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The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation

Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$28k
Granted FY2019
9
Grants FY2019
8
Organizations funded FY2019
75%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$450
Largest grant, FY2019
$16,536
Organizations funded a year
5 to 8
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
3
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 75% of the organizations The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 98% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
HealthArts & CultureInternationalRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20198$28k75%
FY20185$70060%
FY20177$3kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Arts & Culture$17kFood & Nutrition$8kHealth$4kEducation$3kPhilanthropy$650International$500Housing & Shelter$150Human Services$150Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 11 grantees
All grantees of The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Tall Ship Providence Foundation$16,53615%
Dana Hall School$2,60010%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$2,50010%
Marion Art Center Inc$75020%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$50010%
Grassroots International Inc$50020%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$38010%
Simmons University$25020%
Bike And Build Inc$15010%
Three Squares New England Inc$10010%
Tenacity Inc$10010%

Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTall Ship Providence Foundation: $16,536 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetDana Hall School: $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrassroots International Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc: $380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimmons University: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBike And Build Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThree Squares New England Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenacity Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 11.

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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation

How much does The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation give?
The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $28,486 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 8 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (52%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Health (11%).
Who are The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: Tall Ship Providence Foundation ($17k), Dana Hall School ($3k), Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc ($3k).
Does The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation based?
The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation is based in MA.

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 17 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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