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Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| summary | $2,467,811 |
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 (FY17–18, $479k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MPMALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY2× · 2017–2018 · $161k · revenue +7%
- TITHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $157k · revenue +22%
- HFHOUSING FAMILIES INC2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +462%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $159k
- TFTHE FITCH HOME INCone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $30k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
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…
Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…
The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Fitch Home Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 54 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
77 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. 77 of the 161 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 MALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Malden Teen Enrichment Ce ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PINE BANKS PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BAY STATE READING INSTITUTE INC DBA MOMENTA ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FITCH HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Tailored For Success Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE IMMIGRATION MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE 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.
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc
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 Adelaide Breed Bayrd 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.
- Triangle Inc — 90% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Malden Overcoming Addiction Inc — 81% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Stoneham Historical Society Inc — 62% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Community Family Inc — 41% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Fitch Home Inc — 9% of income from government
- Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- New England Deaconess Association — 6% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Chinese Culture Connection Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% 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.
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