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Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation at a glance

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Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$13MHuman Services$516kYouth Development$369kPhilanthropy$351kHealth$290kHousing & Shelter$236kArts & Culture$134kFood & Nutrition$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,467,811
Median grant
1
States reached
$47M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
summary$2,467,811
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $75k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES INC: $75k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $40k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $40k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $40k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $38k → 8%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS INC: $25k → 8%TAILORED FOR SUCCESS INC: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY FAMILY: $20k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $20k → 8%COMMUNITY FAMILY: $20k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $20k → 8%RESPOND INC: $10k → 8%RESPOND INC: $10k → 8%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $4k → 8%FAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESS: $4k → 8%CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%CHILDREN'S ROOM: $3k → 8%SENIOR CENTER FRIENDS OF STONEHAM: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 8%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.
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 117 repeat orgs$405k to everyone else

117 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 116 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
44

Total granted

$15M
$405k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+46%

Still filing today

45%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & 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

  • MP
    MALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    2× · 2017–2018 · $161k · revenue +7%
  • TI
    THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $157k · revenue +22%
  • HF
    HOUSING FAMILIES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $150k · revenue +462%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $159k
  • TF
    THE FITCH HOME INC
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +5%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
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
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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2
Dean College

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,…

Education
3
Western New England University

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…

Education
4
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
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
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
7
Northeastern University
Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
10
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
11
Nichols College

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…

Education
12
University of Massachusetts Global

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
64/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

summary: $12,173,344 · Othersummary+107 more: $2,262,034 · Other+107 moreHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds Inc: $78,000 · Human ServicesTailored For Success Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND Inc: $20,000 · Human Services+5 more: $21,000 · Human ServicesRAR-MA INC: $30,000 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College: $21,450 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $14,600 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $12,000 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITY: $10,200 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $10,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE: $10,000 · EducationBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $9,900 · Education+14 more: $35,600 · EducationFriends of Malden Teen Enrichment Ce: $86,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC: $39,460 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $28,000 · Arts & CultureGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $24,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $8,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,500 · Arts & CultureBREAD OF LIFE INC: $90,000 · ReligionEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $40,000 · HealthMALDEN OVERCOMING ADDICTION INC: $10,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 · HealthSAMARITANS INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE BARTON CENTER FOR DIABETES EDUCATION: $5,070 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · Health
Other$14,435,378Human Services$479,000Education$173,750Youth Development$158,000Arts & Culture$110,960Religion$90,000Health$87,070

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 budgetMALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $161,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC: $156,575 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetAGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS: $122,200 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetFriends of Malden Teen Enrichment Ce: $86,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $78,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetTHE PINE BANKS PARK FOUNDATION INC: $57,750 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE FITCH HOME INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTRIANGLE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTailored For Success Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetBAY STATE READING INSTITUTE INC DBA MOMENTA: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC: $39,460 over 2y, 11% of budgetREFUGEE IMMIGRATION MINISTRY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $28,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $24,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $21,450 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetOPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRESPOND Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COOKS INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $14,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $10,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMALDEN OVERCOMING ADDICTION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget2ND ACT ORG INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $9,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $7,800 over 2y, 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.

  • 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 THE FITCH HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIANGLE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds Tailored For Success Inc ↗
  • Who funds BAY STATE READING INSTITUTE INC DBA MOMENTA ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHINESE CULTURE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds REFUGEE IMMIGRATION MINISTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Rockland Trust Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …Cambridge Savings Cha…People's United Commu…Boston Foundation IncSalem Five Charitable…The Hamilton Company …Melrose Cooperative B…Rockland Trust - East…Essex County Communit…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA49.7× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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 Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Adelaide Breed Bayrd 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 161 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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