· Private foundation
The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation
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 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 $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $10,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $6,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| THE VICTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S BOSTON | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| YMCA TRAINING INC | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS | $3,000 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $2,500 |
| WBUR | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $107k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 92% of The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 8% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +20%- AAASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +41%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- SRSPAULDING REHABILITATION NETWORKone grant, 2019 · $15k
- QBQUINCY BAND BOOSTERS CO QUINCY HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · $10k
- MBMASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -1%
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 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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pirandello Lyceum Inc. 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 48 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.
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
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- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Speakeasy Stage Company Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RESPOND Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds Summer Stars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Franklin Square House Foundation Inc · Ploughshares Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc
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 George and Alice Rich Charitable 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.
- Victim Rights Law Center Inc — 89% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Boston Camerata Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Bar Association — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School 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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