· Private foundation
The Outreach Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE COMM FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $3,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TR | $2,000 |
| BRIDGES HOMEWARD | $2,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| JAZZ GALLERY | $2,000 |
| POINT OF PRIDE | $2,000 |
| MTPC | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| BELMONT DAY SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON | $1,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for those funded once.
25 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +45%
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +41%
- BHBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC6× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +14%
Funded once
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%- LDLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +27%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
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.…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
How this is measured
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Jim Collins Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
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) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Outreach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Outreach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project: 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc: 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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