· Public charity
Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc
The association's primary exempt purpose is to raise funds and to donate these funds to charitable causes.
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.
The 8 grants below total $125,077 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $139,975 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,898 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND | $35,081 |
| FRIENDS OF POP WHALEN | $21,804 |
| MELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC | $18,139 |
| TRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC | $16,836 |
| JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP | $10,881 |
| MEMORIALS AND MUSEUM AT PUGZEES FARM INC | $9,200 |
| MATT LIGHT FOUNDATION | $7,830 |
| WARWICK JUNIOR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $5,306 |
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 (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
To provide its members an organized curriculum to play hockey
Youth hockey program of newton, ma
To provide under-represented youth access to the sport of hockey, without cost, in a safe and fun environment; together with all lawful other charitable purposes.
The organization's mission is to develop and encourage sportsmanship among all players, encourage and improve standards of hockey in the state of maine, unite all maine amateur youth hockey teams into one association, conduct annual…
Charlestown youth hockey association is an organization that maintains and runs a hockey program open to all interested youth in the charlestown neighborhood of boston ma. the program is designed to develop skating and hockey skills…
To promote and support the physical, mental and character development of young people in the sport of ice hockey.
To operate a hockey program for school age children.
Foster the advancement, development and encourage participation in the sport of ice hockey within the commonwealth of massachusetts.
Provide developmental skills for the children of wilmington ma to be able to ice skate and learn the skills necessary to play hockey
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wes Tuttle Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND ↗
- Who funds WES TUTTLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF POP WHALEN ↗
- Who funds MELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM EDNA INC ↗
- Who funds THE JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WARWICK JUNIOR AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOCKEY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MW FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Bruins Alumni Association 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% 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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