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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.

$57k
Granted FY2023
27
Grants FY2023
12
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2023.

Arts & Culture$119kPhilanthropy$82kEducation$72kYouth Development$52kHealth$39kEnvironment$16kPublic Benefit$13kCivil Rights$7kOther$0
02FY2023 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALL CHARITIES FOUNDATION$5,000
BLUECOATS OF BARNSTABLE$5,000
RANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC$5,000
UNIVERSITY SCHOOL$5,000
CAPE COD ACADEMY$5,000
OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC$2,600
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL$2,189
KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION$2,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$2,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$2,000
CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUM INC$2,000
THE LIFEFLIGHT FOUNDATION$1,500
MERCY SHIPS$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN$1,000
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $2k → 14%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $2k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 11%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%KEYS CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 13%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CA
MO
KY
VA
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 37% of The Page Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Page Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 29 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
19

Total granted

$284k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+27%

Still filing today

90%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • US
    UNIVERSITY SCHOOL
    6× · 2017–2023 · $31k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    CAPE COD ACADEMY
    6× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +35%
  • KC
    KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $16k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -31%
  • 1I
    1065 INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -37%
  • MN
    Maine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +217%
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
United States Naval Institute

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.

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2
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
3
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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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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8
The Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc

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…

Philanthropy
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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10
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
11
Western New England University

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…

Education
12
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 57 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
34/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CE…THE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $26,100 · Arts & CultureTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATIO…HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND G…CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE COD MARITIME MUSE…+3 more: $4,000 · Arts & CultureBLUECOATS OF BARNSTABLE: $32,000 · OtherBLUECOATS OF BARNSTABLECAPE COD ACADEMY: $30,000 · OtherCAPE COD ACADEMYALL CHARITIES FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $6,000 · OtherFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGR…ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $5,000 · OtherMaine Narrow Gauge Railroad and Industrial Heritage Trust: $5,000 · OtherTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $4,000 · Other+22 more: $25,289 · Other+22 moreUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $31,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY SCHOOLHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $18,000 · EducationHILLSDALE COLLEGERANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $9,000 · EducationRANSOM EVERGLADES SCH…Island Institute: $7,000 · EducationIsland Institute1065 INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 · Education1065 INSTITUTE INCHebron Academy Incorporated: $5,000 · EducationHebron Academy Incorp…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL…OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $76,200 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY…HOPEWELL: $16,000 · HealthHOPEWELLTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 · HealthTHE SHRIN…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $4,000 · HealthJOSLIN DI…Rush University Medical Center: $4,000 · HealthRush Univ…LifeFlight Foundation: $3,500 · HealthLifeFligh…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 · HealthST JUDE C…+2 more: $200 · HealthKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $16,100 · Human ServicesHomeworthy: $3,100 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $12,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Institute: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Arts & Culture$81,600Other$112,289Education$80,000Philanthropy$76,200Health$33,700Human Services$21,200Public Benefit$13,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $76,200 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY SCHOOL: $31,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD ACADEMY: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROSEWELL FOUNDATION INC: $26,100 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE: $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $16,100 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHOPEWELL: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRANSOM EVERGLADES SCHOOL INC: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFEDERATION FOR AMERICAN IMMIGRATION REFORM: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget1065 INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHebron Academy Incorporated: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTWO FOUNDATION INC TWO CAFE & BOUTIQUE: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRush University Medical Center: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLifeFlight Foundation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHomeworthy: $3,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Ships International: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILHELM REICH INFANT TRUST CORP: $2,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $1,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITYSERVE INTERNATIONAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN RESERVE LAND CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTURAL CENTER OF CAPE COD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAVE TWIN BROOKS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetLeadership Institute: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBONNELL COVE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYARMOUTH POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Donald C McGraw Found…The Lenox FoundationCape Cod Foundation I…Donors Trust IncEastern Bank Foundati…Holbrook R & Sarah M …Bilezikian Family Fou…Horizon Foundation IncMutual Bancorp Founda…Maine Community Found…Fidelity FoundationBoston Foundation Inc
Donald C McGraw Foundation IncFL17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Page Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Page Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Page Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Page Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 57 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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