· Private foundation
The Gladys Avery 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 $10k11 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASSMETROWEST INC | $20,000 |
| FIRST PARISH IN WAYLAND | $2,000 |
| LAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC | $1,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| BOULDER CANCER FIGHTERS | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LOWER OLENTANGY WATERSHED (FLOW) | $1,000 |
| PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF THE CAROLINAS | $1,000 |
| THRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER | $1,000 |
| ALTA COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| PELOTONIA | $250 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC4× · 2022–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
- TSTHRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER3× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +55%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE LOWER OLENTANGY WATERSHED FLOW3× · 2022–2025 · $3k · revenue +0%
Funded once
- AFANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2022 · $20k
- BBBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2020 · $12k
- CTCAM TREDGETT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $5k
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 purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Asco association promotes the common business interests of its members by: (1) advocating for policies that improve the quality of cancer care; (2) maintaining the highest standards of oncology medical care through programs supporting…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The mission of the corporation shall be to work with partners to protect and restore native ecosystems and watersheds, to improve the quality and quantity of freshwater resources to perpetuate hawaiian cultural resources and practices, to…
To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…
To create beautiful running events that promote health and benefit our community.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
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.…
Ahip is the national trade association representing the health insurance industry. ahip's members provide health care coverage, services and solutions to more than 200 million americans. we are committed to market-based solutions and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Rowing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayland High School Scholarship Fund Committee. 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 35 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 40 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 BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THRIVE SURVIVOR SUPPORT CENTER ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND HIGH BOOSTERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Bread and Roses Community Fund ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LOWER OLENTANGY WATERSHED FLOW ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND COMMUNITY POOL INC ↗
- Who funds ISSUE ONE ↗
- Who funds ALTA COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds LAHAINA COMMUNITY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of South Slough Reserve Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLE'S FUND ↗
- Who funds AINA MOMONA ↗
- Who funds BOULDER CANCER FIGHTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Association of the Carolinas ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONING ACCESS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds WAYLAND HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds FLYIN RYAN HAWKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds PELOTONIA ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Gladys Avery 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% 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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