· Private foundation
The Louis Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $94k
- $250k+1 grant · $333k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $333,333 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS | $29,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| SPONSOR INC | $3,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| PINE CAY PROJECT | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $1,000 |
| YALE CLASS OF 69 DUES | $500 |
| SHAFTSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $160 |
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, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those 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 +36% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
61 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 5 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $400k 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
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC7× · 2019–2025 · $355k · revenue +129%- TATHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $226k · revenue +5%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2018–2023 · $150k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IRInternational Rescue Committee INCone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -2%
- C4CUMMINGS 4TH YEAR SCHOLARSHIPone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BIBETH ISRAELone grant, 2024 · $75k
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.
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 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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
To provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.
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…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pine Cay Project. 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 47 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 — 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.
57 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 57 of the 106 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 THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION BURMA THAILAND MYANMAR ↗
- Who funds THE WEEKAPAUG FOUNDATION FOR CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vermont Public Radio ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds REVELSINC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds EverScholar Inc ↗
- Who funds Pine Cay Project ↗
- Who funds VERMONT LAND TRUST 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 · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Marci and Martin Karplus Family Foundation · Royce Family Fund Inc · The New York Community Trust · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Alchemy Foundation
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 Louis 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.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Vermont Land Trust Inc — 42% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Town of Bennington Rescue Squad Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
- Revelsinc — 1% of income from government
- Brattle Film Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Vermont Community 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.