· Private foundation
The Once Here 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.9M
- $250k+1 grant · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $900,000 |
| Harvard Divinity School | $225,000 |
| Shooting Touch | $200,000 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $200,000 |
| Friends of Matenwa Inc | $150,000 |
| Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc | $150,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| Camp Jabberwocky | $125,000 |
| Concord Prison Outreach Inc | $125,000 |
| Calling All Crows | $125,000 |
| Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corporation | $125,000 |
| Lovelane Special Needs Horseback Riding Program | $100,000 |
| United South End Settlements | $100,000 |
| Curious Learning A Global Literacy Project Inc | $75,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +129% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSHOOTING TOUCH INC7× · 2018–2024 · $745k · revenue +7%
MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC7× · 2018–2024 · $675k · revenue +318%- LDLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP7× · 2018–2024 · $575k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- MFMGH Foundationone grant, 2023 · $200k
- CGCONCORDIA GENERAL CONTRACTING PAY'Tone grant, 2018 · $113k
- WFWELLINGTON FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k
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 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.
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…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
William james college strives to be a preeminent college of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. we assume an ongoing social responsibility…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Harmony labs aims to promote and advance research and understanding of how media influence works within society and partners with relevant stakeholders, including research, industry and media practicioners to address knowledge gaps and to…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 33 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds SHOOTING TOUCH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MATENWA INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds CURIOUS LEARNING A GLOBAL LITERACY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD PRISON OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CALLING ALL CROWS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds WELLINGTON MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HOUSE FOR INNER PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Pediatric Brain Tumor Foundation of the United States 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Giving Grousbeck Fazzalari Dated April 20 2011 · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Once Here Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Once Here Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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