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Yawkey Foundation II

Foundation· Westwood, Massachusetts

Foundation, based in Westwood, Massachusetts, reporting $467M in assets.

Composed from this allocator's classification, location and filed figures.

Assets
$467M
Fund commitments
23
Managers
7
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As of · the latest dated event for this allocator; each figure carries its own filing or report date

What may matter next

A pattern DFX replayed against history, using only what was known on each date, points at this record. The rate belongs to the pattern, not to this entity; what already happened is below.

Allocators · Re-upWindow to Sep 2027

Yawkey Foundation II

Emerging

Watch for: commits to the successor fund by Sep 2027.

What DFX sees in the record
  • DerivedYawkey Foundation II holds a fund and the manager's next fund in that series, a fund, is open (fundraising).
  • DerivedNo commitment to the new fund appears on the plan's filings yet.
Why it matters

This allocator committed to the prior fund of a series that now has a successor fund. Existing LPs are the first calls in any raise, so this is the re-up list for the GP, and for a competing GP it shows whose capital may be in play.

Who this is for

GPs raising a successor fund, placement agents, and competing GPs in the same strategy.

Can you reach them

Decision maker identified; no contact route on file yet.

Read with care: the rate belongs to the pattern, not to this one; it is not a forecast.

How the pattern measured, and every other entity on it: re-up prospects.

What matters now

  1. 1
    re-up prospects

    1 re-up prospect was flagged in the last twelve months: a manager it backed raising a successor fund.

    Managers it already backs are raising again; a re-up decision is coming.

    Inferencea successor fund observed for a manager the plan backsRe-up prospects →

4 more managers, 20 more commitments and 2 more dated events

Every figure, date and source on this page is shown. The names behind them, and every related record, open with the complete profile.

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People to know

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  • John A Desisto
    CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
    Why: Chief investment officer: owns the allocation decision
    No route on file yet

Capital path

who backs this record, through what, into what; each name opens its own path
Who decides
Yawkey Foundation II
Funds committed to
All 8
Managers
All 7

Relationship network

31 connected entities23 observed commitments2 repeat counterparties7 dated commitments shown here, 2024

From board minutes, annual reports, Form 5500 filings and public records of commitments, consultants and staff in the allocator graph. Commitment amounts are those the allocator disclosed; many are not printed, and none is estimated.

Some relationships on this record are counted rather than named here. They open with the full profile.

Click any name or line for the commitments and sources behind it. Line weight is commitments together; dashed lines are inferred.

What stands out
Reading the network
  • Sponsor
  • Fund or vehicle
  • Person

Managers, funds and consultants are read from the commitments: three or more is a strong observed relationship, two a repeat counterparty. No consultant link is marked current on the source, so none is labelled current or former here. Related plans, people and plan service providers are ordered by what the filing shows.

Darker lines were active in the last 24 months or are current; lighter lines are older or undated.

Size, funding, policy and commitments, with their basesFoundation · EIN 042768239Show
Foundation
Assets
$467M
Total assets, Dec 31, 2024 reported
Funded
no pension liability
not filed
Private markets target
no policy read
no policy read
Commitments
23
7 managers on Schedule C
Consultants and advisers
No adviser relationship is on the tape for this allocator. Public systems name theirs in the ACFR; plans list them on Schedule C.
Decision makers
who to call first about an allocation, and why; then everyone else by function
  • John A Desisto · CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
    Why this person: Chief investment officer: owns the allocation decision; Named with investment responsibility

Ranked by the role the firm or its filing states, a route on file and deals led. Every reason is read from the record, never inferred. Routes are published by the person or the firm (their bio, the team page or a filing) and are revealed on a plan; data bought from a provider is never shown, and a route printed at a firm the person has since left is held back.

People
1 role
Chief investment officer
John A Desisto
CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER (Dec 31, 2024) apps.irs.gov
JOHN A DESISTO | CHIEF INVESTMENT OFFICER
    Manager roster
    7 managers on the commitment tape
    From the plan’s own commitment disclosures

    +4 more managers received commitments

    Every name, record and relationship behind this count, with the source on each.

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    What changed
    7 events
    • Sep 24, 2026re up prospect resolvedreport dateinference
      Re-up prospect for Monogram Capital Partners III, L.P.: condition no longer holds; not judged
      with Monogram Capital Management, L.P.no URL
    • Sep 23, 2026re up prospect resolvedreport dateinference
      Re-up prospect for Spark Capital Growth Fund VI-A, L.P.: condition no longer holds; not judged
      with Spark Capitalno URL
    • Sep 23, 2026re up prospect resolvedreport dateinference
      Re-up prospect for Spark Capital Growth Fund VI, L.P.: condition no longer holds; not judged
      with Spark Capitalno URL
    • Sep 16, 2026Re-up prospectreport dateinference
      Yawkey Foundation II holds SPARK CAPITAL VIII LP; the manager is raising: Spark Capital IX, L.P. (fundraising, seen 2026-09-16); no commitment to it on the graph
      with Spark Capitalno URL
    • Sep 16, 2026Re-up prospectreport dateinference
      Yawkey Foundation II holds SPARK CAPITAL GROWTH FUND V LP; the manager is raising: Spark Capital Growth Fund VI, L.P. (fundraising, seen 2026-09-16); no commitment to it on the graph
      with Spark Capitalno URL

    +2 more dated events

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    Board record: approvals, recommendations, searches, terminations and re-up prospects for this system.
    Commitments
    23 rows, 0 dated closings
    DateFundManagerBucketAmountVintageStatusSource
    as of Dec 31, 2024SPARK CAPITAL VIII LPSpark CapitalPrivate equity$225,777 held2024Disclosed holdingapps.irs.gov
    as of Dec 31, 2024BLUE SEA CAPITAL FUND III LPBlue Sea Capital LLCPrivate equity$3.0M held2024Disclosed holdingapps.irs.gov
    as of Dec 31, 2024MONOGRAM CAPITAL PARTNERS IIMonogram Capital Management, L.P.Private equity$5.8M held2021Disclosed holdingapps.irs.gov

    +20 more commitments

    Every fund and manager this allocator committed to, with the amount, date and source on each.

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    Size and funding
    3 readings
    Total assets
    $467M Dec 31, 2024 reported IRS 990
    $467M (2024-12)
    Income
    $215M Dec 31, 2024 reported IRS BMF
    Provenance
    Identifiers: EIN 042768239
    Cross-graph: family office graph (shared ein)
    First observed Sep 15, 2026, last observed Sep 25, 2026. Classification confirmed. Every row above carries its source; a reported figure is the subject’s own, a derived one is arithmetic on reported figures, an estimated one is a model or a survey imputation and is never summed into a headline.

    Not yet on record: private markets allocation target, allocation policy.

    Across the graphs

    Yawkey Foundation II is the same institution as 1 record in Family Offices.

    Family Offices1

    The joined record opens with the product, beside every other relationship on this page.

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    Capital chain

    Yawkey Foundation II sits on 37 traced paths of capital across the graphs.

    Allocator commitments to a managerAllocator to VC fund to manager to companyAllocator to PE fund to manager to company

    DFX traced 37 paths of capital through this record

    Every record on each path, what it committed or lent, and as of when.

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    Derived from allocator disclosures, BDC schedules and SEC filings; confidence is the weakest hop.

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    Record history

    7 dated events on the change ledger, latest event first
    • Re up prospect resolved
      2026-09-24
    • Re up prospect resolved
      2026-09-23
    • Re up prospect resolved
      2026-09-23

    +4 more changes on this record's ledger

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    The ledger records every merge, rename and reclassification this record went through and the dated filings observed on it, so the identity on this page can be traced to the records it was built from. The ledger's own sentences name other records, so they show with the names.

    ›Connections

    every published relationship on the graph

    +15 connections on the graph

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