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· Charitable trust

Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office

To fund other charitable organizations which engage in charitable scientific, literary, or educational purposes.

$141k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$141k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$12MFood & Nutrition$6.2MHealth$3.3MHousing & Shelter$2.2MEducation$2.1MCommunity Improvement$1.9MYouth Development$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$141,161
Median grant
1
States reached
$673k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT$141,161
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $6.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $446k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $79k → 16%HOPE & COMFORT INC: $50k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $750k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $64k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $50k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $50k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $50k → 16%GREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER INC: $171k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $251k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $141k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC (BCNC): $104k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25k → 16%AFRICAN COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF NEW ENGLAND: $83k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $50k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $50k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $50k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $50k → 16%THE URBAN LEAGUE OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $35k → 16%TRANSGENDER EMERGENCY FUND OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $28k → 16%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES: $155k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS: $77k → 16%CAPE VERDEAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $30k → 16%PROJECT RESTORE US: $200k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $137k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $626k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS: $500k → 16%LENA PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $88k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $70k → 16%CARIBBEAN YOUTH CLUB: $55k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $50k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE INC: $49k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $39k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $35k → 16%SMART FROM THE START INC: $35k → 16%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER INC: $35k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $28k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $655k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $50k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA: $42k → 16%TRANSGENDER EMERGENCY FUND OF MA INC: $38k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $36k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFITS: $75k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFITS: $68k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON ASSOCIATION OF NON-PROFITS: $41k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON EN ACCION INC: $29k → 16%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.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$12M · 61 repeat orgs$20M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +43% for those funded once.

61 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 60 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
234

Total granted

$12M
$20M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+43%

Still filing today

80%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2.3M · revenue +1%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $814k · revenue +36%
  • AF
    ABOUT FRESH INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $683k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • BA
    BOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -23%
  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • BA
    BOSTON AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP (FISCAL SPONSOR CASA MYRNA)
    one grant, 2021 · $872k
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
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
2
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
3
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
6
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
9
Boston Senior Home Care Inc

Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.

—
10
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
11
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

—
12
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project 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

196 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. 196 of the 297 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
66
Early backer (in before they grew)
181/196
Grantees still filing
150/196
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,250,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $1,000,000 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESSBOSTON AREA DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PARTNERSHIP (FISCAL SPONSOR CASA MYRNA): $871,860 · OtherBOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $620,000 · OtherMA LEAGUE OF COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS: $585,000 · OtherFAIR FOODS INC: $575,150 · OtherETHOS MEALS ON WHEELS: $559,150 · Other+110 more: $9,997,392 · Other+110 morePINE STREET INN INC: $814,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INCRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $654,600 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER …COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $648,604 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INCYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $525,072 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN …SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $500,439 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIO…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $250,894 · Human Services+30 more: $2,681,977 · Human Services+30 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $750,000 · HealthBOSTON ME…NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $439,207 · HealthNEIGHBORH…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $300,500 · HealthBRIDGE OV…DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $168,196 · HealthDIMOCK CO…Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $135,000 · HealthWhittier …HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $120,000 · Health+10 more: $586,436 · Health+10 moreABOUT FRESH INC: $682,806 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $680,500 · Food & NutritionEASTIE FARM INC: $317,041 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULS: $105,975 · Food & NutritionThe Food Project Inc: $86,605 · Food & NutritionRESCUING LEFTOVER CUISINE INC: $69,100 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $54,834 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC: $1,000,000 · EducationRIZE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 · EducationFreedom House Inc: $69,184 · EducationGILBERT ALBERT COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $63,115 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $53,233 · Education+3 more: $123,000 · EducationCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $551,688 · Community ImprovementURBAN GUILD INC: $318,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $144,773 · Community ImprovementGROVE HALL NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $132,000 · Community ImprovementSOMALI DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC: $67,328 · Community ImprovementAFRICAN BRIDGE NETWORK: $56,000 · Community ImprovementSTEAM AHEAD INC: $47,990 · Community Improvement+2 more: $76,100 · Community ImprovementBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $423,533 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $105,399 · EmploymentNEWMARKET COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $92,250 · EmploymentWORK INCORPORATED: $50,550 · EmploymentTHE NEIGHBORHOOD NETWORK CENTER INC: $44,000 · EmploymentYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $35,440 · EmploymentThe People's Academy Inc: $29,100 · Employment
Other$16,458,552Human Services$6,075,586Health$2,499,339Food & Nutrition$1,996,861Education$1,558,532Community Improvement$1,393,879Employment$780,272

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $2,250,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBOSTON AFTER SCHOOL & BEYOND INC: $1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $814,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $750,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABOUT FRESH INC: $682,806 over 2y, 18% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $680,500 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $654,600 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $648,604 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $551,688 over 1y, 11% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $545,625 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $525,072 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS: $500,439 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION: $439,207 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $423,533 over 2y, 22% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $337,500 over 2y, 19% of budgetURBAN GUILD INC: $318,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC: $317,041 over 2y, 36% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $303,437 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $300,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC MARKET ASSOCIATION INC: $257,846 over 1y, 14% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $250,894 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRIZE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC: $250,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $201,340 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $191,462 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $191,161 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHINESE GOLDEN AGE CENTER: $171,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $168,196 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $157,892 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $155,278 over 1y, 17% of budgetBMA TENPOINT INC: $151,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $144,773 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $136,780 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetWhittier Street Health Center Committee Inc: $135,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $128,160 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC: $120,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSPOONFULS: $105,975 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC: $105,399 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $104,099 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $102,743 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $99,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $95,667 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetNEWMARKET COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $92,250 over 2y, 16% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $90,501 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHAITIAN-AMERICANS UNITED INC: $86,820 over 2y, 13% 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.

Liberty Mutual Founda…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…Children's Hospital C…Bushrod H Campbell & …Mass General Brigham …Rockland Trust Charit…Health Resources in A…Barr FoundationThe Cabot Family Char…
Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA126.6× affinity71 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Barr Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust

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 Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 380%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Bowdoin Street Health Center Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Community Caring Clinic Inc: 99% of income from government
  • Brighton Marine Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Work Incorporated: 76% of income from government
  • Project Right: 71% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc: 66% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 50% of income from government
  • The Boston Home Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: 44% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • La Alianza Hispana Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc: 41% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Community Workshops Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Harbor Health Services Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning 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
  • Mount Olives Community Center Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% 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
  • Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Upham's Corner Health Committee Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Building Audacity: 24% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Mattapan Community Health Center Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Caribbean Integration Community: 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Tifereth Raphael Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Maverick Landing Community Services Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Boston After School & Beyond Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • North End Community Health Committee: 13% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dothouse Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • South Boston Community Health Center in: 10% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • South Boston En Accion Inc: 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation: 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Codman Square Health Center Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bma Tenpoint Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Neighborhealth Corporation: 4% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Urban Guild Inc: 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Company One Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
38get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely on government for over half their income
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 Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office?

Find your warmest path to Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office 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 297 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home