· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE VICTORY CENTER | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| SHRINER'S CHILDREN'S BOSTON | $5,000 |
| YMCA TRAINING INC | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS | $3,000 |
| WBUR | $2,500 |
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $2,500 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 92% of The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 8%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- RIRESPOND Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +74%
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 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.
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 54 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 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHORUS PRO MUSICA INC ↗
- 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 RESPOND Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS BAR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Summer Stars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER 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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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