foundation Inc: $2,514,000 · PhilanthropyThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $180,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $150,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $185,000 · PhilanthropyNEW PROFIT INC: $2,300,000 · Community ImprovementMASSCHALLENGE INC: $200,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $109,500 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,813,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentASPEN ART MUSEUM: $237,500 · Arts & CultureEMBRACE BOSTON INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC: $75,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture+11 more: $83,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$59,202,363Other$30,433,945Human Services$3,160,000Philanthropy$3,029,000Community Improvement$2,609,500Youth Development$1,968,000Arts & Culture$741,000

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 budgetKANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $22,471,263 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $20,005,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $12,350,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $6,000,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $2,717,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $2,514,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $2,300,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,813,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1,410,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $1,375,000 over 4y, 9.8% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,054,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSTRATEGIC GRANT PARTNERS INC: $1,035,184 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,025,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,000,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Of America: $650,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUNITE AMERICA INSTITUTE INC: $500,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $430,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC: $430,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC: $330,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCENTERLINE LIBERTIES INC: $250,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetASPEN ART MUSEUM: $237,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetAMERICAN IDEA FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetMASSCHALLENGE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC: $200,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc: $180,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $150,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $136,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $130,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $125,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRACE BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH: $92,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFABNEWPORT INC: $83,800 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALT LICK INCUBATOR INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE COUNTRY CLUB: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetThe Children's Mercy Hospital: $65,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $52,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…GivenGain Foundation …The New England Patri…The Lynch FoundationBoston Bruins Charita…Barr FoundationHighland Street Conne…The Robert and Michel…Bain Capital Children…
Boston Foundation IncMA52.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Edgerley Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Edgerley Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 184 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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