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Trustees of the Howard Funds 1993 Cx2290 at a glance

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Trustees of the Howard Funds 1993 Cx2290

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$74k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$18k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$221kReligion$20kScience & Tech$11kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$750Human Services$725
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$919k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Howard Elementary School$17,610
West Bridgewater JrSr High School$13,590
University of South Carolina$5,000
GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$5,000
University of New Hampshire$5,000
Boston College$5,000
Assumption College$5,000
Merrimack College$5,000
First Church$3,527
University of Mass - Boston$3,000
Worcester Polytechnical Institute$3,000
OLD BRIDGEWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,150
Ohio State University$1,000
FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Boston College: $5k → 7%Howard Elementary School: $18k → 8%Merrimack College: $5k → 10%Assumption College: $5k → 11%University Of Mass - Amherst: $7k → 12%Northeastern University: $8k → 16%University of South Carolina: $5k → 16%Florida Institute of Technology: $3k → 10%University Of Conn: $3k → 11%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $5k → 13%OBERLIN COLLEGE FBO MARGARET ALLEN: $4k → 13%University of New Hampshire: $5k → 9%Boston College: $3k → 7%West Bridgewater JrSr High School: $14k → 8%Worcester Polytechnical Institute: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS - DARTMOUTH FBO MAGGIE MCCAFFERTY: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS - AMHERST FBO NICOLE BERGLUND: $3k → 12%Simmons University: $4k → 16%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 13%OBERLIN COLLEGE FBO MARGARET ALLEN: $3k → 13%Boston College: $3k → 7%West Bridgewater JrSr High School: $14k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL INSTITUTE FBO CASEY WILLIS: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS - DARTMOUTH FBO MAGGIE MCCAFFERTY: $3k → 11%University Of Mass - Amherst: $3k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FBO LLIAM NORTON: $3k → 16%GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 13%West Bridgewater JrSr High School: $7k → 8%Worcester Polytechnical Institute: $3k → 11%University of Mass - Dartmouth: $3k → 11%Simmons University: $3k → 16%First Church: $5k → 8%WORCESTER POLYTECHNICAL INSTITUTE FBO CASEY WILLIS: $3k → 11%University of Mass - Dartmouth: $3k → 11%SIMMONS COLLEGE FBO EMMA RADINSKI: $3k → 16%First Church: $4k → 8%Worcester Polytechnical Institute: $3k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY FBO REBECCA RAMOS: $3k → 16%First Church: $4k → 8%Worcester Polytechnical Institute: $3k → 11%Simmons University: $3k → 16%First Church: $4k → 8%Northeastern University: $3k → 16%University of Mass - Boston: $4k → 16%University of Mass - Boston: $3k → 16%University of Mass - Boston: $3k → 16%University of Mass - Boston: $3k → 16%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY FBO COLLEEN DALY: $3k → 8%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
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
CT
RI
VA
SC
GA
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$152k · 14 repeat orgs$104k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
39

Total granted

$152k
$65k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+12%

Still filing today

43%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $20k · revenue +33%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $11k · revenue +37%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2022–2023 · $11k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • OC
    OBERLIN COLLEGE FBO MARGARET ALLEN
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASS - DARTMOUTH FBO MAGGIE MCCAFFERTY
    one grant, 2021 · $7k
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF WB
    one grant, 2021 · $4k
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
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
2
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
3
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
4
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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5
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
6
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
7
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
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
10
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Old Bridgewater Historical Society. 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

16 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. 16 of the 59 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

West Bridgewater JrSr High School: $34,710 · OtherWest Bridgewater JrSr High SchoolWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $20,000 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEHoward Elementary School: $17,610 · OtherHoward Elementary SchoolFirst Church: $15,884 · OtherFirst ChurchUniversity of Mass - Boston: $13,000 · OtherUniversity of Mass - BostonGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $11,000 · OtherGEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYUniversity Of Mass - Amherst: $10,200 · OtherOBERLIN COLLEGE FBO MARGARET ALLEN: $7,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS - DARTMOUTH FBO MAGGIE MCCAFFERTY: $7,000 · OtherUniversity of Mass - Dartmouth: $6,900 · Other+38 more: $62,547 · Other+38 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $11,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON CO…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,700 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSI…SIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITYMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGEASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITYFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 · EducationFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF …+5 more: $4,800 · Education+5 more
Other$205,851Education$49,500

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 budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $20,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $10,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOLD BRIDGEWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,025 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPRATT INSTITUTE: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSavannah College of Art and DesignInc: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLESLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEGION AUXILIARY NATIONAL HEADQUARTERS: $725 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New England: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE: $500 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.

  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FLORIDA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD BRIDGEWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PRATT INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Savannah College of Art and DesignInc ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LESLEY UNIVERSITY ↗

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 the Howard Funds 1993 Cx2290 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trustees of the Howard Funds 1993 Cx2290. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Florida Institute of Technology Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Assumption University: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 0% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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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.

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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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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