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Ac Ratshesky Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$293k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$582kEmployment$540kYouth Development$415kEducation$403kCommunity Improvement$265kHousing & Shelter$210kInternational$185kFood & Nutrition$105kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $290k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH FILMS$25,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND$25,000
INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND$20,000
JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC$20,000
FOUND IN TRANSLATION$20,000
UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON$20,000
BRIGHTER BOSTON INC$20,000
LA COLABORATIVA INC$20,000
MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO$20,000
HEBREW COLLEGE$20,000
JUST-A-START CORPORATION$20,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$20,000
PER SCHOLAS$20,000
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$20,000
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS$2,730
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $642k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $12k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 16%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $25k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $20k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10k → 7%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10k → 7%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10k → 7%QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC: $10k → 7%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $20k → 16%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $15k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $15k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $25k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $10k → 8%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $15k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $15k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $15k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $15k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $15k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 16%SMART FROM THE START: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA: $15k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $15k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA: $10k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 45 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
25

Total granted

$2.5M
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+3%

Still filing today

82%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $135k · revenue +44%
  • FF
    FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +85%
  • JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $115k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +86%
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +122%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
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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3
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
4
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
5
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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6
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education
7
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
8
Apprentice Learning Inc

Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.

Youth Development
9
Junior Achievement of Southern Ma

Junior achievement of southern massachusetts is part of the world's largest organization dedicated to giving young people the knowledge and skill they need to own their economic success, plan for their future, and make smart academic and…

International
10
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
11
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
12
More Than Words Inc

Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Smart From the Start Inc and the most unlike its peers is New England Historic Genealogical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHigher Education Institutio…History Museums & LibrariesPerforming Arts Organizatio…Land and Water ConservationInternational Development P…Regional Health SystemsDevelopmental Disability Se…Homeless Services & ShelterSchool Support FoundationsHealth Systems and Medical …Professional & Industry Ass…Community Access Television
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%12%35–55yr13%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr13%33%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/58
the rest of the field
10%
1,770/17,217

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

58 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. 58 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
45/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL IN…SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOO…FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY NURTURING CENTER …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $52,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN AS…QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES I…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INCASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASS…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INCACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesBUILD GREATER BOSTON — $95,000 · OtherBUILD GREATER BOSTONPROJECT HOPE — $60,000 · OtherPROJECT HOPEYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $55,000 · OtherYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INCGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCTHE SALVATION ARMY — $35,000 · OtherCAREER COLLABORATIVE INC — $35,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INC — $35,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $30,000 · OtherDREAMING TREE FOUNDATION (DBA FRESH FILMS) — $30,000 · OtherSTRIVE BOSTONJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE — $30,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $95,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW E…UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $30,000 · Other+19 more — $257,930 · Other+19 moreCHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · EducationCHELSEA EDUCATION FOU…Found in Translation Inc — $95,000 · EducationFound in Translation …RAR-MA INC — $80,000 · EducationRAR-MA INCTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC — $70,000 · EducationTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT …ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC — $60,000 · EducationENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTO…MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC — $40,000 · EducationMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZA…HEBREW COLLEGE — $38,000 · EducationHEBREW COLLEGENEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC — $35,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CENTER FO…+3 more — $35,000 · Education+3 moreJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $115,000 · EmploymentJEWISH VOCATION…OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $115,000 · EmploymentOPERATION ABLE …PER SCHOLAS INC — $50,000 · EmploymentPER SCHOLAS INCBRIGHTER BOSTON INC — $50,000 · EmploymentBRIGHTER BOSTON…THE LOOP LAB INC — $30,000 · EmploymentTHE LOOP LAB IN…CODESQUAD INC — $20,000 · Employment+2 more — $20,000 · EmploymentTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $135,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SEC…JUST-A-START CORPORATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementJUST-A-ST…AFRICAN BRIDGE NETWORK — $15,000 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN B…SOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH FILMS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureTRANSFORMATIVE CULTURE PROJECT INC F/K/A PRESS PASS TV INC — $20,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$642,000Other$837,930Education$558,000Employment$400,000Community Improvement$250,000Youth Development$115,000Arts & Culture$110,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $130,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $115,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $115,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 7y, 40% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $100,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $100,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetFound in Translation Inc — $95,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $95,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $85,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRAR-MA INC — $80,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC — $70,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC — $60,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $55,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $52,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER BOSTON INC — $50,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetQUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC — $40,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH FILMS — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHEBREW COLLEGE — $38,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAREER COLLABORATIVE INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCODESQUAD INC — $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WALTHAM FAMILY SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetAFRICAN BRIDGE NETWORK — $15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $12,930 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSMART FROM THE START INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND HISTORIC GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOT NS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds CHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
  • Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIGHTER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH FILMS ↗
  • Who funds HEBREW COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds CAREER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…The Cabot Family Char…Rockland Trust Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …Cambridge Savings Cha…Combined Jewish Phila…Tr Uw Helen F Kimball…Fidelity Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA56.9× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Tr Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship · Fidelity 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 Ac Ratshesky Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Brighter Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to Ac Ratshesky Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ac Ratshesky 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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