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Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc

The association's primary exempt purpose is to raise funds and to donate these funds to charitable causes.

$163k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$29k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$103kPhilanthropy$32kYouth Development$19kHealth$19kEducation$16kArts & Culture$11kHuman Services$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$179
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $107,343, the rows itemized in this filing. The $163,331 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $55,988 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
$14,564
Median grant
3
States reached
$424k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC$28,774
JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP$20,793
THE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC$15,776
FRIENDS OF KINGSWOOD HOCKEY$14,564
TEAM IMPACT INC$10,196
OPERATION DELTA DOG INC$8,997
MEMORIALS AND MUSEUM AT PUGZEES FARM INC$8,243
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TEAM IMPACT INC: $10k → 7%MW FUND INC: $2k → 8%TEAM EDNA: $15k → 10%TRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $17k → 11%MEMORIALS AND MUSEUM AT PUGZEES FARM INC: $9k → 12%BRUINS FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%THE ALS ASSOCIATION: $250 → 14%JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP: $21k → 13%THE LIGHT FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $35k → 10%THE VOICE LIBRARY-FAMILY STORY PROJECT: $179 → 5%OPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $9k → 7%FRIENDS OF KINGSWOOD HOCKEY: $15k → 9%WENTWORTH-DOUGLASS HOSPITAL: $225 → 9%FRIENDS OF POP WHALEN: $22k → 9%CAMP SUNSHINE: $500 → 7%DANA FARBER JIMMY FUND: $1k → 7%BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $29k → 8%HOCKEY CARES FOR KIDS: $3k → 10%MEMORIALS AND MUSEUM AT PUGZEES FARM INC: $8k → 12%THE SPORTS MUSEUM: $2k → 16%JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP: $11k → 13%MATT LIGHT FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $5k → 10%MELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $18k → 8%THE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC: $16k → 16%MATT LIGHT FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%WES TUTTLE FOUNDATION: $32k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MA
OH
RI
VA
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$107k · 4 repeat orgs$203k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
17

Total granted

$107k
$124k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+0%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’23’24’25
Recreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND
    2× · 2023–2024 · $41k · revenue +76%
  • TJ
    THE JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $32k · revenue +44%
  • THE LIGHT FOUNDATION
    3× · 2018–2024 · $17k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • WT
    WES TUTTLE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $32k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF POP WHALEN
    one grant, 2024 · $22k · revenue -25%
  • MY
    MELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue +0%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Northern Berkshire Youth Hockey League Inc
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2
Newton Youth Hockey Inc

Youth hockey program of newton, ma

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3
Maine Amateur Hockey Association

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Marshfield Youth Hockey Inc

To operate a hockey program for school age children.

Recreation & Sports
5
Little Falls Youth Hockey Inc

The mission of the little falls youth hockey is to instill the core values of sportsmanship, respect, integrity, pursuit of excellence, enjoyment, loyalty and teamwork within all of our players in the sport of hockey.

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6
Massachusetts Hockey Inc

Foster the advancement, development and encourage participation in the sport of ice hockey within the commonwealth of massachusetts.

Recreation & Sports
7
Greater Springfield Youth Hockey Association Inc

To promote and support the physical, mental and character development of young people in the sport of ice hockey.

Youth Development
8
Andover Hockey Association Inc

To operate as a youth hockey league for approximately 700 boys and girls in adover, masschusetts in accordance with the bylaws and exempt purposes

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9
New England Yankee Hockey Conference Inc - Usa Hockey Ne Dist

The promotion of the sport of ice hockey including player and coach development, regardless of gender.

Recreation & Sports
10
Navy Youth Hockey Association Inc

To facilitate the accessibility of ice time to provide an opportunity for youth to engage in recreation and to teach ice hockey skills & sportsmanship

Youth Development
11
Medway Amateur Hockey Association
Education
12
Monmouth Youth Hockey Association Inc

To provide its members an organized curriculum to play hockey

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wes Tuttle Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
12/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $40,535 · Recreation & SportsWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUNDFRIENDS OF POP WHALEN: $21,804 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF POP WHALENMELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $18,139 · Recreation & SportsMELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $16,836 · Recreation & SportsTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INCFRIENDS OF KINGSWOOD HOCKEY: $14,564 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF KINGSWOOD HOCKEYWARWICK JUNIOR AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,306 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $500 · Recreation & SportsWES TUTTLE FOUNDATION INC: $31,815 · PhilanthropyWES TUTTLE FOUNDATION INCBOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $28,774 · PhilanthropyBOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INCTHE LIGHT FOUNDATION: $16,952 · PhilanthropyTHE LIGHT FOUNDATIONTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC: $15,776 · PhilanthropyTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INCTEAM IMPACT INC: $10,196 · PhilanthropyTEAM IMPACT INC+1 more: $1,800 · PhilanthropyTHE JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $31,674 · EducationTHE JASON R…MEMORIALS AND MUSEUM AT PUGZEES FARM INC: $17,443 · OtherMEMORIALS…SR BERNADETTE O'REILLY SCHOLARSHIP FUNDROSSBROOK HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherSR BERNAD…MW FUND INC: $1,500 · OtherMW FUND I…+3 more: $904 · OtherTEAM EDNA INC: $15,218 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $8,997 · AnimalsHOCKEY CARES INC: $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,750 · Arts & Culture
Recreation & Sports$117,684Philanthropy$105,313Education$31,674Other$24,847Health$16,468Animals$8,997Youth Development$2,500Arts & Culture$1,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND: $40,535 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE JASON RITCHIE MEMORIAL HOCKEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $31,674 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF POP WHALEN: $21,804 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetMELROSE YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $18,139 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE LIGHT FOUNDATION: $16,952 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRIBORO YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION INC: $16,836 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC: $15,776 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTEAM EDNA INC: $15,218 over 1y, 69% of budgetFRIENDS OF KINGSWOOD HOCKEY: $14,564 over 1y, 30% of budgetOPERATION DELTA DOG INC: $8,997 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWARWICK JUNIOR AMATEUR HOCKEY ASSOCIATION: $5,306 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHOCKEY CARES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $1,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMW FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE4.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Sports Museum of New England Inc: 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to Boston Bruins Alumni Association Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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