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The Page Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALL CHARITIES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAPE COD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BLUECOATS OF BARNSTABLE | $5,000 |
| RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC | $2,600 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL | $2,189 |
| CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUM INC | $2,000 |
| KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION | $2,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| THE LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CITY SERVE INTERNATIONAL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 85% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 37% of The Page Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +47% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +51%
- CCCAPE COD ACADEMY6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +35%
- KCKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- MNMaine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trustgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +217%
ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INCone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -31%- 1I1065 INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -37%
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.
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 Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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.
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.
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…
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.…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and 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…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rosewell Foundation Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 57 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 OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds FEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hebron Academy Incorporated ↗
- Who funds Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC ↗
- Who funds 1065 INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Rush University Medical Center ↗
- Who funds TWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds Homeworthy ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS ↗
- Who funds Disabled American Veterans ↗
- Who funds WILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND AMENDMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE 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: Donald C McGraw Foundation Inc · The Lenox Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Donors Trust Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Holbrook R & Sarah M Davis Foundation Inc · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Horizon Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc
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 Page 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.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cape Cod Academy — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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