· Private foundation
Blackey Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAINT ELIZABETH'S OF HUNGRY | $6,000 |
| BE LIKE BRIT | $5,000 |
| CITY SERVICE INTERNATIONAL (JARASOT | $3,300 |
| HOUSEHOLD GOODS | $3,052 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES | $2,500 |
| FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST | $2,186 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| BLESSED TRINITY PARISH | $1,270 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $1,250 |
| VOICES AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $1,250 |
| ALS ONE | $1,029 |
| SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL | $1,000 |
| NORWICH UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| THE MATTHEW ZONGHETTI SCHOLARSHIP F | $1,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $813 |
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 (FY17–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 30 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- HGHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +50%
- NUNorwich University8× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +20%
- FPFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HFHabitat for Humanityone grant, 2019 · $2k
- COChurch of St Isadoreone grant, 2017 · $1k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Education and Research
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 university of massachusetts amherst foundation leads and supports private fund raising on behalf of the faculty, staff and students of the amherst campus. its volunteer board of directors provides leadership for the development of…
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Teagans Ride. 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 168 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 BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds Norwich University ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DYNAMIC CATHOLIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Project Just Because Inc ↗
- Who funds STOW COMMUNITY CHEST INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation 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 Blackey 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.
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Norwich University — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Als One Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.