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Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities.

$246M
Granted FY2025still arriving
2,375
Grants FY2025still arriving
49
States reached
$6.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$335MArts & Culture$188MPhilanthropy$185MHealth$143MHuman Services$73MEnvironment$67MCommunity Improvement$67MYouth Development$61MOther$0
02FY2025 · 2375 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2,375 grants below total $228,371,395, the rows itemized in this filing. The $246,453,204 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $18,081,809 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k236 grants · $1.7M
  • $10k–50k1366 grants · $28M
  • $50k–250k600 grants · $59M
  • $250k+173 grants · $140M
$25,000
Median grant
49
States reached
$2.1B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bank of America Charitable Gift Fund$6,645,940
Partners Healthcare System Inc$5,603,180
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund$5,376,841
Trustees of Tufts College$5,005,000
McLean Hospital$4,250,000
United Negro College Fund Inc$4,003,770
The Barack Obama Foundation$2,650,000
New Profit Inc$2,601,500
Embrace Boston Inc$2,543,023
Justice Catalyst Inc$2,500,000
Carbon Mapper Inc$2,500,000
United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc$2,273,084
Social Finance Inc$2,120,000
Greenlight Fund Inc$2,096,500
President and Fellows of Harvard College$2,050,763
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 (FY17–25, $65.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 82% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health Inc: $400k → 12%Immigrant Family Services Institute (IFSI-USA): $524k → 16%Full of Grace Foundation Inc: $1.8M → 8%Jewish Family Service of San Diego: $622k → 11%Youth Villages Foundation Inc: $500k → 17%Gather: $500k → 5%New Hampshire Catholic Charities Inc: $1.0M → 7%Jewish Family Service of San Diego: $605k → 11%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $1.5M → 20%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $1.1M → 20%Social Finance Inc: $4.5M → 16%Illinois Science and Technology Institute: $1.8M → 14%Social Finance Inc: $2.1M → 16%Social Finance Inc: $510k → 16%Britten Hartnett Tyler Foundation Inc: $383k → 7%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $2.3M → 17%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $2.0M → 17%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $1.5M → 17%Justice Catalyst Law Inc: $1.4M → 17%PRIME Coalition Inc: $950k → 8%PRIME Coalition Inc: $850k → 8%WEEMA International Inc: $1.4M → 8%WEEMA International Inc: $1.1M → 8%WEEMA International Inc: $1.0M → 8%WEEMA International Inc: $500k → 8%St Boniface Haiti Foundation: $397k → 8%St Boniface Haiti Foundation: $384k → 8%Pine Street Inn Inc: $647k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $516k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $508k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $461k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $428k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $420k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program: $412k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $400k → 16%Pine Street Inn Inc: $376k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $402k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $401k → 16%Network of Engaged International Donors Global Inc: $503k → 16%Action for Boston Community Development Inc: $586k → 16%Social Innovation Forum Inc: $428k → 16%College Bound Dorchester Inc: $540k → 16%Rian Immigrant Center Inc: $1.1M → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children Inc: $1.5M → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children Inc: $1.3M → 16%Rian Immigrant Center Inc: $467k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children Inc: $871k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children Inc: $486k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
SD
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
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AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2B · 1751 repeat orgs$44M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

1751 repeat relationships: 1179 still active in FY2025, 572 since wound down; 48 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1751
118

Total granted

$1.2B
$30M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+5%

Still filing today

91%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • BOSTON BALLET INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $24M · revenue +27%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +24%
  • AC
    AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +141%

Funded once

  • JD
    JUST DETENTION INTERNATIONAL
    one grant, 2022 · $2.0M · revenue -38% · 42% of their budget
  • DM
    DEMOCRACY MATTERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $1.9M · revenue +416% · 27% of their budget
  • IS
    ILLINOIS SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $1.8M · revenue -70% · 69% of their budget
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
Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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2
New England Lawboston

Education of students

Education
3
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
4
University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education
5
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

Mbr engages with public and private leaders to develop public policy solutions that enhance massachusetts' long-term competitive position and make it a highly-desirable place to do business within a global economy.

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6
New England Commission of Higher
Education
7
Boston Bar Association

To advance the highest standards of excellence for the legal profession, to facilitate access to justice, and to serve the community at large.

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8
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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9
The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education
10
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health
11
The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cathleen Stone Island Outward Bound. 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

1858 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1858 of the 2,000 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.

160
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
559
Early backer (in before they grew)
1816/1858
Grantees still filing
1404/1858
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

President and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,304,953 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Har…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $21,717,447 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF …AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $17,600,629 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEESYEAR UP INC: $14,042,750 · EducationYEAR UP INCBPE INC: $8,402,510 · Education+48 more: $135,890,179 · Education+48 moreUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $22,513,778 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of M…THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $15,266,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MIAMI FOUND…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $14,051,691 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWM…INTEND HEALTH STRATEGIES INC: $9,012,000 · PhilanthropyINTEND HEALTH S…BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $8,272,212 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA…Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,031,964 · PhilanthropyCombined Jewish…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,587,069 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILAN…ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,738,622 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $5,086,400 · PhilanthropySOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,832,766 · PhilanthropyGREATER WORCESTER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,049,123 · Philanthropy+7 more: $14,480,805 · Philanthropy+7 moreMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $23,459,581 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORA…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,192,941 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $8,078,170 · OtherJUSTICE CATALYST INC: $11,958,033 · OtherTHE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $11,502,463 · Other+66 more: $173,147,424 · Other+66 moreBOSTON BALLET INC: $23,874,095 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLE…THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $9,262,075 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUT…EMBRACE BOSTON INC: $8,504,678 · Arts & CultureEMBRACE BOST…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,441,361 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPH…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $7,418,348 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FI…EMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $6,856,329 · Arts & CultureEMERSON UMBR…ROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $6,571,503 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUS…THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION: $3,970,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $3,904,080 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $16,608,005 · Arts & Culture+7 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $39,405,838 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY IN…NEW PROFIT INC: $13,911,500 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT …GREENLIGHT FUND INC: $13,129,135 · Community ImprovementGREENLIGHT …ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $5,900,746 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEU…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $4,451,046 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $3,592,923 · Community Improvement+3 more: $4,903,909 · Community Improvement+3 moreJUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC: $10,010,000 · Human ServicesSocial Finance Inc: $7,640,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,890,232 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $4,530,124 · Human ServicesWEEMA INTERNATIONAL INC: $4,007,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $3,500,040 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INC: $2,925,059 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $2,762,041 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $2,639,900 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC: $2,352,500 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $2,099,864 · Human Services+8 more: $14,271,283 · Human ServicesDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,904,870 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,554,060 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,024,800 · HealthThe Broad Institute Inc: $5,453,250 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $4,907,179 · HealthUpstream USA Inc: $3,310,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,377,661 · HealthECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC: $2,189,438 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $2,163,040 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $2,001,950 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $1,938,418 · HealthSILENT SPRING INSTITUTE INC: $1,831,500 · HealthTHE CLEVELAND CLINIC FOUNDATION: $1,800,000 · Health+1 more: $1,522,820 · Health
Education$222,958,468Philanthropy$116,922,430Other$236,338,612Arts & Culture$95,410,474Community Improvement$85,295,097Human Services$62,628,543Health$52,978,986

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%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $39,405,838 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $25,304,953 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $23,874,095 over 9y, 9.9% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $22,513,778 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $21,717,447 over 9y, 15% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $17,600,629 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC: $15,266,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $14,051,691 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $14,042,750 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $13,911,500 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $13,129,135 over 9y, 25% of budgetJUSTICE CATALYST INC: $11,958,033 over 9y, 98% of budgetTHE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC: $11,502,463 over 3y, 48% of budgetJUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC: $10,010,000 over 7y, 99% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $9,262,075 over 9y, 7.8% of budgetINTEND HEALTH STRATEGIES INC: $9,012,000 over 7y, 82% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $8,904,870 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,554,060 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEMBRACE BOSTON INC: $8,504,678 over 2y, 77% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $8,441,361 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetBPE INC: $8,402,510 over 7y, 48% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $8,192,941 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $8,078,170 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetSocial Finance Inc: $7,640,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $7,418,348 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $7,031,964 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $6,963,133 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetEMERSON UMBRELLA INC: $6,856,329 over 9y, 64% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $6,629,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $6,587,069 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $6,571,503 over 9y, 32% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $6,504,252 over 9y, 7.5% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $6,170,357 over 9y, 8.1% of budgetVanderbilt University: $6,143,014 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $6,024,800 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $5,900,746 over 9y, 17% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5,890,232 over 9y, 11% of budgetShare Winter Foundation: $5,738,800 over 7y, 32% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,738,622 over 9y, 13% of budgetTRUE COSTS INITIATIVE INC: $5,690,000 over 9y, 96% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $5,598,760 over 9y, 9.8% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc: $5,453,250 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $5,133,250 over 9y, 62% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $5,086,400 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University: $4,937,455 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $4,907,179 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $4,832,766 over 9y, 20% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL: $4,774,850 over 9y, 2.6% 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.

  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
  • Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW PROFIT INC ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE CATALYST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE CATALYST LAW INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
  • Who funds INTEND HEALTH STRATEGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds EMBRACE BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds BPE INC ↗
  • Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds Social Finance Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON UMBRELLA INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗

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.

Bushrod H Campbell & …Cummings Foundation G…The Cabot Family Char…Boston Charitable Tru…Children's Hospital C…Cambridge Savings Cha…The Hamilton Company …Riley Mabel Louise Tr…Yawkey Foundation IIThe Hyams Foundation …Liberty Mutual Founda…Wellington Management…
Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity FundMA138.1× affinity172 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Children's Hospital Corporation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Yawkey Foundation II · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation

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 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 320%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Up Education Network: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boston After School & Beyond Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Nectar Community Investments Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Silent Spring Institute Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Social Finance 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
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 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
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Smart From the Start Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Emmanuel Music Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology: 5% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Masschallenge Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Trio New College Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerson Umbrella Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Buckingham Browne & Nichols School: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
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32get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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 2000 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