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Boston Area Gleaners Inc

Boston area gleaners is committed to increasing access to fresh fruits and vegetables across our communities while supporting our region's farms and reducing systemic food waste.

$1.2M
Granted FY2021
35
Itemized grants FY2021
35
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$1.1M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$12,248
Largest grant, FY2021
$370,342
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$6.7M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food for Free Committee Inc$370,34253%
Fair Foods Inc$134,6834n/a
Lazarus House Inc$85,78751%
Food Link Inc$46,92341%
Healthy Waltham Inc$19,61311%
City of Salem$13,9711n/a
Brookline Food Pantry Inc$12,24810%
Newton Food Pantry Inc$10,74311%
Daniel's Table Inc$7,95141%
Ccf Ministries Inc$7,0641n/a
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All grantees of Boston Area Gleaners Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food for Free Committee Inc$370,34253%
Fair Foods Inc$134,6834n/a
Lazarus House Inc$85,78751%
Food Link Inc$46,92341%
Healthy Waltham Inc$19,61311%
City of Salem$13,9711n/a
Brookline Food Pantry Inc$12,24810%
Newton Food Pantry Inc$10,74311%
Daniel's Table Inc$7,95141%
Ccf Ministries Inc$7,0641n/a
The Urban Food Initiative Inc$6,77730%
UTEC Inc$6,24730%
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I$6,12950%

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($367k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Boston Area Gleaners Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFood for Free Committee Inc: $370,342 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetLazarus House Inc: $85,787 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFood Link Inc: $46,923 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHealthy Waltham Inc: $19,613 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBrookline Food Pantry Inc: $12,248 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNewton Food Pantry Inc: $10,743 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDaniel's Table Inc: $7,951 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Urban Food Initiative Inc: $6,777 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetUTEC Inc: $6,247 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $6,129 over 5y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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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 FoundationMA39.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Torrice Family Charitable Trust · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable 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.

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About Boston Area Gleaners Inc

How much does Boston Area Gleaners Inc give?
Boston Area Gleaners Inc reported 35 itemized grants totaling $1,095,304, out of $1,246,898 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does Boston Area Gleaners Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (64%), Human Services (12%), Housing & Shelter (8%).
Who are Boston Area Gleaners Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: Food for Free Committee Inc ($370k), Fair Foods Inc ($135k), Lazarus House Inc ($86k).
Which funders back the same organizations as Boston Area Gleaners Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Arbella Insurance Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is Boston Area Gleaners Inc based?
Boston Area Gleaners Inc is based in MA.

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 2021, released 2021. 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 $4.6M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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