· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| CULTURAL CENTER HRISOHORAFITON | $25,000 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND LAW BOSTON | $25,000 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX METROPLOIS OF BOSTON | $22,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC | $20,000 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $15,000 |
| BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% of its 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against -49% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 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 DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ORTHODOX VOCATION AND MINISTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALPHA OMEGA COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ACADEMY ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Profesta Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Profesta Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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