· Private foundation
Boston Bullpen Project 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 $10k41 grants · $122k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $169k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Social Equity Access Fund | $97,479 |
| Open Sky | $32,263 |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless | $26,618 |
| Womenss Lunch Place | $19,258 |
| Foundation To Be Named Later | $16,406 |
| One Family | $14,497 |
| Boston Area Rape Crisis Center | $13,546 |
| BMC Immigrant and Refugee Health Center | $12,537 |
| Inner City Weightlifting | $11,557 |
| Brookline Center for Comm Mental Health | $11,512 |
| Office of Veteran Services | $10,840 |
| La Colaborativa | $9,803 |
| Womens Money Matters | $9,372 |
| Elders Living at Home | $8,679 |
| Boston Community Pediatrics | $8,676 |
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 (FY18–24, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC5× · 2020–2024 · $115k · revenue +54%- OFONE FAMILY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $88k · revenue +25%
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $84k · revenue +221%
Funded once
- HPHABITAT PLUS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +69%
- JIJEREMIAH'S INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +35%
- PIPay it Forwardone grant, 2018 · $2k
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words 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.
Your grantees are a median of 28 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 80 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 BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DUET INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge Forward Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries
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 Bullpen Project 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.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Habitat Plus Inc — 50% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Fish Family Foundation — 22% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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.