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Bertram D Blaisdell Tua at a glance

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Bertram D Blaisdell Tua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$55kHuman Services$46kPhilanthropy$12kEducation$12kRecreation & Sports$7kArts & Culture$7kAnimals$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$427k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON ATHLETIC ACADEMY$7,000
HANSON COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS INC$5,000
THE ARNOLD L ANDERSON HOUSE$2,000
KITTY CONNECTION INC$2,000
MEDFORD COMMUNITY CHARALE INC$2,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%HOPEWELL: $5k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $5k → 16%HOPEWELL: $2k → 11%BOSTON ATHLETIC ACADEMY: $7k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC: $4k → 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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$105k · 10 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$105k
$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
-2%

Still filing today

60%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionAnimalsArts & 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

  • OC
    OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $18k · revenue +56%
  • Bay State Community Services Inc
    2× · 2022–2023 · $15k · revenue +46%
  • HI
    HOPEWELL INC
    2× · 2019–2022 · $7k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • EB
    EAST BOSTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL EAST BOSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $9k
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE FOREST CLOSET INC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • GB
    GR BOSTON CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CTR
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
2
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,…

—
3
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
4
Beth Israel Hospital & Children's Hospital Medical Care Corporation

Pediatric healthcare, education & research

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5
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…

Health
6
Berkshire Medical Center Inc

The mission of berkshire medical center is to advance health and wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming, inclusive, and personalized environment.

Health
7
Cutchins Programs for Children & Families Inc

To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…

Health
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
9
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
10
Massachusetts Down Syndrome Congress Inc

To ensure individuals with down syndrome in massachusetts are valued, included, and given the opportunities to pursue fulfilling lives by providing information, networking opportunities, and advocacy for people with down syndrome and their…

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11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
12
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Arnold L Anderson House 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

14 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. 14 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Bay State Community Services Inc: $14,964 · OtherBay State Community Services IncIndividual grant recipient: $14,391 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEAST BOSTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL EAST BOSTON: $9,000 · OtherEAST BOSTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL EAST BOSTONSOUTH SHORE FOREST CLOSET INC: $8,125 · OtherSOUTH SHORE FOREST CLOSET INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $7,500 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSISHANSON COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS INC: $7,500 · OtherHANSON COMMUNITY CHRISTMAS INCGR BOSTON CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CTR: $5,383 · OtherGR BOSTON CHILDRENS DYSLEXIA CTRMASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION: $5,359 · OtherMASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTIONMEDFORD COMMUNITY CHORALE INC: $4,500 · OtherMEDFORD COMMUNITY CHORALE INCYMCA OLD COLONY BROCKTON: $3,500 · OtherOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $18,469 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRIS…Boston Athletic Academy Incorporated: $7,000 · Human ServicesBoston Athletic Academy Inco…HOPEWELL INC: $6,883 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INCMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $4,790 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INCUNCORNERED INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INCNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $19,986 · HealthNATIONAL MULTIP…Children's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 · HealthChildren's Hosp…BOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $6,665 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $4,512 · PhilanthropyKitty Connection Inc: $4,500 · AnimalsTHE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 · EducationARNOLD L ANDERSON HOUSE INC: $2,000 · EducationThe Food Project Inc: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$80,222Human Services$41,142Health$21,986Arts & Culture$6,665Philanthropy$4,512Animals$4,500Education$4,500Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $19,986 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $18,469 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBay State Community Services Inc: $14,964 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Athletic Academy Incorporated: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOPEWELL INC: $6,883 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $6,665 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $4,790 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $4,512 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKitty Connection Inc: $4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MIDAS COLLABORATIVE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARNOLD L ANDERSON HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way Of Massach…The New England Patri…Liberty Mutual Founda…Eversource Energy Fou…Arbella Insurance Fou…Paypal Charitable Giv…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Bertram D Blaisdell Tua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bertram D Blaisdell Tua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 39%
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Bay State Community Services Inc: 76% of income from government
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Boston City Singers Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 23 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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