· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WAYPOINT ADVENTURE | $30,000 |
| CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $30,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $3.0M · revenue +91%
- 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 -12%
- SMSMILE MASS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +127%
- AVAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +459%
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.
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…
How this is measured
22 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. 22 of the 35 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 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 NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING 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 NEADS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peabody Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peabody Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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