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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- CRCHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC3× · 2018–2025 · $16k · revenue +35%
THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC4× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +30%
WORCESTER ART MUSEUM2× · 2018–2019 · $11k · revenue +130%
Funded once
THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $9k · revenue -16%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- BIBRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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,…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
305 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. 305 of the 439 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CHARLES RIVER COMMUNITY HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING PARTNERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW BEDFORD COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds Tiverton Land Trust ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds BAYPATH HUMANE SOCIETY OF HOPKINTON INC ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Granite VNA Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER STATE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Tailored For Success 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: 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
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 Aaf Charitable 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.
- 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
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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