· Public charity
Trustees of Boston College
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 pursuit of a just society through its own accomplishments, the work of its faculty and staff, and the…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 47 grants below total $6,706,845 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $302,752,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $296,045,581 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $450k
- $50k–250k21 grants · $2.5M
- $250k+6 grants · $3.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TULANE UNIVERSITY | $878,054 |
| RTI INTERNATIONAL RTI HEALTH SOLUTIONS | $748,687 |
| PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE | $733,704 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON | $683,165 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $371,374 |
| TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $275,790 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $241,517 |
| URBAN INSTITUTE | $220,771 |
| THE AEROSPACE CORPORATION | $188,188 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY | $184,316 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $160,410 |
| MATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH INC | $157,661 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA | $152,646 |
| EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $152,627 |
| TRUSTEES OF PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $137,728 |
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 (FY17–25, $699k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 39 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M 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
- FFFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston3× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +80%
- AFACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +115%
- GFGLORIOUS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $375k · revenue +58% · 63% of their budget
Funded once
- COCITY OF BOSTONone grant, 2019 · $106k
- NSNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -10%
- JCJESUIT CONFERENCE INCone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Education and Research
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
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 university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Rural Water Ventures 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 56 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 65 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 Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds Research Triangle Institute ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds GLORIOUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds The Aerospace Corporation ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TURKANA INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTON MARINE INC ↗
- Who funds ALLSTON VILLAGE MAIN STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Claremont Graduate University ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
- Who funds HEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL 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: President and Fellows of Harvard College · Boston Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Fidelity Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 Trustees of Boston College 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.
- Brighton Marine Inc — 87% of income from government
- Education Development Center Inc — 65% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Mattapan Community Health Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Allston Village Main Streets Inc — 10% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% 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.