· Private foundation
The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $70,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $35,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $25,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $25,000 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $20,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $20,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $19,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| BOSTON LYRIC OPERA | $10,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| OPERA AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +94%
HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC9× · 2017–2025 · $626k · revenue +139%
WGBH Educational Foundation4× · 2021–2025 · $184k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TTTALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +57%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- RLRalph Lowell Society GBH Ch2one grant, 2020 · $10k
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 museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
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.…
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…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
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…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Chooda. 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 47 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 107 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 BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds TALL TIMBERS RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EKWANOK SCHOLARSHIP TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VINCENT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE WALDEN WOODS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The Dorset Equine Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PILOTS TO THE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ELEPHANT SANCTUARY IN TENNESSEE ↗
- Who funds PINE MANOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DORSET THEATRE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND 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 · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · The Martin & Deborah Hale Foundation · Grayson Family Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Schmaltz Enroth Family Foundation · The Elm Grove Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Truettner Family Foundation
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 Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry 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.
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Tall Timbers Research Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Walden Woods Project — 6% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Gore Place Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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