· Private foundation
The Elmwood Charitable Trust of October 1985
Its FY2025 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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $18k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF FUMBELO INC | $18,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST CHURCH | $8,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| CONGRESSIONAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CREATIVES WANT CHANGE | $5,000 |
| ST JAMES CATHOLIC CHURCH | $2,500 |
| FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $2,000 |
| JESUIT VOLUNTEER CORPS | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| LYNCH VAN OTTERLOO YMCCA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| PREPPINGREE | $1,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $1,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR | $1,000 |
| ST THOMAS MORE CHAPEL | $750 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCongressional School Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $48k · revenue +15%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +9%- BABEACON ACADEMY INC3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- KMKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -50%
MILTON ACADEMYone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +10%
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.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8
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.
Suffield Academy is a coeducational independent secondary school serving a diverse student body of day and boarding students from across the United States and from many foreign counties. The school is grounded in a tradition of academic…
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Belmont Hill School educates boys in mind, body, and spirit to develop men of good character. Our community encourages and challenges students to discover and pursue passions, seek excellence and face adversity with resilience. We…
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The international school of boston (isb) is an independent, non-profit, preschool-12 french-english bilingual and international school located in cambridge, massachusetts, in one of the most vibrant metropolitan areas in the united states.…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 39 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 Congressional School Inc ↗
- Who funds LEO INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds ASCENT SOCCER USA ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF FUMBELO INC ↗
- Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds BEACON ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVES WANT CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MIGUEL EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds EXCEL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS SCHOOL OF BUFFALO ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Susan L Curtis Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Elmwood Charitable Trust of October 1985 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Elmwood Charitable Trust of October 1985. Bigger dots raise more.
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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