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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.
$52k
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Youth Development$76kHuman Services$57kHousing & Shelter$50kCommunity Improvement$29kEducation$18kOther$54k
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
2018
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2021
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2022
tennisacademic
2023
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2024
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$550k
Total assets
Largest grants
- ALL DORCHESTER SPORTS & LEADERSHIP$10,000
- MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORP$10,000
- BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER$10,000
- CHICA PROJECT$10,000
- THE BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES$10,000
02The need
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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 (FY17–23, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$243k · 7 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +94% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
7
3
Total granted
$243k
$30k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+94%
-4%
Still filing today
100%
67%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther
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 AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER6× · 2017–2024 · $56k · revenue +338%- MPMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORP5× · 2018–2024 · $50k · revenue +449%
HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS4× · 2018–2023 · $37k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -10%
- BSBPEDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOODone grant, 2017 · $10k
- STSPORTSMEN'S TENNIS AND ENRICHMENT Cgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +153%
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.
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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
The Boston Home Inc
To improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.
Health
3
The Boston Children's School Inc
To provide early education for pre-school children thru the early grades up to k-2. admittance is open to all children.
Education
4
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Education
5
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
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
Southwest Boston Community Development
The southwest boston community development corporation is led by principles of racial equity and inclusion, to alleviate social and economic disparities that impact people's quality of life and future opportunities. it shall be led by and…
Community Improvement
8
West End House Inc
The mission of west end house, inc. d/b/a west end house boys & girls club of allston-brighton (the club) is to inspire and enable young people to realize their full potential as productive, responsible, and caring citizens. the club is an…
Recreation & Sports
9
Boston Partners in Education Inc
By creating supportive relationships between students and volunteer mentors, boston partners in education ensures a more equitable city where every bps student is equipped with the skills, opportunity, and confidence to succeed in the…
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10
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
11
The Boys and Girls Clubs
Boys & girls clubs of metropolitan baltimore (bgcmb) provides youth development programs and services for youth ages 6 to 18 during the critical out-of-school time hours. our nine club locations are community-based and led by paid,…
Youth Development
12
The Children's Center of Brookline
To provide quality daycare and early childhood education to familes of brookline and greater boston.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc. 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
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Youth Development$76,000Human Services$57,016Other$53,750Housing & Shelter$50,000Community Improvement$28,500Education$18,000
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.
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER ↗
- Who funds MADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS ↗
- Who funds ALL DORCHESTER SPORTS & LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON PROJECT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds SELF-ESTEEM BOSTON ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATI ↗
- Who funds CHICA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds BPEDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD ↗
- Who funds SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS AND ENRICHMENT C ↗
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 IncMA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 34% of income from government
- Chica Inc — 18% of income from government
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
05Through 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: SELF-ESTEEM BOSTON.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~17 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 9 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
9 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 043213321 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 SELF-ESTEEM BOSTON, 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 17 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 2% 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.
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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 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.
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