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Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd
The bain capital children's charity, ltd.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 71 grants below total $1,752,113 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,878,863 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $126,750 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k59 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k10 grants · $635k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $184,613 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTES SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUEL | $50,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON JEWISH COALITION FOR LITERACY (GBJC | $50,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INC | $50,000 |
| STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC | $50,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $50,000 |
| BUILD BOSTONS YOUTH ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAM | $35,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC | $25,000 |
| EISENHOWER EXCHANGE FELLOWSHIPS INC | $25,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $25,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE | $25,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
76 repeat relationships — 55 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 15 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $260k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC7× · 2018–2024 · $540k · revenue +58%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +98%- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN7× · 2018–2024 · $500k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- NPNEW PROFIT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +56%
- BSBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -99%
- MYMV YOUTH INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Provide transformative educational experiences that empower underserved students
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…
The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.
Bpe's mission is to drive exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
99 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. 99 of the 105 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SPORTS HUMANITARIAN GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY WESTON PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR FAMILY REPRESENTATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Surfers Healing Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
- Who funds THE3POINTFOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Westhab Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships Incorporated ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
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 Bain Capital Children's Charity Ltd 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.
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation 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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