· Private foundation
The New England Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $81,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER | $30,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER | $30,000 |
| TENACITY | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| YALE SCH OF MGMT | $25,000 |
| BIDWELL HOUSE MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| MONTEREY MEETING HOUSE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| YALE ALUMNI FUND | $25,000 |
| ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BRYN MAWR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COLLEGE ATHLETIC A | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 10 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2020–2025 · $271k · revenue +27%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +62%- TRTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL5× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $715k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $105k
- NYNew York Historical Societyone grant, 2020 · $76k · revenue +5%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
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…
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…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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.…
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…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 56 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.
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.
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BIDWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Westport Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The New England Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The New England Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Historical Society: 22% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc: 18% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc: 15% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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