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The New England Council Inc

To foster growth of the competitive enterprise system of business in new england; to develop and maintain comprehensive views of new england conditions and problems; to secure recognition of the commonality of economic interest specific to the new england region that transcends current political boundaries; to bring together the…

$59k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$36kRecreation & Sports$30kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$15kInternational$10kCivil Rights$6kCommunity Improvement$6kHealth$5k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $16,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $59,137 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,137 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION$10,000
NEW ENGLAND LEGAL FOUNDATION$6,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE: $5k → 7%JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN NE: $5k → 8%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 16%CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $5k → 16%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5k → 16%CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION: $5k → 16%WHITTIER STREET HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON: $10k → 16%THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND: $10k → 16%NEW ENGLAND LEGAL FOUNDATION: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$71k · 3 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +229% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
6

Total granted

$71k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+229%
+16%

Still filing today

67%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureCivil RightsHealthInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • JF
    JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED
    5× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue -43%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    3× · 2017–2019 · $30k · revenue +229%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +75%
  • NH
    NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON D C
    one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -35%
  • IC
    IRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +6%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
5
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
6
Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education
7
The University Club of Boston

See schedule o.founded in 1891, the university club is boston's premier social and athletic club. our club offers a warm and inviting atmosphere to its members, families, and guests. we pride ourselves on our sense of community, the…

Recreation & Sports
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
10
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
11
The New England Council Inc

To foster growth of the competitive enterprise system of business in new england; to develop and maintain comprehensive views of new england conditions and problems; to secure recognition of the commonality of economic interest specific to…

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INCJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $31,000 · EducationJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBR…CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOO…THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $10,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (D…NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON D C: $5,500 · OtherNEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SOCIETY …BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $5,000 · OtherBOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION…NEW ENGLAND LEGAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 · Civil RightsIRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC: $5,399 · Arts & CultureWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $5,070 · HealthJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $5,000 · International
Youth Development$40,000Education$31,000Other$30,500Civil Rights$6,000Arts & Culture$5,399Health$5,070International$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LEGAL FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON D C: $5,500 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetIRISH CULTURAL CENTRE INC: $5,399 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $5,070 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Liberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Blackbaud Giving …Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The New England Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New England Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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