· Private foundation
The William B and Anngenette G Tyler Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREAMCATCHER INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| KIJABE CHILDREN'S EDUCATION FUND | $10,000 |
| Plugged In Band Program | $7,500 |
| Manna Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Community of Hope(for Kindness Connection) | $5,000 |
| COACHING4CHANGE | $5,000 |
| United Way of NC | $5,000 |
| Veterans Ride for Free | $5,000 |
| Girls on the Run Vermont | $2,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of The William B and Anngenette G Tyler Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 74% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- KCKIJABE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FUND INC3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +145%
- BUBREAKTIME UNITED INC3× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +770%
- DIDREAMCATCHER INITIATIVE INC3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +28%
MORE THAN WORDS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +66%- COCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
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.
To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Waltham partnership for youth collaborates with youth, families, and partner organizations to address long-standing systemic inequities while building a community of belonging and opportunity for waltham youth. we envision a world where…
Educational divide reform, inc. advances the mission to promote global citizenship education, social inclusion and community development through youth education.
Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
By creating supportive relationships between students and volunteer mentors, boston partners in education ensures a more equitable city where every bps student is equipped with the skills, opportunity, and confidence to succeed in the…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
Think big for kids is breaking the cycle of poverty by providing middle and high school students with career opportunities, mentorship, and job readiness training to excel in today's workforce.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 KIJABE CHILDREN'S EDUCATIONAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMCATCHER INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds PLUGGED IN BAND PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MANNA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GLADIOLUS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS RIDE FOR FREE ↗
- Who funds BEAR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS ON THE RUN OF VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS FOR WESTERLY'S CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds GIFTS TO GIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE MAKAYLA FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Wagner Foundation · The Hyams Foundation Inc · The Clowes Fund Incorporated · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 William B and Anngenette G Tyler Family 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.
- Dreamcatcher Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% 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.
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