· Public charity
The Harbus Foundation
Support projects and awarding grants and scholarships to programs involved in journalism, literacy and educational activities surrounding the harvard business school.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RAISING A READER | $20,000 |
| ENROOT INC | $20,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR INVESTIGATIV | $20,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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
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.
To ensure that every student can become a confident, independent, and lifelong reader by partnering with schools and communities to provide personalized, evidence-based literacy support and individualized instruction. the organization…
We use the power of reading aloud together to build connections across families, schools, and communities to cultivate students learning and success.
Literacy Together transforms lives and communities through the power of literacy. Trained volunteers provide free tutoring to support youth and adults and help them achieve their educational goals, from basic literacy and English language…
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
Read alliance, inc (read alliance) works to accelerate the educational trajectory of early elementary students through the power of teens who provide one-to-one literacy tutoring in under-resourced communities. read impacts two populations…
The goal and vision of teach western mass, inc. is to attract, hire, develop, and retain quality teachers for western massachuseets urban classrooms.
To make high-quality literacy materials accessible to teachers and the general public for the advancement of education.
Year-round, one-to-one tutoring program provided at Title 1 schools to students not at grade-level proficiency in reading. Tutors are area teens recruited and trained to deliver reading support.
To provide access for everyone who wants to learn how to read to have an opportunity to do so
Strengthening kids and communities through the power of stories.
The mission of Writers in the Schools (WITS) is to connect children and youth with professional writers and spoken word artists to unlock the joy and power of storytelling and creative expression.
Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving
How this is measured
9 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.
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.
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: Wellington Management Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Harbus Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Harbus Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Generation Teach Inc: 42% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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