· Private foundation
Cabot Corporation Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $627k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $926k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS | $240,000 |
| BOSTON HARBOR NOW | $175,000 |
| BOSTON HARBOR NOW | $175,000 |
| CHINA FOUNDATION FOR DISABLED PERSONS | $68,000 |
| MASS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR | $60,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA | $54,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $53,919 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| EMMAUS | $50,000 |
| COURAGEOUS SAILING | $35,000 |
| CHARITA VALASSKA MEZIRICI | $32,500 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $30,303 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,500 |
| AMERICAN CORPORATE PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $25,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $245k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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 +162% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $432k 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
BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC4× · 2021–2024 · $725k · revenue +162%- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN4× · 2021–2024 · $180k · revenue +47%
- CSCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +206%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $89k
- WWWUHAI WODA SHOU KANG NURSING HOMEone grant, 2020 · $73k
- WWGBHone grant, 2023 · $50k
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
The mission of berkshire health systems is to advance health & wellness for everyone in our community in a welcoming,inclusive & personalized environment.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Harbor Now Inc and the most unlike its peers is Billerica Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 128 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.
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 BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER BILLERICA INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Cabot Corporation Foundation 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Billerica Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders 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.