· Private foundation
Boston Center for Blind Children Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $221k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $40,500 |
| CARROL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $27,000 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS | $25,000 |
| ASSN OF BLIND CITIZENS | $23,000 |
| WHEELOCK FAMILY THEATER | $20,000 |
| LOWELL ASSN FOR THE BLIND | $15,000 |
| POLUS CENTER | $15,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $13,050 |
| NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY | $12,050 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| ADAPTIVE SPORT OF NEW ENGLAND | $10,000 |
| THE SEEING EYE INC | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ROWING | $5,000 |
| LEARNING ALLY | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $208k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND9× · 2017–2025 · $359k · revenue +49%
- TCTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC9× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue +53%
- NBNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $205k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- BRBOSTON RESILIENCY FUNDone grant, 2020 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $23k
- CVCANTERBURY VISION CAREone grant, 2024 · $109
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.
To improve the visual health of populations through excellence in collaborative and community-oriented patient care, education and research.
BLIND, Inc. was founded by blind Minnesotans who believe that, given the proper training and opportunity, blind people can lead normal, independent, and fulfilled lives. We believe that blindness is respectable and that with proper…
The mission of the Blind Children's Center, Inc. is to prepare infants, toddlers and preschoolers of all abilities to thrive through inclusive, family-focused early childhood education, with a specialized focus on children who are blind or…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Audio Journal, Incorporated's mission in Central Massachusetts is to connect individuals who are blind, visually impaired or have an inability to access printed material, to their communities through broadcasting of local news, information…
Description of organization mission the schepens eye research institute ("schepens") fights blindness by developing new technologies, therapies and knowledge to retain and restore vision. through a continuum of discovery, the institute…
Beyond blindness empowers children with visual impairments and other disabilities to achieve their fullest potential.
Able provides audio and braille transcription services to increase access to a wide variety of information for persons who are blind, visually impaired, or print disabled. materials can be produced in braille, tactile, or audio digital…
To positively transform the lives of those with vision loss. (See Schedule O)
Provide innovative training and tools for people who are blind or visually impaired to help them achieve their goals and dreams
The mission of the florida center for the blind is to foster hope, confidence and independence in individuals with visual impairments; and to educate the community about preventing vision loss.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 25 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 PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF BLIND CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE OF OPTOMETRY ↗
- Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Paul Center for Learning & Recreation Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SPACE OUR PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Learning Ally Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEEING EYE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CENTER FOR COMMUNICATION INC BEVERLY SCHOOL FOR THE DEAF ↗
- Who funds Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE SPORTS NEW ENGLAND 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 · The Peabody Foundation Inc · The Gibney Family Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Verizon Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Center for Blind Children 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.
- Lowell Association for the Blind Inc — 49% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- The New England College of Optometry — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press 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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