· Private foundation
A Chance for Progress Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE ONETA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MORE PERFECT UNION | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF METRO NORTH | $20,000 |
| THE CIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $15,000 |
| SOLDIERS ANGELS | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS | $10,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $10,000 |
| RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE ANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BOSTON BACKPACK PROJECT | $10,000 |
| GIRLS EMPOWERMENT NETWORK | $10,000 |
| SELF ESTEEM BOSTON | $10,000 |
| WAYPOINT | $10,000 |
| A WISH WITH WINGS | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…
To support, promote, and advance the mission of the naval academy.
Uaspire's mission is to improve the economic mobility of underrepresented students by creating financial solutions to diverse postsecondary pathways.
Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social…
To provide wellness and wellbeing services to veterans and family members across all dimensions and empower them to achieve their full potential. provide outreach services to underserved areas veterans are in.
Sra empowers students facing systemic barriers to define and find success through their education, career, and in life. we envision a world in which every person can achieve economic and social equity. our college completion and workforce…
The mission of the boston bar foundation (bbf) is to promote justice by funding and promoting innovation in legal services, enhancing access to justice for the underserved, and supporting the public interest activities of the bar. as the…
To improve the health, well being, sustainability, and self reliance of people living in isolated regions connected to us through surfing including their ability to respond to environmental conditions caused by climate change.
Silver lining mentoring's mission is to empower youth impacted by foster care to thrive through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Our mission is to provide college scholarships to dependent children and spouses of us navy aviation personnel - officer and enlisted - active duty, retired, honorably discharged or deceased. recipients are selected on the basis of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soldiers' Angels and the most unlike its peers is Bellaire Lacrosse Club. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MORE PERFECT UNION ↗
- Who funds THE ONETA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CIO SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLANDERS HELPING OUR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds WAYPOINT ↗
- Who funds A WISH WITH WINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLDIERS' ANGELS ↗
- Who funds ANGIOGENESIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GENAUSTIN ↗
- Who funds Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BELLAIRE LACROSSE CLUB ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization A Chance for Progress Inc 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.
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
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.