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Aaf Charitable Foundation

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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
120
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$93kHuman Services$46kHousing & Shelter$43kEducation$42kArts & Culture$21kAnimals$19kPhilanthropy$17kYouth Development$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 120 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
16
States reached
$283k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK$5,000
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON INC$3,440
AICPA FOUNDATION$2,000
WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC$1,800
NURTURY$1,500
PINE STREET INN$1,100
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE$1,000
BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC$1,000
ROCA$1,000
CHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH$1,000
ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY$1,000
EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER INC$1,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE$800
WORCESTER STATE UNIVERSITY$750
MSPCA ANGELL$570
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 9%AUDIO JOURNAL: $250 → 11%OLD COLONY HOSPICE: $250 → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $500 → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $250 → 11%OLD COLONY YMCA: $2k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER INC: $250 → 11%OLD COLONY YMCA: $2k → 8%CLARENDON EARLY EDUCATION SERVICES INC: $250 → 10%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $2k → 8%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $250 → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $500 → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $375 → 8%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $300 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $300 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $750 → 16%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS: $500 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS: $500 → 8%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS: $250 → 8%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS: $250 → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $250 → 8%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS: $250 → 8%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE: $500 → 8%SUNFLOWER OF PEACE: $425 → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $2k → 16%BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $1k → 8%INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES: $500 → 8%HEBREW SENIOR LIFE HOSPICE CARE INC: $500 → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICE INSTITUTE INC: $470 → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTER INC: $1k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET: $1k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $450 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET: $400 → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $400 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $375 → 16%CATIES' CLOSET: $250 → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $250 → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $250 → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $250 → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $250 → 8%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $1k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $800 → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE: $500 → 16%JANE DOE INC: $500 → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $519 → 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

ME
VT
NH
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
MO
WV
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
OK
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$246k · 164 repeat orgs$107k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

164 repeat relationships: 74 still active in FY2025, 90 since wound down; 45 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

164
227

Total granted

$246k
$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+22%

Still filing today

81%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • CR
    CHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC
    3× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +30%
  • WORCESTER ART MUSEUM
    2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +130%

Funded once

  • THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -16%
  • BI
    BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
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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2
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
3
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
4
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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5
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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6
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
9
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
12
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc; the most unlike its peers is Meg's Fight for a Cure Juvenile Hungington's Disease Foundation 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

305 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. 305 of the 439 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
63
Early backer (in before they grew)
298/305
Grantees still filing
213/305
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JORDAN MATTHEW PORCO FOUNDATION: $13,700 · OtherJORDAN MATTHEW PORCO FOUNDATIONGREATER NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 · OtherGREATER NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INCTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $5,500 · OtherTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION: $9,000 · OtherTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION+101 more: $112,754 · Other+101 moreCHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $16,000 · HealthCHARLES RIVER COMMU…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,083 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer …MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,250 · HealthMASS INSIGHT EDUCAT…Granite VNA Inc: $2,850 · HealthMILFORD REGIONAL HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,600 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,376 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,050 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $2,000 · HealthELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 · HealthFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,970 · Health+19 more: $14,057 · Health+19 moreWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,808 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRI…PINE STREET INN INC: $4,600 · Human ServicesPINE STREET I…OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YO…Catie's Closet Inc: $2,750 · Human ServicesCatie's Close…BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $2,600 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW HOU…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,519 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CR…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,125 · Human ServicesTailored For Success Inc: $2,050 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1,575 · Human ServicesGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $1,475 · Human Services+17 more: $11,347 · Human Services+17 moreTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC: $15,200 · Housing & ShelterMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,600 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterWOONSOCKET NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,440 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,275 · Housing & ShelterFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $1,075 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $1,100 · Housing & ShelterWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $10,500 · Arts & CultureJOOKENDER COMMUNITY INITIATIVES INC: $1,300 · Arts & CultureWestborough Connects Inc: $1,050 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC: $1,025 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $750 · Arts & CultureACTING OUT THEATER COMPANY INC: $750 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $1,380 · Arts & CultureJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $5,450 · Community ImprovementTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $3,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $2,500 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 · Community ImprovementCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,000 · Community ImprovementCHESTERBROOK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $975 · Community Improvement+2 more: $1,000 · Community ImprovementWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,950 · EducationLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $1,483 · EducationThe Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame: $1,300 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $1,250 · EducationSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc: $1,250 · EducationASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $1,200 · EducationNICHOLS COLLEGE: $970 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $700 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $600 · EducationPROVIDENCE PROMISE: $525 · EducationENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $500 · Education+1 more: $350 · Education
Other$156,454Health$55,236Human Services$39,849Housing & Shelter$24,190Arts & Culture$16,755Community Improvement$15,925Education$14,878

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 budgetCHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC: $15,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $10,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,083 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5,808 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $5,450 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNURTURY INC: $5,045 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTiverton Land Trust: $4,900 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $4,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $3,790 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC: $3,625 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,895 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGranite VNA Inc: $2,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC: $2,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $2,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMETRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC: $2,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $2,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $2,519 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSweet Paws Rescue Inc: $2,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,376 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,125 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $2,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTailored For Success Inc: $2,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,970 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $1,950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHEARTFELT DREAMS FOUNDATION LTD: $1,750 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $1,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $1,575 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE SCHOOL FOR AUTISM INC: $1,483 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $1,475 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOONSOCKET NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $1,440 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,325 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA102.4× affinity103 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank 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 Aaf Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aaf Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 420%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Autism Services Association Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Incompass Human Services Inc: 94% of income from government
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Pathway to Possible Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Amegoinc: 76% of income from government
  • Work Incorporated: 76% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Tri-Valley Inc: 68% of income from government
  • North Suffolk Community Services Inc: 63% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Nurtury Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Worcester Comm Housing Resource Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Audio Journal Incorporated: 35% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Clarendon Early Education Services Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Primary Source Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Charles River Community Health Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Revolutionary Spaces Inc: 20% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Creative Haverhill Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Old Colony Hospice Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Greater New Bedford Community Health Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • The Housing Partnership Network Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Natural History Society Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Orchestras Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • World Unity Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The New England Center for Children Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston's Higher Ground Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Animal Shelter Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Als One Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Center for Circus Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Somerville Community Corporation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House 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
  • Assumption University: 0% of income from government
  • Nichols College: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
42get no government money at all
35report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
12rely 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.
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How do I get to Aaf Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aaf Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 439 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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