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The Peabody Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $386k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $520k
- $250k+2 grants · $596k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $339,128 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $256,418 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $125,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC | $100,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $75,000 |
| COTTING SCHOOL FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN | $70,000 |
| PIERS PARK SAILING CENTER | $50,000 |
| UMASS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $49,750 |
| OLIN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING | $42,182 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $40,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC | $35,000 |
| WILLIE ROSS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF | $30,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
| WAYPOINT ADVENTURE | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $93k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
31 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +69%
- MVMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC9× · 2017–2025 · $441k · revenue +38%
Piers Park Sailing Center Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +407%
Funded once
- JDJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -19%
- SMSMILE MASS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +127%
- AVAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +459%
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.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…
Audio Journal, Incorporated's mission in Central Massachusetts is to connect individuals who are blind, visually impaired or have an inability to access printed material, to their communities through broadcasting of local news, information…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…
Disability rights center - new hampshire protects, advances, and strengthens the legal rights and advocacy interests of all people with disabilities.
Mission empowering people with disabilities to live meaningful, self-directed lives through innovative programs that foster independence, resilience, and community. vision building on our legacy of advocacy, innovation and service, we seek…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe 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 50 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds Piers Park Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ADVENTURE INC ↗
- Who funds WILLIE ROSS SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF INC ↗
- Who funds Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOVELANE SPECIAL NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
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: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Priscilla Alden Uwo · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Christopher Reeve Foundation
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 Peabody Foundation Inc 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
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press 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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