· Public charity
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.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 35 grants below total $1,095,304 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,246,898 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $151,594 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD FOR FREE | $370,342 |
| FAIR FOODS | $134,683 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $85,787 |
| Individual grant recipient | $57,725 |
| CHELSEA SALVATION ARMY | $48,769 |
| FOOD LINK | $46,923 |
| VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000 | $34,683 |
| BRAZILLIAN WORK CENTER | $32,214 |
| LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $25,684 |
| HEALTH WALTHAM | $19,613 |
| HEET TIME OF CHARGE | $15,864 |
| ROSE'S BOUNTY FOOD PANRY | $15,164 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,051 |
| CENTRE ST FOOD PANTRY | $14,966 |
| LYNN SALVATION ARMY | $14,546 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…
To supply the necessary food to needy residents
To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.
our goal is to alleviate hunger through providing healthy foods as well as basic hygiene supplies. We respond also to specific food needs caused by medical and religious requirements.
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
To engage, educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community.
The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…
To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity
To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.
Full belly foods purchases food from farms and wholesalers and donates the food to low-income communities across the country.
The digger foods, inc.'s mission is to make local, organic, and seasonal food available to everyone in the local area. in september 2022, the organization launched a local food delivery program in and around brockton. our goal is to…
Our mission is to provide nutritous food and essential non-food items for those in need residing in north berwick, berwick, south berwick, lebanon and surrounding areas. we promise to offer our services with love and respect, and in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salem Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return. 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 31 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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.
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 FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Waltham Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds DANIEL'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
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 · 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
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 Boston Area Gleaners 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.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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.