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Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$835k
Granted FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$40k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.5MHuman Services$1.1MHealth$586kCrime & Legal$497kHousing & Shelter$411kEducation$291kEnvironment$285kArts & Culture$219kOther$0
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k49 grants · $820k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS$40,460
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE$35,000
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$30,000
SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS$25,000
LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC$25,000
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC$25,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC$25,000
RESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT$25,000
NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIROMENT FUND$20,000
GIRLS LEAP$20,000
CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ$20,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$20,000
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS$20,000
DIGNITY MATTERS INC$20,000
CHICA PROJECT$20,000
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 (FY20–25, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LA COLLABORATIVA INC: $30k → 16%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $37k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $23k → 16%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $35k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $18k → 16%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $35k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $18k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $37k → 8%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $30k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $21k → 8%LA COLLABORATIVA INC: $15k → 16%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $20k → 8%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $30k → 16%SITTERS FOR SCHOLARS: $20k → 7%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $20k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $20k → 8%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $25k → 16%INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $23k → 16%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $30k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $25k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $18k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $15k → 8%ON THE RISE INC: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $15k → 8%BUDGET BUDDIES: $23k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $26k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 16%YW BOSTON: $18k → 16%YW BOSTON: $15k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $40k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $30k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $25k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $15k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $20k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $18k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $18k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ: $15k → 16%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $25k → 16%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $21k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $45k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $40k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $28k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $20k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $18k → 16%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $21k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 73 repeat orgs$287k to everyone else

73 repeat relationships: 45 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
20

Total granted

$5.4M
$227k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+56%

Still filing today

79%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthRecreation & SportsEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • LA
    LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $192k · revenue +85%
  • BH
    BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +24%
  • PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $156k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • SB
    SOUTH BOSTON EN ACCIONINC
    one grant, 2021 · $29k
  • LS
    LITTLE SISTERS OF THE
    one grant, 2020 · $23k
  • SM
    St Mary's Center for Women & Children Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +81%
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
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
2
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
4
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
5
Women's Institute for Housing and Economic Development Inc

The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.

—
6
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
7
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
8
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

—
9
Project Hope Boston Inc

Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…

Human Services
10
New Bedford Women's Center Inc

To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.

—
11
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
12
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; the most unlike its peers is On With Living and Learning 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

79 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. 79 of the 101 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)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/79
Grantees still filing
57/79
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE: $155,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUETHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $142,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYCHICA PROJECT: $133,500 · OtherCHICA PROJECTSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS BOSTON: $100,000 · OtherBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $96,500 · OtherYWCA OF BOSTON: $81,000 · OtherLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC: $122,000 · OtherPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $156,060 · OtherPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INCNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $107,500 · OtherMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $123,000 · Other+43 more: $1,146,000 · Other+43 moreLA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $192,000 · Human ServicesLA ALIANZA HISPANA INCBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $157,500 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW HOUSE INCDignity Matters Inc: $118,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters IncCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $118,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INCEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL…CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $99,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INCROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $97,000 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE INCWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $96,500 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INCGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $88,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBUR…BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $86,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $77,500 · Human ServicesHARBORCOV INC: $75,500 · Human Services+8 more: $208,500 · Human Services+8 moreRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC: $183,000 · HealthRESILIENT S…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $133,500 · HealthBRIDGE OVER…DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $109,000 · HealthDE NOVO CEN…BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $90,000 · HealthBOSTON AREA…ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $77,500 · HealthECONOMIC MO…+3 more: $25,000 · HealthSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $176,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LA…SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $136,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLU…SILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $76,500 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINI…America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentAmerica Sco…THE CLUBHOUSE NETWORK INC: $61,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CLUBHOU…GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $30,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCOR…+3 more: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 · EducationMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $111,000 · EducationFound in Translation Inc: $40,000 · EducationTHE WILY NETWORK: $30,000 · EducationARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $107,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS: $81,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INC: $59,500 · Arts & CultureURBANITY DANCE INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $142,500 · Crime & LegalMABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $65,000 · Crime & LegalCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$2,362,560Human Services$1,523,500Health$618,000Youth Development$571,000Education$301,000Arts & Culture$267,500Crime & Legal$227,500

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 budgetLA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $192,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetRESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC: $183,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $176,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $157,500 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $156,060 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $142,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $142,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $136,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $133,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $123,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC: $122,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $120,000 over 6y, 77% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $118,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $118,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $111,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $110,000 over 4y, 7.3% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $109,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC: $107,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $107,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $99,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $97,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $96,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $96,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $88,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $86,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS: $81,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $77,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $76,500 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetHARBORCOV INC: $75,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $66,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $65,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $65,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE CLUBHOUSE NETWORK INC: $61,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetZUMIX INC: $59,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSHOOTING TOUCH INC: $58,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE INC: $56,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER: $54,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $53,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMEDIAGIRLS INC: $50,000 over 2y, 29% of budgetSITTERS FOR SCHOLARS INC: $50,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetON THE RISE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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 LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC ↗
  • Who funds RESILIENT SISTERHOOD PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
  • Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHELSEA EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
  • Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON RAISING POWERFUL MUSICIANS ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
  • Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBORCOV INC ↗
  • Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗

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…Liberty Mutual Founda…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Bushrod H Campbell & …United Way Of Massach…The Cabot Family Char…Rockland Trust Charit…Adelard & Valeda Roy …Yawkey Foundation IIRockland Trust - Blue…Cambridge Savings Cha…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA84.2× affinity41 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) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable 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 Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Respond Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Harborcov Inc: 76% of income from government
  • G Code Inc: 55% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Communities for People Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • La Alianza Hispana Inc: 41% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Interseminarian - Project Place Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Maverick Landing Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Girls On the Run Greater Boston: 4% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Urbanity Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Clubhouse Network Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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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Find your warmest path to Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc 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 101 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home