· Private foundation
The Profesta 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $313k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $216k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VENERINI ACADEMY | $100,607 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $63,879 |
| ST GEORGE GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH | $52,000 |
| ST MICHAELS ORTHODOX CHURCH | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,272 |
| THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE | $25,090 |
| UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND LAW BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CULTURAL CENTER HRISOHORAFITON | $25,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX METROPLOIS OF BOSTON | $22,500 |
| ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $15,000 |
| BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against -49% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k 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
- TATHE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE6× · 2020–2025 · $878k · revenue +65%
- HWHELLENIC WOMEN'S CLUB INC5× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +11%
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- OVORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -100%
- THTHE HELLENIC AMERICAN ACADEMYone grant, 2022 · $5k
- HIHELLENIC INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -1%
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.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.
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…
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…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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)
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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.
Description of organization mission: at suffolk university we are driven by the power of education, inclusion, and engagement to change lives and positively impact communities. committed to excellence, we provide students with experiential…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Orthodox Vocation and Ministry Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC WOMEN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LAWBOSTON ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
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: Cathy and George Sakellaris Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Profesta 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.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- The American College of Greece — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% 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.