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The Boston Foundation

EIN 04-2104021Community Development Massachusetts Large

Historical collection: May 2019 · Rating details mostly from 2017. Source & context

The mission

What this organization describes

Innovation. Information. Impact.

Established in 1915, The Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone. We fulfill this mission in three principal ways: making grants to nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community's critical challenges; working in partnership with donors and other funders to achieve high-impact philanthropy; serving as a civic hub and center of information, where ideas are shared, levers for change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed. The Foundation and its donors make more than $80 million in grants every year.

Mission and tagline reproduced from the source record.

Historical scorecard

Three perspectives. One record.

96.35Overall score
out of 100

96.75Financial score
out of 100

96.00Accountability & transparency
out of 100

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Financial context

Revenue, expenses, and composition

Total revenue · USD$205,819,144

Total expenses · USD$157,948,534

Program expenses

$140,890,092.33 recorded amount

89.2%

Fundraising expenses

$2,369,228.01 recorded amount

1.5%

Administrative expenses

$14,531,265.13 recorded amount

9.2%

Fundraising efficiency: $0.01 spent per $1 raised in donations, as defined in the source.

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Historical leadership record

The leadership information supplied

Recorded leader: Paul S. Grogan
Recorded compensation: $642,391.00
Recorded compensation percentage: 0.40%

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Inspect all 23 original source fields

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All 23 original fields for The Boston Foundation
Source field	Original source value
`ascore` Accountability & transparency score	96.0
`category` Category	Community Development
`description` Mission & description	Established in 1915, The Boston Foundation devotes its resources to building and sustaining a vital, prosperous city and region, where justice and opportunity are extended to everyone. We fulfill this mission in three principal ways: making grants to nonprofit organizations and designing special funding initiatives to address this community's critical challenges; working in partnership with donors and other funders to achieve high-impact philanthropy; serving as a civic hub and center of information, where ideas are shared, levers for change are identified, and common agendas for the future are developed. The Foundation and its donors make more than $80 million in grants every year.
`ein` EIN	04-2104021
`tot_exp` Total expenses	157948534.0
`admin_exp_p` Administrative expense fraction	0.092
`fund_eff` Fundraising efficiency ($ per $1 raised)	0.01
`fund_exp_p` Fundraising expense fraction	0.015
`program_exp_p` Program expense fraction	0.892
`fscore` Financial score	96.75
`leader` Recorded leader	Paul S. Grogan
`leader_comp` Recorded leader compensation	642391.0
`leader_comp_p` Recorded leader compensation fraction	0.004
`motto` Tagline	Innovation. Information. Impact.
`name` Charity name	The Boston Foundation
`tot_rev` Total revenue	205819144.0
`score` Overall score	96.35
`state` State code	MA
`subcategory` Subcategory	Community Foundations
`size` Source size label	big
`program_exp` Program expenses	140890092.328
`fund_exp` Fundraising expenses	2369228.01
`admin_exp` Administrative expenses	14531265.128

Identity & classification

At a glance

EIN: 04-2104021
Source category: Community Development
Source subcategory: Community Foundations
Recorded location: Massachusetts (MA)
Expense-based size: Large
Above $13.5M in total expenses · source label: big

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Source: Charity Navigator Scores Expenses Dataset, version 1, attributed to katyjqian on Kaggle. Collection: May 2019; rating details mostly from 2017. Read attribution, scope, and reuse notes.