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Boston Scientific Foundation Inc at a glance

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Boston Scientific Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
60
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
States reached
$600k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$4.7MHealth$3.5MInternational$2.0MYouth Development$1.1MHuman Services$364kScience & Tech$197kFood & Nutrition$180kHousing & Shelter$170kOther$0
02FY2025 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k50 grants · $1.1M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$21,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION$600,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA$475,000
I AM ABEL FOUNDATION$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION$150,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS$100,000
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC$50,000
TECH MY SCHOOL$45,000
UNITED FAMILY PRACTICE HEALTH CENTER$39,936
INTERFAITH ACTION OF GREATER SAINT PAUL$32,688
UMASS MEMORIAL HEALTH CARE INC$32,000
MSD MARTINSVILLE SCHOOLS$31,454
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC$30,000
CARE CLINIC$30,000
YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS$30,000
ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY$30,000
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 (FY18–25, $951k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LEONARDO'S BASEMENT: $30k → 11%I AM ABEL FOUNDATION: $250k → 14%LEONARDO'S BASEMENT: $20k → 11%LEONARDOS BASEMENT: $15k → 11%SPENCER PRIDE: $2k → 14%A LITTLE EASIER RECOVERY INC: $10k → 10%GREATER MINNEAPOLIS CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 11%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WORCESTER: $5k → 11%PINKY SWEAR FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%STEP UP ON SECOND STREET INC: $20k → 14%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $100k → 7%HORIZONS GREATER BOSTON INC: $8k → 7%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10k → 16%AVALON-CARVER COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 14%ENROOT INC: $10k → 8%MEND-MEET EACH NEED WITH DIGNITY: $30k → 14%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC: $20k → 7%WAY TO GROW: $15k → 11%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $8k → 7%HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC: $7k → 7%TOUCHSTONE MENTAL HEALTH: $25k → 11%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $25k → 16%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $15k → 11%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS: $5k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS: $10k → 16%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $25k → 14%FACE TO FACE HEALTH & COUNSELING SERVICE INC: $19k → 14%RELATE INC: $20k → 11%RELATE INC: $20k → 11%YWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30k → 11%AMHERST H WILDER FOUNDATION: $17k → 14%WAY TO GROW: $13k → 11%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

NH
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ID
MT
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IL
WI
MI
NY
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OR
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
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CO
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MD
AZ
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AR
TN
NC
DC
LA
AL
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 17% of Boston Scientific Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Boston Scientific Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 17% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.6M · 161 repeat orgs$4.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

161 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 138 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

161
232

Total granted

$8.6M
$2.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+21%

Still filing today

66%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • PROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $2.0M · revenue +7%
  • SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $200k · revenue +47%
  • CA
    C A R E Clinic
    4× · 2021–2025 · $115k · revenue +46%

Funded once

  • EM
    EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $98k · revenue +34%
  • NH
    NorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +19%
  • VI
    Volunteers in Medicine Clinic of Monroe County Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue 0%
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

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

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2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Mcphs University

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

Education
6
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
10
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Health Care Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Tech My School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

295 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. 295 of the 435 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
290/295
Grantees still filing
214/295
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA: $1,334,500 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICACANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $350,000 · OtherCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITYUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES: $241,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES+73 more: $2,063,435 · Other+73 morePROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalPROJECT HOPE - THE P…+2 more: $45,000 · InternationalNATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC: $600,000 · HealthNATIONAL AHEC ORGAN…C A R E Clinic: $115,000 · HealthC A R E ClinicST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $105,000 · HealthST MARYS HEALTH CLI…EMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $98,000 · HealthSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $71,500 · HealthHEALTHWORKS COMMUNITY FITNESS INC: $67,000 · Health+31 more: $831,317 · Health+31 moreUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF M…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $200,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SC…BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $65,000 · EducationMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $65,000 · EducationBreakthrough Twin Cities: $60,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $53,500 · Education+34 more: $887,260 · Education+34 moreI AM ABEL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesLEONARDO'S BASEMENT: $65,000 · Human ServicesFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $44,000 · Human ServicesRelate Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesMEND - Meet Each Need With Dignity: $30,000 · Human ServicesYWCA OF MINNEAPOLIS: $30,000 · Human Services+10 more: $214,800 · Human ServicesBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $53,545 · Youth DevelopmentCREATEMPLS: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $47,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $44,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $39,500 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $34,500 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE TUTORING INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentAVENUES FOR YOUTH: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CARSON INC: $26,500 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH & FAMILIES DETERMINED TO SUCCEED: $25,000 · Youth Development30000 Feet: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $23,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $85,550 · Youth DevelopmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $30,000 · EnvironmentMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $25,200 · EnvironmentMISSISSIPPI PARK CONNECTION: $20,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION CORPS: $18,500 · EnvironmentCITYSPROUTS INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · Environment
Other$3,988,935International$2,045,000Health$1,887,817Education$1,555,760Human Services$843,800Youth Development$678,595Environment$124,700

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNATIONAL AHEC ORGANIZATION INC: $600,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY: $350,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetI AM ABEL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $200,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetC A R E Clinic: $115,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetST MARYS HEALTH CLINICS: $105,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERGENCY MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $98,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF THE TWIN CITIES: $95,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHSOURCE: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC: $71,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION OF THE MONROE COUNTY COMMUNITY SCHOOLS INC: $70,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHEALTHWORKS COMMUNITY FITNESS INC: $67,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $65,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMINNESOTA COMPUTERS FOR SCHOOLS: $65,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLEONARDO'S BASEMENT: $65,000 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetBreakthrough Twin Cities: $60,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $53,545 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $53,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC: $53,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCREATEMPLS: $50,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetAnnex Teen Clinic Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetNorthPoint Health and Wellness Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAUGSBURG UNIVERSITY: $49,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC: $48,579 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $47,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetWashburn Center for Children: $46,945 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOMINGTON HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN VENTURES LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFace to Face Health and Counseling Service Inc: $44,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUTEC Inc: $44,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $43,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetScience & Engineering Education Development Inc: $41,557 over 3y, 28% of budgetRelate Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPARK NICOLLET FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $39,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $38,485 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST CATHERINE UNIVERSITY: $38,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS DREAM CODE: $37,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetThe Heartofagiant Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetSTARBASE MINNESOTA INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF MN AND WI RIVER VALLEYS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Hb Fuller Company Fou…Greater Twin Cities U…Cummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…Otto Bremer TrustSaint Paul & Minnesot…The Minneapolis Found…Amelia Peabody Founda…Fr Bigelow FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…The Richard M Schulze…Liberty Mutual Founda…
Hb Fuller Company FoundationMN59.1× affinity28 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hb Fuller Company Foundation · Greater Twin Cities United Way · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Otto Bremer Trust · Saint Paul & Minnesota Foundation · The Minneapolis Foundation · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Fr Bigelow Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Family Health Center of Worcesterinc: 39% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Manet Community Health Center Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Mystic River Watershed Association Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Kids in Tech Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc: 13% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Codman Square Health Center Inc: 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Youth Development Organization Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 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 and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
60report 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Boston Scientific Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Boston Scientific Foundation Inc 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 435 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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