· Public charity
Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc
To assist charitable organizations that demonstrate a commitment to enhancing the quality of life for children and their families throughout new england.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 94 grants below total $3,053,179 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,335,120 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,281,941 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $162k
- $10k–50k48 grants · $865k
- $50k–250k17 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS HOCKEY INC | $239,044 |
| PROFESSIONAL FIRE FIGHTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE TRUST | $210,264 |
| WARRIOR FOR LIFE FUND | $161,939 |
| SCORE HOCKEY INC | $155,000 |
| HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC (THE) | $151,520 |
| 22 MOHWAKS CORP | $137,912 |
| HEROES CUP HOCKEY INC | $120,117 |
| MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $102,857 |
| COMMUNITY CONCEPTS INC | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB GREATER NASHUA EPDNC | $100,000 |
| LA METRO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EPBPH | $100,000 |
| BOSTON BRUINS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC | $99,346 |
| THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION (THE) | $88,168 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC | $85,937 |
| SPAM BENEVOLENT FUND INC | $74,239 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
149 repeat relationships — 64 still active in FY2025, 85 since wound down; 25 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $464k 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
- HHHEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $2.4M · revenue +50% · 92% of their budget
- MHMASSACHUSETTS HOCKEY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.2M · revenue +39% · 28% of their budget
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- KSKAPPA SIGMA FRATERNITYone grant, 2023 · $275k
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
- 1C100 CLUB OF BUFFALO INCone grant, 2023 · $231k · 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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Murray Family Charitable Foundation. 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 29 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 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
288 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. 288 of the 327 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HEALING HEROES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE THOMAS E SMITH FIGHT TO CURE PARALYSIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EOD WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Coalition of Polices ↗
- Who funds THE CAMERON M NEELY FOUNDATION FOR CANCER CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SCORE HOCKEY INC ↗
- Who funds 22 MOHAWKS CORP ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GARDEN NEIGHBORHOOD CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds 100 CLUB OF BUFFALO INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HAT TRICK INC ↗
- Who funds SPAM BENEVOLENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Concepts Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND QUALITY CARE ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NHL FOUNDATION US INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS DOWN SYNDROME CONGRESS INC ↗
- Who funds Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ↗
- Who funds GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds ACT LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
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.
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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 Charitable Foundation 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.
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Spam Benevolent Fund Inc — 66% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Usa Warriors Ice Hockey Program Inc Usawihp — 37% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Massachusetts Hockey Inc — 12% of income from government
- 22 Mohawks Corp — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Federation for Children Wspecial Needs — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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