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Boston Sand & Gravel Company Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$111k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$25k
Largest
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 2024.

Health$193kEducation$166kArts & Culture$88kPhilanthropy$79kYouth Development$31kScience & Tech$26kHuman Services$26kReligion$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k39 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$74k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INLY SCHOOL$25,000
AMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION$10,000
FRIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION$7,000
PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION$6,833
THE FRIENDS OF STPATRICK$5,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE$5,000
NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL$5,000
THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER$5,000
BOSTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$4,000
THE THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION$3,500
MARSHFIELD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$3,500
PAN MASS CHALLENGE - JIMMY FUND$3,000
GOLF FIGHTS CANCER$3,000
WINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE WFEE$2,500
BOSTON HARBOR NOW$2,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 13% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HARK - ALS: $20k → 5%WINCHESTER ABC: $1k → 8%MERRIMACK VALLEY HOSPICE: $1k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $10k → 8%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 8%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%THE GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 8%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $1k → 8%CASA MYRNA: $1k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $500 → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $1k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $750 → 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

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
TN
NC
MS
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$534k · 53 repeat orgs$146k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

53 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
77

Total granted

$534k
$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+23%

Still filing today

64%
34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureOther
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

  • IS
    INLY SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +42%
  • AH
    AMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%
  • GH
    GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +228%

Funded once

  • HI
    HARK-ALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +165%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +91%
  • SA
    SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -91%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
3
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
4
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
8
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
10
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…

Health
11
Peter Cohen Foundation
Health
12
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc; the most unlike its peers is Amy Gallagher Foundation. 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

73 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. 73 of the 149 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/73
Grantees still filing
49/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INLY SCHOOL INC: $102,500 · OtherINLY SCHOOL INCFRIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION: $28,000 · OtherFRIAS FAMILY FOUNDATIONRMC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $26,000 · OtherRMC RESEARCH & EDUCATION FOUNDATIONHUDSON PORTUGUESE CLUB: $20,500 · OtherHUDSON PORTUGUESE CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+97 more: $170,550 · Other+97 moreNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $35,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BAPT…THE PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $13,392 · HealthTHE PETER FRATES…ONE MISSION INC: $11,000 · HealthONE MISSION INCChildren's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…CYNTHIA'S CHALLENGE: $9,200 · HealthCYNTHIA'S CHALLE…TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC: $6,000 · HealthTEAMSTERS LOCAL …+13 more: $15,050 · Health+13 moreAMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICA'S H…EXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureEXPRESS YOU…+1 more: $950 · Arts & CultureTHOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC: $15,850 · PhilanthropyBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $11,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE DERENZO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $3,000 · PhilanthropyWINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $2,500 · Philanthropy+1 more: $500 · PhilanthropyHARK-ALS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $2,750 · Human Services+6 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $17,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $6,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $100 · Youth DevelopmentMILTON ACADEMY: $6,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $2,500 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $1,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,000 · Education
Other$362,550Health$99,642Arts & Culture$71,450Philanthropy$51,850Human Services$45,250Youth Development$38,100Education$11,000

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 budgetINLY SCHOOL INC: $102,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING INC: $65,000 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHARK-ALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $17,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $13,392 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetONE MISSION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCYNTHIA'S CHALLENGE: $9,200 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetTHE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DERENZO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWinchester Cooperative Nursery School Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $2,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $2,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGAM JUNIOR SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $2,500 over 8y, 16% of budgetWINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $2,250 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARE HILL ROWING ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVietnam Veterans of Massachusetts Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFESCAPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMY GALLAGHER FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 INLY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds HARK-ALS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREG HILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ONE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CYNTHIA'S CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds THE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC ↗
  • Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE DERENZO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC ↗

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.

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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 Sand & Gravel Company Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Boston Sand & Gravel Company Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% 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
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Italian Home for Children Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Mystic River Watershed Association Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Seton Residence Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Inly School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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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Find your warmest path to Boston Sand & Gravel Company Charitable Foundation 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 149 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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