· Private foundation
Bond Bros 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k32 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $16,500 |
| MARY & JOHN ELLIOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| CRISTO REY BOSTON CORPORATE WORK STUDY | $12,500 |
| JIMMY FUND MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT | $10,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $10,000 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| BRYANT UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON | $7,500 |
| MASS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS | $7,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $6,000 |
| MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MAYFLOWER COUNCIL BSA | $5,000 |
| UMASS AMHERST FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE HUNDRED YEAR ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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 +38% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 13 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; $49k 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
- WIWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $141k · revenue +31%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation5× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +69%
- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC3× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- CWCONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE INITIATIVE 2one grant, 2018 · $25k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +35%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICSone grant, 2017 · $15k
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 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.
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.
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.…
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…
Tertiary care academic medical center
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…
Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adam Bullen Memorial Foundation. 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 37 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 1% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 155 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 WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
- Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Mary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds MAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds THE ENGINEERING CENTER EDUCATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual 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 Bond Bros 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Mental Health Connecticut Inc — 82% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- South Cove Community Health Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Bsa Foundation — 9% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- World Unity Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College 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.
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