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The Schooner Foundation at a glance

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The Schooner Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
129
Grants FY2024still arriving
23
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

International$16MEducation$15MHealth$15MCivil Rights$8.3MEnvironment$5.8MPublic Benefit$5.7MCrime & Legal$2.6MArts & Culture$2.5MOther$0
02FY2024 · 129 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k61 grants · $6.0M
  • $250k+25 grants · $13M
$90,000
Median grant
23
States reached
$254M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NAACP$2,000,000
NAACP$1,500,000
The Nature Conservancy$1,350,000
Trustees of Boston University$1,000,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital$625,000
Here Right Matters Foundation$590,000
State Leadership Project$500,000
Brigham and Women's Hospital$500,000
Trustees of Boston University$500,000
American Ireland Fund$444,485
Turquoise Mountain Foundation$350,000
Partners in Health a Non Profit Corporation$300,000
NAACP$258,000
Roddenberry Foundation$250,000
Syrian American Medical Society Foundation$250,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%One Heart Worldwide: $100k → 11%Unchained at Last: $25k → 10%Here Right Matters Foundation: $590k → 7%Here Right Matters Foundation: $500k → 7%One Heart Worldwide: $100k → 11%Homeless Childrens Foundation: $60k → 12%Here Right Matters Foundation: $150k → 7%Common Market Philadelphia Inc: $8k → 22%FreeForm: $100k → 14%Here Right Matters Foundation: $10k → 7%Freeform: $5k → 14%Familias Triunfadras Inc: $50k → 21%Freeform: $5k → 14%Familias Triunfadoras Inc: $25k → 21%Choose Love Inc: $150k → 17%The Hope for Families Center: $50k → 12%Choose Love Inc: $100k → 17%Choose Love Inc: $90k → 17%Childcare Resources of Indian River Inc: $100k → 12%Choose Love Inc: $75k → 17%Homeless Children's Foundation of Indian River County: $50k → 12%Sunflower of Peace Foundation: $60k → 8%Homeless Children's Foundation of Indian River County: $50k → 12%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $50k → 8%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $50k → 8%Tanzanian Children's Fund: $50k → 8%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $60k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $60k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $60k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $60k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $60k → 12%Gifford Youth Achievement Center: $10k → 12%New England International Donors: $5k → 16%Father's Uplift Inc: $110k → 16%Father's Uplift Inc: $75k → 16%Father's Uplift Inc: $75k → 16%Father's Uplift Inc: $20k → 16%Tennessee Justice for our Neighbors: $5k → 14%Tennessee Justice for our Neighbors: $5k → 14%Tennessee Justice for our Neighbors: $5k → 14%Rian Immigrant Center: $100k → 16%Rian Immigrant Center: $100k → 16%Rian Immigrant Center: $100k → 16%Irish International Immigration Center: $65k → 16%Rian Immigrant Center: $50k → 16%Irish International Immigration Center: $50k → 16%Irish International Immigration Center: $15k → 16%Irish International Immigration Center: $15k → 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
NH
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
SD
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
KY
VA
MD
DE
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 9% of The Schooner Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 37% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 34%.

The Schooner Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$62M · 150 repeat orgs$5.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

150 repeat relationships: 86 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

150
79

Total granted

$62M
$4.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+23%

Still filing today

81%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.9M · revenue +45%
  • SG
    SEED GLOBAL HEALTH
    7× · 2017–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +99%
  • SA
    SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • UO
    U of California - HEAL
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • HF
    Hopewell Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $250k
  • PROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue +69%
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
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
2
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
3
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
4
Global Impact Investing Network Inc

The global impact investing network, inc. is dedicated to increasing the scale and effectiveness of impact investing to solve systemic problems facing people and the planet. impact investments are investments made into companies,…

Philanthropy
5
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
6
National Opinion Research Center

See schedule onorc at the university of chicago conducts research and data science on critical societal issues to guide decision-making and the development of programs and public policy. our experts identify relationships and trends, and…

Social Science
7
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
8
Partnersglobal

Partnersglobal (partners) works through a global network to support local leaders and create partnerships that transform conflict, strengthen democratic institutions, and achieve sustainable development.

International
9
Common Impact Inc

Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…

Unclassified
10
International Biomedical Research Alliance

Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.

Health
11
The Rand Corporation

Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.

Public Benefit
12
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Roddenberry Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

195 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. 195 of the 257 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
190/195
Grantees still filing
132/195
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $7,853,646 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYNAACP: $4,959,500 · OtherNAACPTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,419,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,625,010 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMassachusetts General Hospital: $2,000,021 · OtherBrigham and Woman's Hospital: $1,500,016 · Other+99 more: $15,932,022 · Other+99 moreSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $2,250,021 · EducationSEED GLOBAL HEA…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,150,005 · EducationPresident and F…WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,600,047 · EducationWILLIAM J BRENN…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF C…SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $799,491 · EducationSHINING HOPE FO…THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · EducationSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $350,000 · Education+17 more: $1,543,000 · Education+17 moreMYRIAD USA INC: $2,146,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA IN…FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,285,000 · InternationalFUND FOR GLOB…TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $950,000 · InternationalTURQUOISE MOU…MADRE INC: $850,000 · InternationalMADRE INCPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC: $750,028 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES …THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $500,000 · InternationalTHE CENTER FO…Fortify Inc: $483,000 · InternationalAfrican Food and Peace Foundation Inc: $399,269 · InternationalINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC: $325,000 · International+11 more: $1,561,149 · International+11 moreSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $2,075,021 · HealthSYRIAN AMERIC…THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $1,340,000 · HealthTHE RYR-1 FOU…NYAYA HEALTH: $1,100,024 · HealthNYAYA HEALTHPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,029,645 · HealthPARTNERS IN H…DOTHOUSE HEALTH INC: $670,000 · HealthDOTHOUSE HEAL…LAST MILE HEALTH: $550,000 · HealthLAST MILE HEA…Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $400,000 · HealthBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $304,000 · Health+11 more: $1,424,900 · Health+11 moreHERE RIGHT MATTERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $495,000 · Human ServicesCHOOSE LOVE INC: $415,000 · Human ServicesTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Human ServicesGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $310,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $280,000 · Human ServicesTHE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesONE HEART WORLDWIDE: $200,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC: $160,000 · Human Services+8 more: $473,000 · Human ServicesThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $1,100,024 · Public BenefitSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $1,000,000 · Public BenefitCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $425,039 · Public BenefitISSUE ONE: $250,000 · Public BenefitNEO Philanthropy Inc: $100,000 · Public Benefit+2 more: $75,000 · Public BenefitVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC: $500,000 · Civil RightsPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $125,000 · Civil RightsTEXAS FREEDOM NETWORK EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND: $100,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $97,000 · Civil Rights
Other$39,289,215Education$10,492,564International$9,249,446Health$8,893,590Human Services$4,193,000Public Benefit$2,950,063Civil Rights$2,072,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $7,853,646 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $4,419,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $2,250,021 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,150,005 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $2,146,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $2,075,021 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetWILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC: $1,600,047 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetTHE RYR-1 FOUNDATION: $1,340,000 over 7y, 56% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $1,300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC: $1,285,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetTENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1,279,605 over 6y, 55% of budgetHERE RIGHT MATTERS FOUNDATION INC: $1,250,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetNYAYA HEALTH: $1,100,024 over 5y, 21% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $1,100,024 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,029,645 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSTATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $1,000,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US): $950,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetVET VOICE FOUNDATION INC: $900,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetKARAM FOUNDATION: $896,841 over 7y, 6.8% of budgetMADRE INC: $850,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $799,491 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetDOTHOUSE HEALTH INC: $670,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetLAST MILE HEALTH: $550,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDREAMORG: $515,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE: $500,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC: $500,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTHE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $495,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetFortify Inc: $483,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetOCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC: $450,031 over 4y, 20% of budgetTHE MARSHALL PROJECT INC: $450,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $444,485 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $425,039 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHOOSE LOVE INC: $415,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRehabilitation Institute of Chicago: $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetAfrican Food and Peace Foundation Inc: $399,269 over 2y, 34% of budgetCENTER FOR COMMUNITY CHANGE: $375,028 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSTREET BUSINESS SCHOOL: $350,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC: $325,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetTEACHUNITED: $325,000 over 3y, 7.6% of budgetGIFFORD YOUTH ACHIEVEMENT CENTER INC: $310,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $310,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND HEALTH SERVICES INC: $304,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetEQUALHEALTH INC: $300,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $280,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetISSUE ONE: $250,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPROTECT DEMOCRACY PROJECT: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SEED GLOBAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RYR-1 FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR GLOBAL HUMAN RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds TENNESSEE INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds HERE RIGHT MATTERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NYAYA HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds TURQUOISE MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION (US) ↗
  • Who funds VET VOICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KARAM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MADRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds DOTHOUSE HEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds DREAMORG ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR VICTIMS OF TORTURE ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN OVERSIGHT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE RODDENBERRY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Fortify Inc ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN RESEARCH & CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗

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 IncIndian River Communit…Silicon Valley Commun…The Healing Trust For…Quail Valley Charitie…Combined Jewish Phila…Bernard a Egan Founda…New Venture FundHopewell FundLiberty Mutual Founda…James Ford Bell Found…NEO Philanthropy Inc
Boston Foundation IncMA30.4× affinity27 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Indian River Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Healing Trust Formerly Baptist Healing Hospital Trust · Quail Valley Charities Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bernard a Egan Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · James Ford Bell Foundation · NEO Philanthropy 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 Schooner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Schooner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • White Bird Clinic: 29% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Dothouse Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Bma Tenpoint Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Indian River Land Trust Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Beyond Benign Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Schooner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Schooner Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 257 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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