· Private foundation
Baker Root Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAB Community Services | $5,500 |
| Museum of Fine Arts Boston | $4,500 |
| Chamber Orchestra of Boston | $2,500 |
| Pine Street Inn | $1,500 |
| Tricon Church | $1,200 |
| First Literacy | $1,000 |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America | $1,000 |
| New England Center and Home for Veterans | $1,000 |
| NESEA | $1,000 |
| Horizons For Homeless Children | $800 |
| Project Hope | $800 |
| Project Bread | $750 |
| The Umbrella Community Arts Center | $700 |
| Friends of CCHS Swimming and Diving | $530 |
| More Than Words | $515 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
55 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- MCMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +92%
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS5× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +72%
- FLFIRST LITERACY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- NENew England Center and Home for Veone grant, 2021 · $1k
- EDEDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $500 · revenue +77%
- CFCenter For Policing Equityone grant, 2020 · $300
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.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
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.
Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Preservation of civil liberties through litigation and public 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…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Immigration Law Center and the most unlike its peers is Educational Development Group 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 38 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) — 2% 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.
59 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. 59 of the 69 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 MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER ORCHESTRA OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds FIRST LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON UMBRELLA INC ↗
- Who funds NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of CCHS Swimming and Diving ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIVE AMERICAN RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE REPORTERS COMMITTEE FOR FREEDOM OF THE PRESS ↗
- Who funds CONCORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Sylvia Rivera Law Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT CHILDRENS RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Diomedes Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Boger Charitable Trust · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Kane Wallace Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I
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 Baker Root Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% 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.