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The Red Elm Tree 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.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MAnimals$1.4MEnvironment$1.1MHealth$561kCivil Rights$101kCrime & Legal$85kCommunity Improvement$76kEducation$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC$27,500
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$16,250
FINE ARTS WORK CENTER$11,000
909 WBUR$10,500
LATIN AMERICA MUSIC FESTIVAL$5,000
FOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL$5,000
ELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY$5,000
PASSIM$5,000
MASS AUDUBON$5,000
PALAVER STRINGS$3,000
RIFFRAFF ARTS COLLECTIVE$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
HUMAN RIGHTS FIRST$1,000
TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS$500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL: $1k → 8%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDERN: $1k → 16%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
NY
MA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
WV
MD
TN
DC
TX
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.6M · 30 repeat orgs$663k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
44

Total granted

$6.6M
$654k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+24%

Still filing today

73%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthAnimalsEducationEnvironmentHuman 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

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    6× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +115%
  • TT
    THE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST
    4× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +154% · 38% of their budget
  • THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $719k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • AA
    ANGELL ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • TS
    THE SEEING EYE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +12%
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
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc

Seeks to expand the boundaries of theater, producing, performing and presenting works of literary, experimental and educational value. provide a home for outstanding artists, a training ground for young artists (including an extensive…

Arts & Culture
2
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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3
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc

Mass moca's mission is to foster and present visual and performing arts and related educational programs for the benefit of the public.

Education
4
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
5
Boston Baroque Inc

The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.

Arts & Culture
6
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
9
Wamc

Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…

Arts & Culture
10
New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated

Nefa invests in artists and communities and fosters equitable access to the arts, enriching the cultural landscape in new england and the nation.

Arts & Culture
11
Fitchburg Art Museum

The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…

Arts & Culture
12
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Samuel S Fleisher Art Memorial Inc; the most unlike its peers is Truro Historical Societyinc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 of the 79 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
41/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $1,015,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKSTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $719,262 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INCDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $559,250 · Arts & CultureDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK+20 more: $411,070 · Arts & Culture+20 moreMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,111,175 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCI…+4 more: $71,246 · Animals+4 moreTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: $1,025,500 · EnvironmentTHE TRURO CONSER…+2 more: $23,750 · EnvironmentIndividual grant recipient: $226,000 · OtherIndividual grant …909 WBUR: $145,500 · Other909 WBURIndividual grant recipient: $100,400 · OtherIndividual grant …ANGELL ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $100,000 · OtherANGELL ANIMAL MED…CORNELL PRISON EDUCATION PROGRAM: $85,000 · OtherCORNELL PRISON ED…MASS AUDUBON: $79,000 · OtherMASS AUDUBONRURAL LAND FOUNDATION: $75,000 · OtherRURAL LAND FOUNDA…PASSIM: $55,500 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $75,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND I…Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $50,000 · Other+25 more: $104,600 · Other+25 moreBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $581,162 · EducationBERKLEE CO…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 · EducationNORTHEASTE…+2 more: $15,000 · EducationMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $400,000 · HealthMAGICAL MOON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · HealthHEALTH LEADS INC: $15,000 · Health+3 more: $7,500 · HealthTHE SEEING EYE INC: $100,000 · Human Services+2 more: $2,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$2,704,582Animals$1,182,421Environment$1,049,250Other$1,096,000Education$666,162Health$447,500Human Services$102,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,111,175 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRURO CONSERVATION TRUST: $1,025,500 over 4y, 38% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSICWORKS: $1,015,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $719,262 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $581,162 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $559,250 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetMOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEEING EYE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC: $87,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT DOCUMENTARY INC: $77,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $75,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $70,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetACOUSTIC TRADITIONS LTD: $40,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetELIOT FISK GUITAR ACADEMY INC: $35,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $34,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRETIRED RACEHORSE PROJECT LTD: $26,221 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE RECORD COMPANY INC: $26,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetMAGICAL MOON FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetWILD CANID SURVIVAL AND RESEARCH CENTER INC DBA ENDANGERED WOLF CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAUCTION RESCUES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $18,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH LEADS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPETS AND PEOPLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJLSC EDUCATIONAL TOUR BUS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetREACHIRSCHSPRUNGS INC: $6,500 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetFOLK ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL: $6,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALMA BOSTON INC: $5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOcean River Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $2,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMDRC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIGHT QUESTION INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRURO FIRE ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTRURO HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEXINGTON ARTS AND CRAFTS SOCIETY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PERFORMANCE ZONE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSwim Across America Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYOMET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR ARTS IN NATICK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $840 over 2y, 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.

Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationSeamens Long Point Ch…Community Foundation …Boyle FoundationGramercy Park Foundat…Mutual Bancorp Founda…Cape Cod Foundation I…The Klarman Family Fo…Ibm International Fou…The Ayco Charitable F…The Pfizer Foundation…
Boston Foundation IncMA20.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Seamens Long Point Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boyle Foundation · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Red Elm Tree Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Red Elm Tree Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • Eliot Fisk Guitar Academy Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Payomet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Center for Arts in Natick Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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