· Private foundation
Boston Arts Summer Institute 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| ARTS EMERSON | $15,000 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATER | $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 (FY21–21, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
EMERSON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $419k · revenue +38%
BOSTON BALLET INC5× · 2018–2022 · $41k · revenue +36%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $20k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- BCBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +31%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $20k
- CSCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INCone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +20%
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.
Boston court creates and nurtures innovative, boundary-pushing art that invokes the power of collective imagination to illuminate our common humanity.
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The BPO was formed in 1979 to provide opportunities for an evolving community of amateur student and professional players to perform together present challenging classical repertoire & enhance the publics awareness & understanding of this…
Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.
Speakeasy produces intimate, entertaining plays and musicals that are new to boston and compel thoughtful conversation. we champion new talent and future arts leaders, alongside a diverse community of experienced local theatre…
The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
To broaden experience, knowledge and enjoyment of every style of new music by embracing the full range of today's compositional activity and giving voice to music that might otherwise not be heard.
The bostonian society sustains the old state house and its collections to explore the vital debates about self-government that were sparked here during boston's revolutionary era and that still animate our civic life today.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 25 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 EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE RECORD COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON JEWISH FILM 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: Boston Foundation Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Arts Summer Institute 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.
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- The Record Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music 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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