How much did BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION grant in FY2023?

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION reported 9 grants totaling $416,522 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION based?

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION is based in MA.

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION

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· Public charity

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION

To revitalize city of boston neighborhood main streets.

$417k

Granted FY2023

Grants

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Communities

$15k

Largest

01What you fund

0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2023.

Community Improvement$291kArts & Culture$40kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$48k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

roslindale villagecornerbusinessespolicerevitalizationeconomicgreater

2020

greaterhyde

2021

policeroslindale villageownersrevitalizationcommercialsouth

2022

south

2023

policeroslindale villagecommercial districtrevitalizationeconomicsouthowners

2025

cornerbusinesseseconomicsouthpreservationcommercialrevitalization

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k4 grants · $23k
$10k–50k5 grants · $55k

$10,000

Median grant

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States reached

$599k

Total assets

Largest grants

JP CENTRESOUTH MAIN STREETS$15,000
GREATER ASHMONT$10,000
WEST ROXBURY MAIN STREETS INC$10,000
ROXBURY$10,000
HYDE PARK MAIN STREET$10,000
ROSLINDALE VILLAGE MAIN STREET$7,500
BRIGHTON MAIN STREETS$5,000
MATTAPAN SQUARE MAIN STREETS$5,000
FOUR CORNERS$5,000

02Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$360k · 12 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against +67% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$360k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

+67%

Still filing today

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Community ImprovementArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

HP
HYDE PARK MAIN STREET
4× · 2019–2023 · $50k · revenue +150%
JC
JP CENTRESOUTH MAIN STREETS
5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +135%
BM
BRIGHTON MAIN STREETS
3× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +240%

Funded once

GB
GENEVA BOWDOIN MAIN STREETgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue +27%
AV
ALLSTON VILLAGE MAIN STREET INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +87%
ES
EGLESTON SQUARE MAIN STREETgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +67%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

Charleston Main Streets Inc

Charleston main streets will grow vibrant commercial districts, serving as the main vessel through the city's urban core, that fosters an environment for economic growth and the strongest business districts in west virginia.

Education

Beverly Main Streets Inc

Beverly main streets' mission is to promote and enhance beverly's downtown.

Community Improvement

Jeffersonville Main Street Inc

To maintain and enhance the viability of Jeffersonville's historic downtown commercial and residential districts, to promote economic revitalization and encourage new businesses, and to initiate and support appropriate building and…

Community Improvement

Hyannis Main Street Business

This organization was organized for the civic purpose of promoting, developing, and advancing business within the district in the downtown area of hyannis, massachusetts.

Community Improvement

East Market Street Development

Offers comprehensive revitalization services in east greensboro, nc that create and sustain assets through economic, business and community development services and programs the corporation is helping rebuild the business community in east…

Community Improvement

Main Street Brookville

Promote and enhance downtown brookville

Community Improvement

Main Street Lexington

To increase the economic prosperity and cultural vitality of our community, reestablishing downtown lexington as the vibrant economic and cultutal nexus of our area, while maintaining its unique character

Community Improvement

Fells Point Main Street Inc

The mission of Fell's Point Main Street is to promote and encourage economic development while strengthening and revitalizing the greater Fell's Point business district in ways that meet the needs of businesses, residents, and visitors…

Community Improvement

Main Street Crossing

Shared church facility, faith-based community involvement

Religion

Main Street Bath

To promote and protect Bath, Maine's historically and culturally significant downtown commercial area.

Arts & Culture

Mainstreet Redevelopment Associatio

Community development combining residential living with business development.

Community Improvement

Main Street Medina Inc

Main street medina's mission is to focus on revitalization efforts on the central business district around the historic square by sponsoring exciting events and programs, supporting community based development, recruiting new businesses to…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brighton Main Streets Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bams Fest 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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/16

Grantees still filing

16/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Improvement$291,480Other$47,500Arts & Culture$40,000Housing & Shelter$25,000

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA16.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · 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 organisation BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION 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.

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typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BRIGHTON MAIN STREETS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043407004 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BRIGHTON MAIN STREETS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 15 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 20% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Boston Main Streets Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Boston Main Streets Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boston Main Streets Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BOSTON MAIN STREETS FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Boston Main Streets Foundation?

More from the funding graph