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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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of BOSTON SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INLY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| AMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING CELEBRATION | $10,000 |
| FRIAS FAMILY FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| PETER FRATES FAMILY FOUNDATION | $6,833 |
| THE NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER | $5,000 |
| THE FRIENDS OF STPATRICK | $5,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| BOSTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE | $4,000 |
| THE THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION | $3,500 |
| MARSHFIELD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $3,500 |
| GOLF FIGHTS CANCER | $3,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE - JIMMY FUND | $3,000 |
| WINCHESTER FOUNDATION FOR EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE WFEE | $2,500 |
| BOSTON HARBOR NOW | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +75% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- ISINLY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $103k · revenue +42%
- AHAMERICA'S HOMETOWN THANKSGIVING INC7× · 2017–2024 · $65k · revenue +46%
- GHGREG HILL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $18k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- HIHARK-ALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +165%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +69%
- SAST ANTHONY'S SHRINEone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
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…
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.…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
73 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- 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 ONE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation 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 TEAMSTERS LOCAL 25 AUTISM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ST PATRICK INC ↗
- Who funds THE DERENZO CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · GivenGain Foundation USA · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · State Street Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable 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 organization Boston Sand & Gravel Company Charitable 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.
- 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
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 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.
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