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Boston State Community Trust Inc

The mission of the boston state community trust is to support the implementation of social, economic, educational, vocational, recreational, and mental health programs that will directly benefit residents of the neighborhoods of mattapan; roxbury; dorchester; roslindale; hyde park; and jamaica plain.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$323kHealth$20kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $70,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $71,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$790k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOT ART$10,000
MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
THE BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES$10,000
SELF ESTEEM BOSTON$10,000
ORIGINATION CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$10,000
ALL DORCHESTER SPORTS & LEADERSHIP$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $67k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SELF-ESTEEM BOSTON: $10k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $10k → 16%SELF-ESTEEM BOSTON: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $9k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $9k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $9k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $9k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$293k · 7 repeat orgs$60k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

$293k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+54%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $66k · revenue +355%
  • MP
    MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    6× · 2018–2025 · $60k · revenue +368%
  • AD
    All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • CHICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +42%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +54%
  • BI
    BPE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +7%

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

04Your 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.

1
Bpe Inc

Bpe drives exceptional outcomes for all students by developing great teachers and great schools. for three decades, bpe (formerly the boston plan for excellence) has devised solutions to the toughest challenges faced by boston's students…

Education
2
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc

The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.

Human Services
3
Brookline Teen Center

Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…

Youth Development
4
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica Inc

To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
5
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

6
Boston Community Pediatrics Inc

Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…

Health
7
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
8
Boston Explorers Inc

Youth Development

Recreation & Sports
9
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
12
Boys and Girls' Club of the Berkshires Inc

The primary mission of the boys and girls' club of pittsfield is to assure and enhance the quality of life for youth as participating members of a richly diverse urban society. with emphasis on being socially and economically inclusive,…

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Project Ministries Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chica 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $66,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCH…CHICA INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICA INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTO…All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — $43,750 · OtherAll Dorchester Sports &…ORIGINATION CULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $10,000 · OtherORIGINATION CULTURAL AR…BPE INC — $10,000 · OtherBPE INCTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $10,000 · OtherTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS …THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $37,016 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE W…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston Ed…MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterMADISON PARK DEVELO…BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES INC — $38,500 · Community ImprovementBOSTON PROJE…CENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC — $18,000 · EducationDORCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTER FOR VISUAL ARTS INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Youth Development$86,000Other$73,750Human Services$67,016Housing & Shelter$60,000Community Improvement$38,500Education$18,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $66,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAll Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — $43,750 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES INC — $38,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC — $37,016 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCENTER FOR COMUNITY HEALTH ED RESEARCH AND SERVICE INC — $18,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCHICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBPE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncMA20.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 State Community Trust Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 12%
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc38% of income from government
  • All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc21% of income from government
  • Chica Inc12% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Boston State Community Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Boston State Community Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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