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· Private foundation

Ttee Uw of Frank M Noonan

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$556k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$158k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$1.7MHealth$1.4MCrime & Legal$240kEmployment$160k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$80,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Northeastern University$158,275
THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP$80,000
Jewish Vocational Service Inc$80,000
CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION$80,000
Trustees of Boston University$79,972
BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES$78,222
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $78k → 7%TRIANGLE INC - THE MEDICAL: $80k → 8%Northeastern University: $158k → 16%BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $66k → 17%Emory University: $80k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $77k → 7%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $160k → 8%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $80k → 16%BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER: $53k → 17%MAY INSTITUTE INC: $80k → 7%TRIANGLE INC - THE MEDICAL: $80k → 8%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $80k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $155k → 8%Northeastern University: $80k → 16%TRIANGLE INC - THE MEDICAL: $80k → 8%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $80k → 16%TUFTS UNIVERSITY: $71k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $160k → 16%University of Massachusetts Foundation: $80k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $160k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $80k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS: $80k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $160k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $160k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: $80k → 16%HEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION: $30k → 16%Trustees of Boston University: $160k → 16%THE GENERAL HOSPITAL CORP: $80k → 16%Trustees of Boston University: $80k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL: $80k → 16%Jewish Vocational Service Inc: $80k → 16%Jewish Vocational Service Inc: $80k → 16%FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH: $80k → 16%FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH: $80k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.1M · 12 repeat orgs$510k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
5

Total granted

$3.1M
$430k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+69%

Still filing today

67%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEmploymentOther

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

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $480k · revenue +38%
  • Trustees of Tufts College
    4× · 2020–2023 · $467k · revenue +39%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $240k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL
    one grant, 2017 · $160k
  • TM
    THE MAY INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $80k · revenue +69%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
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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4
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
5
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
6
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
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
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
9
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
10
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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11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
University of Massachusetts Global

The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Boston University and the most unlike its peers is Health Resources in Action 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS — $479,876 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTSTRIANGLE INC - THE MEDICAL — $240,000 · OtherTRIANGLE INC - THE MEDICALTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $239,944 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL — $160,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERALIndividual grant recipient — $160,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITH — $160,000 · OtherFEDERATION FOR CHILDREN WITHMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $80,000 · Other+1 more — $30,000 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College — $466,836 · EducationTrustees of Tufts CollegeNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $238,275 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $154,924 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $79,995 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUN…Emory University — $79,972 · EducationEmory UniversityBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $479,975 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORP…Children's Hospital Corporation — $160,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corpor…BETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $118,942 · HealthBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTERTHE MAY INSTITUTE INC — $80,000 · HealthTHE MAY INSTITUTE INCJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $160,000 · Employment
Other$1,549,820Education$1,020,002Health$838,917Employment$160,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $479,975 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $466,836 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $239,944 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $238,275 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $160,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $160,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $154,924 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL MEDICAL CENTER — $118,942 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAY INSTITUTE INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $79,995 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmory University — $79,972 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH RESOURCES IN ACTION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Ttee Uw of Frank M Noonan 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get 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 · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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