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The Ilene Beal Charitable 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $665k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA FARBER | $200,000 |
| ELLIE FUND FOR BREAST CANCER | $140,000 |
| THE WILY NETWORK | $125,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| THE COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORK | $75,000 |
| HOSPITALITY HOMES | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $42,000 |
| WATER COMPASS | $40,000 |
| THE BOSTON HOUSE | $40,000 |
| SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON | $25,000 |
| RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ROOM | $15,000 |
| CAMP CASCO | $8,000 |
| ONEMISSION | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $122k 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
- DIDANA-FARBER INC5× · 2019–2024 · $959k · revenue +50%
- CPCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +72%
- TWTHE WILY NETWORK5× · 2020–2024 · $530k · revenue +42%
Funded once
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $150k · revenue +132%- AFADA Forsyth Institute Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $50k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Runway for Recovery Inc and the most unlike its peers is Water Compass Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 36 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 DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ADA Forsyth Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WATER COMPASS INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Casco Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEMOURS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PREBLE STREET ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds ONE MISSION 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 · Margaret S Lindsay Foundation of 1989 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Stifler Family Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving 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 Ilene Beal 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.
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 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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