· Private foundation
Boston Fatherless & Widows Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $269k
- $250k+1 grant · $277k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $277,075 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL | $25,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY CAMP WONDERLAND | $20,000 |
| BROOKVIEW HOUSE | $17,000 |
| CASA ESPERANZA INC | $15,000 |
| WALKER THERAPUTIC & EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS | $15,000 |
| CASA MYRNA | $15,000 |
| Women's Bar Foundation | $15,000 |
| THE SECOND STEP | $12,000 |
| Jewish Family and Children's Service | $10,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
| YOUTH GUIDANCE | $10,000 |
| ST MARYS CENTER FOR WOMEN AND | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $267k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
26 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $100k · revenue +141%
- WIWALKER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $87k · revenue +61%
- CMCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC6× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NCNUESTRA COMUNIDAD DEVELOPMENT CORPone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +18%
- YYWone grant, 2022 · $15k
- HRHUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INCone grant, 2020 · $8k · revenue -2%
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.
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.
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…
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
To empower and support positive choices for all and to educate and take action in the community for the prevention of oppression and violence.
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.
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Caspar's mission is to provide community-based services to those affected by substance use disorders. caspar offers a comprehensive array of outreach, shelter, stabilization, residential aftercare, and prevention services to meet the needs…
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
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,…
To aid in the support of shelter for survivors of domestic violence on a transitional and long term basis.
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 37 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds COMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds NUESTRA COMUNIDAD DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CASA ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Boston Fatherless & Widows Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Fatherless & Widows Society. Bigger dots raise more.
- Casa Esperanza Inc: 59% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% 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
- Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc: 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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