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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…

$303M
Granted FY2025still arriving
47
Grants FY2025still arriving
23
States reached
$878k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Education$2.3MRecreation & Sports$2.3MScience & Tech$1.6MHealth$1.1MInternational$720kHuman Services$699kReligion$528kPublic Benefit$465kOther$0
02FY2025 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $6,706,845, the rows itemized in this filing. The $302,752,426 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $296,045,581 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $450k
  • $50k–250k21 grants · $2.5M
  • $250k+6 grants · $3.7M
$63,364
Median grant
23
States reached
$7.7B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY FUND: $75k → 7%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $24k → 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

WA
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
MD
TN
NC
DC
LA
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.1M · 10 repeat orgs$6.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +83% since the first grant, against -10% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$3.1M
$774k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%
-10%

Still filing today

70%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.3M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationCommunity ImprovementScience & TechHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FF
    Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston
    3× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +80%
  • AF
    ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $675k · revenue +115%
  • GF
    GLORIOUS FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $375k · revenue +58% · 63% of their budget

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2019 · $106k
  • JM
    JACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -49%
  • BM
    BRIGHTON MARINE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +2%
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
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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2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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
3
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
Northeastern University
Education
6
The George Washington University

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…

Education
7
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…

Education
8
Lehigh University

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…

Education
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

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)

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11
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University; 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.
04the grantee network

39 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. 39 of the 65 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
11/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $683,165 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: $379,155 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADOCITY OF NEWTON: $300,000 · OtherCITY OF NEWTONTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $241,517 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYUS CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN PROVINCE SOCIETY OF JESUS: $194,000 · OtherMATHEMATICA POLICY RESEARCH INC: $157,661 · OtherBOARD OF REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA: $152,646 · OtherEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $152,627 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $220,771 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUTE+26 more: $1,387,442 · Other+26 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $878,054 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TUL…President and Fellows of Harvard College: $733,704 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harv…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275,790 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF…The Trustees of Princeton University: $137,728 · EducationSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $121,223 · EducationJACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCIL INC: $100,000 · EducationNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Education+9 more: $401,728 · Education+9 moreFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston: $1,100,000 · Community ImprovementFund for Parks …BROWN UNIVERSITY: $184,316 · Community ImprovementBROWN UNIVERSIT…ALLSTON VILLAGE MAIN STREETS INC: $96,000 · Community ImprovementALLSTON VILLAGE…+1 more: $44,825 · Community ImprovementResearch Triangle Institute: $748,687 · Science & TechResearch T…The Aerospace Corporation: $188,188 · Science & TechThe Aerosp…+1 more: $14,177 · Science & TechACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $675,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $24,115 · Human ServicesGLORIOUS FOUNDATION INC: $375,271 · PhilanthropyBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $25,000 · PhilanthropyNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $160,410 · HealthBRIGHTON MARINE INC: $100,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $66,834 · Health
Other$3,868,984Education$2,748,227Community Improvement$1,425,141Science & Tech$951,052Human Services$699,115Philanthropy$400,271Health$327,244

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston: $1,100,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $878,054 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetResearch Triangle Institute: $748,687 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $733,704 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $675,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGLORIOUS FOUNDATION INC: $375,271 over 4y, 63% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $275,790 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $241,517 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Aerospace Corporation: $188,188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $184,316 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $160,410 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $152,627 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $137,728 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $121,223 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCIL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBRIGHTON MARINE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWTON SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetALLSTON VILLAGE MAIN STREETS INC: $96,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetCornell University: $88,283 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClaremont Graduate University: $76,230 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $73,644 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $66,834 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $63,364 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTLAND ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL INC: $62,386 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEL EDUCATION INC: $57,331 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $44,825 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $44,224 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRURAL WATER VENTURES INC: $30,200 over 1y, 60% of budgetYale University: $26,087 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $24,999 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $24,497 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITIES FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY INC: $14,177 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $11,044 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $5,560 over 1y, 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.

President and Fellows…Boston Foundation IncChildren's Hospital C…Mass General Brigham …Fidelity FoundationLiberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Charitable Tru…Highland Street Conne…The Heising-Simons Fo…Combined Jewish Phila…
President and Fellows of Harvard CollegeMA29.7× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Trustees of Boston College funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of Boston College. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 65 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 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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