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Bma Tenpoint Inc

To help member pastors provide faith-based solutions to the needs and social problems that confront the residents of the communities of boston.

$104k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Community Improvement$251kFood & Nutrition$222kHuman Services$68kYouth Development$65kEducation$33kHousing & Shelter$11kRecreation & Sports$11kReligion$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $55,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $104,288 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $49,288 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$55,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$403k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY UNIDO$55,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY UNIDO: $55k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT INC: $7k → 16%GREENWOOD SHALOM OUTREACH INC: $9k → 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.

29%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 7 repeat orgs$486k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
27

Total granted

$194k
$431k

Still filing today

0%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • IG
    IBLOSSOM GIRLS PROGRAM
    2× · 2022–2023 · $54k
  • MS
    MORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH
    2× · 2020–2021 · $31k
  • EC
    ELIOT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ROXBURY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS
    2× · 2020–2021 · $30k

Funded once

  • IG
    ITHRIVE GAMES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $251k · revenue -76%
  • DC
    DIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue +18%
  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF HAITIAN EVANGELICA OF NE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
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
Vine Street Community Center Inc

Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA

Community Improvement
2
Hoops Collaborative Youth Development Pr

The Hoops Collaborative Development Program Inc is a community-based basketball and educational equity organization that teaches basketball skill development, physical training and life skills to young people. The primary goal of The Hoops…

Youth Development
3
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
4
United Somali Youth Inc

preparing youth of today

—
5
Drive Boston Community Resources Inc

Mitigating community violence

Crime & Legal
6
Timothy Smith Network

Timothy Smith Network empowers organizations and individuals to effectively use and have access to cutting edge technology.

Education
7
Beat the Street Community Center Inc

Engage members in activities that help develope discipline,team skills, self-confidence, self - respect and respect for others. to broaden horizons by making them aware of opportunities that exist outside of their immediate environment. to…

Recreation & Sports
8
Community Call

Community Call provides civic engagement learning and opportunity to marginalized youth in Boston and Cambridge

Education
9
Round Table Inc

Provides structural and educational activities for low income youth and families in Boston. Builds, grows and maintains urban gardens with fresh vegetables for low income community. The grant also helped our community center and it's…

Youth Development
10
Bring It

After school programs targeting immigrant populations

Philanthropy
11
Pursuit of Prosperity Strategies Program Inc

Working with trouble youth

Youth Development
12
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ithrive Games Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 35 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ITHRIVE GAMES FOUNDATION: $250,991 · OtherITHRIVE GAMES FOUNDATIONIBLOSSOM GIRLS PROGRAM: $54,440 · OtherIBLOSSOM GIRLS PROGRAMMORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCH: $31,000 · OtherMORNING STAR BAPTIST CHURCHELIOT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ROXBURY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS: $30,000 · OtherELIOT CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF ROXBURY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTSTWELFTH BAPTIST CHURCH INC: $24,000 · OtherCONCORD BABTIST CHURCH: $19,000 · OtherFAITH CHRISTIAN CHURCH INTERNATIONAL INC: $18,500 · Other+15 more: $115,141 · Other+15 moreCAPE VERDEAN COMMUNITY UNIDO INC: $55,000 · Human ServicesCAPE VERDEA…Greenwood Shalom Outreach Community Inc: $8,500 · Human ServicesGreenwood S…PROJECT RIGHT: $6,972 · Human ServicesPROJECT RIG…No Books No Ball Basketball Program a Non-Profit Corporation: $6,720 · EducationALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION: $6,000 · EducationFreedom House Inc: $5,600 · EducationMATTAPANGREATER BOSTON TECHNOLOGY LEARNING CENTER INC: $5,000 · EducationDIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyQUEST TRAUMA HEALING CENTERS: $6,898 · Youth DevelopmentNubian United Benevolent International Association: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER COUNCIL INC: $6,000 · Recreation & SportsPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $5,756 · Recreation & SportsCASTLE SQUARE TENANTS ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$543,072Human Services$70,472Education$23,320Philanthropy$14,000Youth Development$11,898Recreation & Sports$11,756Housing & Shelter$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Shalom Outreach Community Inc: $8,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPROJECT RIGHT: $6,972 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetQUEST TRAUMA HEALING CENTERS: $6,898 over 1y, 56% of budgetNo Books No Ball Basketball Program a Non-Profit Corporation: $6,720 over 1y, 37% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $6,248 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER COUNCIL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $5,756 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFreedom House Inc: $5,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNubian United Benevolent International Association: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCASTLE SQUARE TENANTS ORGANIZATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Boston After School &…Boston Charitable Tru…Yawkey Foundation IIBarr FoundationFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA19.4× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Yawkey Foundation II · Barr Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Bma Tenpoint Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bma Tenpoint Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • Project Right: 71% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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How do I get to Bma Tenpoint Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bma Tenpoint Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 35 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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