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Boston Women's Fund Inc

To support community-based organizations & grassroots initiatives run by women and girls in order to create a society based on racial, economic and social justice.

$554k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2017–2025.

Philanthropy$1.0MCivil Rights$398kEducation$365kYouth Development$245kCommunity Improvement$241kHealth$198kHuman Services$182kHousing & Shelter$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $432,279 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $553,788 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $121,509 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESIST INC$70,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON$29,779
SOMALI PARENTS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR EDUCATION (SPACE)$25,000
PROPA CITY COMMUNITY OUTREACH$20,000
GRIMES-KING FOUNDATION FOR THE ELDERLY INC$20,000
HEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC$20,000
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION$20,000
LOVE YOUR MAGIC$20,000
ASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE$20,000
ASSOCIATION OF HAITIAN WOMEN$20,000
SISTERS UNCHAINED INC$20,000
BAGLY INC$20,000
ABILITIES DANCE$20,000
WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT$20,000
SMALL HOUSE INC$20,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $98k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $30k → 17%Chica Project: $10k → 16%THE CITY SCHOOL: $8k → 16%THE CITY SCHOOL: $7k → 16%The City School: $7k → 16%SOMALI PARENTS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR EDUCATION (SPACE): $25k → 16%MASS ASSOCIATION FOR ASIAN AMERICAN EDUCATORS: $7k → 16%BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $6k → 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 29 repeat orgs$279k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
15

Total granted

$1.7M
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+14%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Community ImprovementYouth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • WE
    WOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $118k · revenue +131%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF HAITIAN WOMEN INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $116k · revenue ×11
  • BAGLY INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +84%

Funded once

  • WF
    WOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +66%
  • NC
    Northeast Center for Tradeswomen
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k
  • LY
    Love Your Menses Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -71%

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
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc

The womens fund southcoast advances gender, racial and economic justice through research, grantmaking and advocacy.

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2
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Women's Fund Inc

To support community-based organizations & grassroots initiatives run by women and girls in order to create a society based on racial, economic and social justice. we strive for a world free of racism, poverty, and sexism.

Philanthropy
5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
6
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
7
Women's Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…

Philanthropy
8
Women's Money Matters Inc

Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…

Human Services
9
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement
10
Massachusetts Women's Political Caucus Leadership Development Educationa

The massachusetts women's political caucus is a multipartisan organization founded in 1971 to maximize the participation of women of all ages in the political process and to increase the number of women appointed and elected to public…

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11
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
12
Massachusetts Women of Color Coalition Inc

Eradication of racial inequities among with women of color

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grimes - King Foundation for the Elderly. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Land & Parks Stewa…Surgical Specialty Associat…Community Arts & PerformanceFaith-Based Community Cente…Cancer Research & SupportAffordable Housing ProvidersFamily Philanthropic Founda…Industry Trade Associations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 22 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%14%<5yr14%22%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%16%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr14%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%12%<5yr14%18%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%7%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr14%40%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 12% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/50
the rest of the field
10%
2,238/21,403

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.

04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 51 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,043,108 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONRESIST INC — $107,500 · OtherRESIST INCBAGLY INC — $105,000 · OtherBAGLY INCGRIMES - KING FOUNDATION FOR THE ELDERLY — $75,000 · OtherGRIMES - KING FOUNDATION FOR THE ELD…MELANIN MASS MOMS — $65,000 · OtherMELANIN MASS MOMSPROPA CITY COMMUNITY OUTREACH — $65,000 · OtherPROPA CITY COMMUNITY OUTREACHBIRTH EQUITY & JUSTICE MASSACHUSETTS (BEJMA) — $45,000 · OtherJustice For Housing Inc — $55,000 · OtherJustice For Housing IncSMALL HOUSE INC — $55,000 · OtherSMALL HOUSE INCASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH INC — $85,000 · OtherASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH INC+18 more — $313,000 · Other+18 moreWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC — $118,000 · EducationWOMEN ENCO…ASSOCIATION OF HAITIAN WOMEN INC — $115,750 · EducationASSOCIATIO…UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $29,779 · EducationUNIVERSITY…THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC — $11,500 · Education+1 more — $6,500 · EducationSISTERS UNCHAINED INC — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE YOUR MAGIC INC — $62,500 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING AUDACITY — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $13,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION — $12,400 · Youth DevelopmentTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $76,500 · Community ImprovementESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $50,000 · Community ImprovementNIPMUC INDIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP — $40,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC — $7,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,500 · Community ImprovementASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE INC — $80,000 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $60,000 · Civil RightsNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $7,500 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,500 · Civil RightsABILITIES DANCE INC — $85,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC — $40,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$1,043,108Other$970,500Education$281,529Youth Development$221,900Community Improvement$215,500Civil Rights$154,000Arts & Culture$125,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,043,108 over 1y, 10% of budgetWOMEN ENCOURAGING EMPOWERMENT INC — $118,000 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF HAITIAN WOMEN INC — $115,750 over 7y, 11% of budgetRESIST INC — $107,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBAGLY INC — $105,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH INC — $85,000 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetSISTERS UNCHAINED INC — $85,000 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetABILITIES DANCE INC — $85,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN WOMEN'S POLITICAL INITIATIVE INC — $80,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $76,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRIMES - KING FOUNDATION FOR THE ELDERLY — $75,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetLOVE YOUR MAGIC INC — $62,500 over 3y, 20% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC — $60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJustice For Housing Inc — $55,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetSMALL HOUSE INC — $55,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $50,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetNIPMUC INDIAN DEVELOPMENT CORP — $40,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY — $38,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $35,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe City School Inc — $31,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC — $30,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER — $30,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FUND OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $29,779 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Your Menses Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC — $12,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HURRICANE ISLAND FOUNDATION — $12,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC — $11,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSPONTANEOUS CELEBRATIONS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ASIAN AMERICAN COMMISSION — $6,500 over 1y, 26% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC — $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON TENANT COALITION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% 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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…Haymarket People's Fu…United Way Of Massach…The Hyams Foundation …Children's Hospital C…Health Resources in A…The Lenny Zakim FundCummings Foundation G…Foley Hoag FoundationNellie Mae Education …Cambridge Community F…
Boston Foundation IncMA49.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Health Resources in Action Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Foley Hoag Foundation · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community 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 Women's Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Association of Haitian Women Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Nipmuc Indian Development Corp — 24% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Spontaneous Celebrations Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Abilities Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Brazilian Women's Group Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Asian Women for Health Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

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 51 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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