· Private foundation
The Tyler Family 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRISON BOOK PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY | $3,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $3,500 |
| CARE | $3,500 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL CORP | $3,000 |
| INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART | $3,000 |
| HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| HOPES DOOR | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON | $1,500 |
| JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER | $1,500 |
| BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL TRUST | $1,000 |
| VOLUNTEER LAWYERS FOR THE ARTS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $800 |
| BOSTON DANCE THEATER | $700 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% 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.
16 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $800 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HAHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY7× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +36%
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +36%- AFARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $28k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- WCWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +33%
- ABARTS & BUSINESS COUNCILone grant, 2023 · $800
RAW ART WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $700 · revenue +41%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…
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.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
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…
The specific purposes for which bafta na is organized is to promote, maintain, improve and advance original and creative work among individuals employed professionally in film and television production and allied industries, to create and…
Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
The boch center operates and maintains two iconic venues and provides performing arts entertainment and cultural educational experiences to the general public.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To engage audiences and artists alike with exceptional performances, inspired writing and superior productions that motivate us to think harder, to feel more deeply, to laugh more fully and to reflect on ourselves and the world in which we…
H.T. Dance Company Inc./Chen Dance Center's programs and activities reflect its ongoing mission to provide moving experiences in Asian-American arts and contemporary dance through artistic creation, arts education, and presentation.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 20 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 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION COALITION ↗
- Who funds PRISON BOOK PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds HOPES DOOR INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DANCE THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE LEF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOB BURNS FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Tyler Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Tyler Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
- Boston Dance Theater: 4% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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