· Private foundation
Arbella Insurance 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k149 grants · $282k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $520k
- $50k–250k16 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA | $152,319 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEATH CENTER | $150,000 |
| LIVE NATION MARKETING INC | $133,222 |
| DANA FARBER | $126,857 |
| AUDACY OPERATIONS | $114,000 |
| MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| FRANKLIN CUMMINGS TECH (BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE) | $100,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $89,750 |
| CYBERGRANTS LLC | $79,160 |
| HOPEWELL INC | $75,000 |
| INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC | $59,340 |
| FATHER BILLS & MAINSPRING | $51,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| THE ELLIE FUND | $50,000 |
| SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $2.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 57% 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.
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 +23% for the ones you funded once.
566 repeat relationships — 132 still active in FY2024, 434 since wound down; 67 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k 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
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC5× · 2020–2024 · $843k · revenue +27%
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC4× · 2020–2024 · $618k · revenue +107%
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2024 · $400k · revenue +77%
Funded once
- FBFATHER BILL'S MAINSPRINGone grant, 2021 · $257k
- MAMASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $105k
- QFQUINCY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $100k
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.
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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 organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
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…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…
To provide the community with comprehensive health care in dorchester, ma including primary and specialty care, home care, social services, women, infant and child care, and adult day health care.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Survival Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Motorheads Car Club. 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 31 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
956 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. 956 of the 1,638 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CELTICS SHAMROCK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY FORWARD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
- Who funds INNOVATION NETWORK FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 Arbella Insurance 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.
- People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Malden Overcoming Addiction Inc — 81% of income from government
- Elizabeth Freeman Center Inc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Work Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc — 42% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Journey Forward Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Adelbrook Inc — 9% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% 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
- Safe Coalition Incorported — 6% of income from government
- Soccer Unity Project Inc — 6% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boston Book Festival Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rachel's Table of Western Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Scituate Food Pantry Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Down Syndrome Association of Connec — 0% of income from government
- Insurance Library Association of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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