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Bond Bros 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.

$265k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$403kEducation$349kYouth Development$82kEmployment$74kRecreation & Sports$67kPhilanthropy$64kHuman Services$30kArts & Culture$28kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $133k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $133k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$242k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAMP HARBOR VIEW$30,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$25,000
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$17,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$15,000
CRISTO REY BOSTON CORPORATE WORK STUDY$13,000
MARY & JOHN ELLIOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$12,500
BRIGHAM AND WOMENS HOSPITAL$10,000
SOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
MAYFLOWER COUNCIL BSA$7,500
MASS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS$7,000
NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL$6,000
MISSION SAFE$5,500
STONEHILL COLLEGE$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES$5,000
ROSE KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY$5,000
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 (FY17–25, $10k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HOUSING FAMILIES: $3k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $1k → 8%HOUSING FAMILIES: $1k → 8%RICHI CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
WV
GA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 65 repeat orgs$286k to everyone else

65 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
90

Total granted

$1.2M
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+31%

Still filing today

49%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
HealthEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentScience & TechOther
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

  • WI
    WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $158k · revenue +31%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +91%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • CW
    CONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE INITIATIVE 2
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +87%
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
2
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
3
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
4
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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5
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
6
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
7
Western New England University

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…

Education
8
Bentley University

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…

Education
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
10
Boston Medical Center-Brighton Corporation

To consistently provide excellent and accessible health care services to all in need of care, regardless of status or ability to pay. the corporation is committed to the urban population, to vulnerable populations within the community…

Health
11
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
12
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Medical Center Corporation; the most unlike its peers is The Hideo Sasaki 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

86 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. 86 of the 165 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/86
Grantees still filing
64/86
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARY & JOHN ELLIOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $66,000 · OtherMARY & JOHN ELLIOT CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONCRISTO REY BOSTON CORPORATE WORK STUDY: $43,500 · OtherCRISTO REY BOSTON CORPORATE WORK STUDYSOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $35,000 · OtherNEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL: $34,000 · OtherUMASS LOWELL: $33,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $31,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherCONSTRUCTION WORKFORCE INITIATIVE 2: $25,000 · Other+104 more: $440,000 · Other+104 moreWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $157,900 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF …STONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $50,000 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INCBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $36,000 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITYPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRA…North Bennet Street School: $15,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $12,500 · Education+11 more: $22,200 · Education+11 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $101,750 · HealthChildren's Hospital Co…FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $35,000 · HealthFOUNDATION OF THE MASS…FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $30,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,150 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Ins…Mary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation: $20,000 · HealthMary and John Elliot C…Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $18,000 · HealthWhittier Street Health…NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $15,000 · HealthTHE CSL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 · Health+16 more: $52,300 · Health+16 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $5,500 · Youth Development+1 more: $1,750 · Youth DevelopmentMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureBSA FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSuicide Awareness Voices of Education: $5,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePRESERVATION MASS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $15,000 · Environment
Other$738,000Education$313,600Health$305,200Youth Development$94,750Arts & Culture$37,500Food & Nutrition$15,000Environment$15,000

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 budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $157,900 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $101,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $20,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $15,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CSL FOUNDATION INC: $13,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE ENGINEERING CENTER EDUCATION TRUST: $11,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATING ENGINEERS LOCAL 4 CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBSA FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - NEEDHAM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PUERTO RICAN DAY PARADE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COVE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVATION MASS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetThe Houston Food Bank: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HUNDRED YEAR ASSOCIATION OF NY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE FOUNDATION: $3,400 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOBURN HOST LIONS CHARITIES INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • 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 BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MAYFLOWER COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Mary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CSL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FALLEN HEROES INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ENGINEERING CENTER EDUCATION TRUST ↗

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 IncSuffolk Cares Charita…American Tower Corpor…Cummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationThe Hamilton Company …Rockland Trust - East…Amelia Peabody Charit…Harvard Pilgrim Healt…Rockland Trust Charit…Liberty Mutual Founda…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA42.8× affinity24 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
5report 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.
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How do I get to Bond Bros Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Bond Bros Foundation 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 165 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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