· Private foundation
The Flatley 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k114 grants · $12M
- $250k+32 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $5,000,000 |
| ACEING AUTISM INC | $1,500,000 |
| CARE USA | $1,000,000 |
| JETT FOUNDATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $1,000,000 |
| SAINT BENEDICT ACADEMY | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICARES INC | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICARES INC | $1,000,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC | $500,000 |
| TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND INC | $500,000 |
| AMERICARES INC | $500,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $500,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON | $450,000 |
| FUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC | $400,000 |
| COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS | $385,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
158 repeat relationships: 121 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +28%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +50%- AAACEING AUTISM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +112% · 87% of their budget
Funded once
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANSone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
- COCHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILYone grant, 2023 · $630k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USAone grant, 2020 · $400k · 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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
How this is measured
116 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. 116 of the 216 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · The Harborone Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Flatley Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Flatley Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Road to Responsibility Inc: 92% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc: 78% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
- Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
- Clinical & Support Options Inc: 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc: 27% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc: 14% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc: 5% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc: 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
- Lasell University: 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- Regis College: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hyannis Public Library: 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 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
- Ave Maria University Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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