· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k8 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TALL SHIP PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION | $16,536 |
| MASS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY GARDENS AT ELM BANK | $7,500 |
| PMC JIMMY FUND | $2,500 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| MARION ART CENTER | $450 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK | $380 |
| FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST | $300 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL | $250 |
| TRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATION | $70 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +56% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2019, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (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 FY2019, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MAMarion Art Center Inc2× · 2017–2019 · $750 · revenue +184%
- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC2× · 2018–2019 · $500 · revenue +56%
SIMMONS UNIVERSITY2× · 2017–2018 · $250 · revenue -2%
Funded once
DANA HALL SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +26%- GSGOOD SAMARITANS COMMUNITY SERVICESone grant, 2018 · $150
- BABike And Build Incone grant, 2017 · $150 · revenue -100%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The bsa foundation exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing the innovation in the built environment. as a community non-profit organization, we achieve this mission in partnership with the boston…
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 17 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 Tall Ship Providence Foundation ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Bike And Build Inc ↗
- Who funds THREE SQUARES NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Edward Novakoff Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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