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Massachusetts · Nonprofit
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR (Massachusetts) is funded by 36 grantmakers whose IRS filings report $23,556,625 in grants to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($7,327,118). 26 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 3,816 health nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,816 health nonprofits $10M–$100M, FY2018
$71k from 2 funders in 2025, up from $496k and 4 in 2017.
24 of 36 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 75% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 36 funders by total. Association, not causation.
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 31% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 29% · 2019 54% · 2020 69% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 31% · 2024 29% · 2025 79% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration.
48% of FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 72% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year.
FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR is locally rooted: 56% of its grant income comes from Massachusetts funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 36 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
94% of spending goes to programs.
63%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Operates in 17 states
Part of a family of 15 related entities
Every figure is read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML — this organization’s own return for FY2018 (financials across 2018–2018), and the filings of 36funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. view filing