· Public charity
Bostongives Inc
Boston gives exists to improve the lives of inner city children in the greater boston area by supporting children's education, social services and health care programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $120,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $122,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,500 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.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $30,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $20,000 |
| THE NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $10,000 |
| BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MATCH EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $10,000 |
| UNCOMMON SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ENRICHMENT | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–20, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC2× · 2019–2020 · $55k · revenue +34%
- TMTHE MATCH FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +29%
- NINATIVITY-BOSTON INC2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- OBOne Bread Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
To promote the healthy development of children through the nurturing of continuing, one-to-one friendships with caring, responsible adults, supported by trained professional staff.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
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…
To promote the financial well-being of kipp academy boston public charter school and kipp massachusetts, inc. by soliciting, receiving and administering funds for construction, operation and maintenance of the school, and to support the…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
Edvestors was founded in 2002 as a platform to connect boston philanthropists with the city's public schools by identifying, shaping, and matching donors with promising school improvement efforts. (see schedule o)
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Bread Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY-BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds One Bread Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bostongives 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 34% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 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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