· Private foundation
Boston Baptist Social Union
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $576k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $171k
- $250k+1 grant · $263k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE AMERICAN BAPTIST CHURCHES OF MASSACHUSETTS | $263,300 |
| RUGGLES BAPTIST CHURCH | $70,990 |
| MESSIAH BAPTIST CHURCH | $50,000 |
| FIRST NEPALI BAPTIST CHURCH OF SOMERVILLE | $50,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH LYNN | $40,000 |
| BOSTON MISSIONARY BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER | $35,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF JAMAICA PLAIN | $35,000 |
| OVERSEAS BURMESE CHRISTION FELLOWSHIP | $33,100 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF MEDFORD | $30,460 |
| THE BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| MIRACLE MILE MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH OF LOWELL | $30,000 |
| BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| LOWELL INTERNATIONAL CHURCH | $30,000 |
| TWELFTH BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,300 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $386k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MBMASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST MULTICULTURAL MINISTRIES7× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +180% · 78% of their budget
- BMBOSTON MISSIONARY BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +671% · 37% of their budget
- BPBOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES INC7× · 2017–2025 · $189k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $106k
- S1SAMH 12TH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- LPLINCOLN PARK BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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.
To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
Biblical counseling
Church
Education, Humanitarian, Community outreach and evangelism ministry. Provide Orphan Care, Train Youth in Career Paths, Train Pastors and Others in Bible School, Prison Ministry, Provide Elementary School for about 300 Children
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 71 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 MASSACHUSETTS BAPTIST MULTICULTURAL MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MISSIONARY BAPTIST COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN YOUTH CONFERENCE AT OCEAN PARK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITEBOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Remember Those in Captivity Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY STRINGS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds COMPASS POINT MINISTRIES INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Imago Dei Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Church Home Society Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · Protein Foundation · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Network for Good
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boston Baptist Social Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Baptist Social Union. Bigger dots raise more.
- Communities Together Inc: 15% of income from government
- City Strings United Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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