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Wagner 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.

$13M
Granted FY2024still arriving
132
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$1.0M
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, FY2020 to 2024.

International$26MArts & Culture$11MHealth$7.8MEmployment$5.0MEducation$3.7MPhilanthropy$2.4MCommunity Improvement$2.2MYouth Development$2.0MOther$0
02FY2024 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k57 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $5.0M
  • $250k+12 grants · $6.3M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$161M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YEAR UP INC$1,000,000
MASS DESIGN GROUP$1,000,000
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART$700,000
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$650,000
ROOT CAPITAL INC$450,000
INTEGRATE HEALTH INC$400,000
MUSO INC$400,000
PIVOTWORKS INC$400,000
UNITED STATES ARTISTS INC$392,722
SEED GLOBAL HEALTH INC$350,000
HEALTH INITIATIVE INC$300,000
FUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC$250,000
WOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC$200,000
BUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL$200,000
HOMESTART INC$200,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 12%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE: $175k → 10%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 17%PARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE: $170k → 10%NEW HOPE INC: $10k → 11%FRIENDS OF HAMPSHIRE COUNTY HOMELESS INDIVIDUALS: $5k → 12%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 17%NEW HOPE INC: $10k → 11%NEW HOPE INC: $10k → 11%UPTOGETHER: $100k → 10%UPTOGETHER: $100k → 10%MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC: $10k → 11%UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SOUTHERN MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%EAST END HOUSE: $5k → 8%EAST END HOUSE INC: $5k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $25k → 16%ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $150k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $15k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $150k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $20k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $15k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $15k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $10k → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE: $25k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $100k → 8%ON THE RISE: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE INC: $10k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 8%MARGARET FULLER-NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $5k → 8%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC: $5k → 8%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 8%FINEX HOUSE INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%FINEX HOUSE: $10k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $140k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $100k → 16%URBANO PROJECT INC: $10k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $10k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $10k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS: $10k → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $25k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $10k → 16%NETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC: $20k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC: $10k → 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

VT
WA
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
MO
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$59M · 119 repeat orgs$3.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

119 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
53

Total granted

$59M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+21%

Still filing today

91%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $11M · revenue +33%
  • THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.4M · revenue +66%
  • RC
    ROOT CAPITAL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $4.0M · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +53%
  • C
    CAREMESSAGE
    one grant, 2021 · $200k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
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
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
5
Hubweek Inc

Hubweek, inc. is an organization dedicated to igniting and unleashing the potential of boston. we guide the doers, dreamers, and makers that define who we are as a city and what our future will be. our purpose is to help build a better…

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6
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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7
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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11
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Build Health International 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

194 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 194 of the 217 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
33
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/194
Grantees still filing
128/194
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $11,370,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT …BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,500,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATI…Integrate Health Inc: $1,525,000 · HealthIntegrate Health IncTHE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $825,000 · Health+9 more: $775,000 · HealthMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $4,035,000 · InternationalMASS DESIGN GROUP L…ROOT CAPITAL INC: $4,024,000 · InternationalROOT CAPITAL INCPIVOT WORKS INC: $1,525,000 · InternationalPIVOT WORKS INCMUSO INC: $725,000 · InternationalMUSO INCVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $400,000 · International+7 more: $765,000 · International+7 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,370,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF C…BOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $550,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $450,000 · Arts & CultureISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $400,000 · Arts & CultureUnited States Artists Inc: $392,722 · Arts & CultureNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $391,000 · Arts & Culture+34 more: $2,897,000 · Arts & Culture+34 moreYEAR UP INC: $4,525,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $1,140,000 · EducationSEED GLOBAL H…REGIS COLLEGE: $880,000 · EducationREGIS COLLEGEPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $560,000 · EducationPresident and…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 · Education+10 more: $620,000 · Education+10 moreFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $1,575,000 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCH…THE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC: $1,380,000 · OtherTHE FULL FRAME INITIA…MORE THAN WORDS INC: $520,000 · OtherHomeStart Inc: $610,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,100,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF…WOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $1,300,000 · OtherWOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALT…+76 more: $5,909,250 · Other+76 moreBoston Foundation Inc: $1,280,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $780,000 · PhilanthropyBUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $400,000 · PhilanthropyHAITIAN GLOBAL HEALTH ALLIANCE: $170,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · Philanthropy+10 more: $220,180 · PhilanthropyPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $585,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $315,000 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONAL: $200,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesNETWORK OF ENGAGED INTERNATIONAL DONORS GLOBAL INC: $70,000 · Human Services+16 more: $375,000 · Human Services
Health$17,995,000International$11,474,000Arts & Culture$10,450,722Education$8,050,000Other$12,394,250Philanthropy$2,970,180Human Services$2,085,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $11,370,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,370,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $4,525,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMASS DESIGN GROUP LTD: $4,035,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetROOT CAPITAL INC: $4,024,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $3,500,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOT WORKS INC: $1,525,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetIntegrate Health Inc: $1,525,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetTHE FULL FRAME INITIATIVE INC: $1,380,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetWOMEN IN GLOBAL HEALTH INC: $1,300,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $1,280,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSEED GLOBAL HEALTH: $1,140,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $880,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEALTH INITIATIVE INC: $825,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $780,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetMUSO INC: $725,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $610,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN AGRICULTURE INC: $585,000 over 4y, 28% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $560,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC ART TRIENNIAL INC: $550,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $520,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $450,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVILLAGE HEALTH WORKS: $400,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetBUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $400,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUnited States Artists Inc: $392,722 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetNEW ORLEANS MUSEUM OF ART: $391,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVIA ART FUND INC: $340,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $340,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $315,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetGLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEW CURATORS INC: $300,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetLOCAL ENTERPRISE ASSISTANCE FUND: $300,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBOSTON CYCLISTS UNION INC: $252,250 over 4y, 16% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $250,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPRINTED MATTER INC: $233,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $225,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC: $225,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetBOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $218,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $210,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetFII - NATIONAL: $200,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCAREMESSAGE: $200,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $200,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Boston Foundation IncBarr FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Combined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Cambridge Community F…The Klarman Family Fo…Cambridge Savings Cha…Rockland Trust Charit…Health Resources in A…Liberty Mutual Founda…
Boston Foundation IncMA75.8× affinity72 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Community Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation 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 Wagner Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wagner Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Local Enterprise Assistance Fund: 100% of income from government
  • Finex House Inc: 89% of income from government
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Alianza Dv Services Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Harborcov Inc: 76% of income from government
  • New Hope Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Safe Passage Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Family and Community Resources Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Association of Haitian Women Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Making Opportunity Count Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Masscreative Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • New England Farm Workers Council Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Urbano Project Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Cambridge Historical Society: 11% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
  • Root Capital Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Baltimore Museum of Art: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • East End House Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Urban Guild Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Art Review Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Think Outside the Vox: 2% of income from government
  • Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Louison House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jean Appolon Expressions Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bams Fest Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
35get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
13rely 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 217 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home