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Cambridge Community Foundation

Cambridge Community Foundation (ccf) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the residents of cambridge.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
162
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$3.9MEducation$3.0MArts & Culture$2.4MFood & Nutrition$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MYouth Development$795kOther$0
02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2025 · 162 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 162 grants below total $3,438,006 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $4,003,935 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $565,929 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.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16
10%
69%
21%
$1.0M
FY17
12%
65%
24%
$1.2M
FY18
56%
36%
$1.6M
FY19
40%
40%
14%
$2.1M
FY20
52%
44%
$3.0M
FY21
16%
59%
25%
$682k
FY22
40%
26%
29%
$3.4M
FY23
28%
39%
25%
$4.4M
FY24
58%
34%
$3.4M
Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 0% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024 that was 0%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$10,250
Median grant
12
States reached
$69M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOLIDAIRE NETWORK INC$200,000
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER$160,914
CAMBRIDGE NEWS INC$128,333
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$118,263
CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE$100,827
BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC$100,000
PATHWAY FOR IMMIGRANT WORKERS$80,000
FALCON PRIDE SCHOLARS$61,000
LONGY SCHOOL OF MUSIC OF BARD COLLEGE$60,000
THE CITY SCHOOL$56,500
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE INC$50,000
DAILY TABLE$50,000
INSTITUTE FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION IN AMERICA$47,500
CAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION$46,089
JUST A START$46,000
02The need
04

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, $5.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 5%ACTION FOR BOSTON: $78k → 27%EAST END HOUSE: $229k → 12%EAST END HOUSE: $85k → 12%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMM: $344k → 15%COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $39k → 15%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER: $45k → 12%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $60k → 14%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $34k → 15%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $70k → 15%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTE: $45k → 12%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $139k → 14%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $141k → 14%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SER: $33k → 12%COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $37k → 15%THRIVE INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED: $43k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER CAMBRIDGE: $44k → 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $328k → 14%SOMERVILLE YMCA: $30k → 10%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $32k → 15%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMM: $53k → 15%THE CITY SCHOOL: $47k → 22%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUES: $34k → 15%THRIVE INDUSTRIES INCORPORATED: $92k → 8%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $35k → 12%PATHWAY FOR IMMIGRANT WORKERS: $80k → 15%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $161k → 15%EAST END HOUSE: $40k → 12%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $70k → 15%COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $36k → 15%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $35k → 15%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE FUND CCF-FINIT: $50k → 14%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMM: $45k → 15%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $105k → 15%ENROOT: $34k → 15%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $242k → 15%THE CITY SCHOOL: $57k → 22%MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $60k → 15%EAST END HOUSE: $47k → 12%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $60k → 14%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMM: $100k → 15%CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER: $43k → 15%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES: $35k → 12%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE: $101k → 15%PATHWAY FOR IMMIGARNT WORKERS: $55k → 12%ENROOT: $65k → 15%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION - PRO: $35k → 11%EAST END HOUSE: $60k → 12%EAST END HOUSE: $35k → 12%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

  • Adults without health insurance:reaches 16.3% in some neighborhoods (typically 3.5%)(CDC, modeled)
  • Food access:10 of 317 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

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

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You back the full breadth of your community — and the organisations you fund hold up better than the rest.

As a community foundation you fund inclusively across the local sector — established institutions and scrappy new efforts alike — which is the mission, not a hedge. Even so, the organisations you back are less fragile than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund.

The kind of organization you back

63% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 38% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. 35% of the ones you pick are financially resilient, against 30% of that field, and fewer show the warning signs below.

What they work on

  • Human Services22% vs 10%
  • Arts & Culture17% vs 12%
  • Community Improvement7% vs 2%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Health, Education.

you fund (86) you don’t (2425)· share of each group
You fund (71)You don’t (1564)
Median size (revenue)$1.7M$919k
Operating margin6%6%
Financially fragile66%76%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$16M · 147 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

147 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 55 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

Of your 151 multi-year relationships, 42 repeat the same amount every year (16% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
81

Total granted

$16M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $920k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FF
    FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $792k · revenue +204%
  • FII - NATIONAL
    5× · 2017–2023 · $778k · revenue +156%
  • CE
    CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $682k · revenue +155%

    Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee has operated at the center of Cambridge's anti-poverty ecosystem since 1965, and recent years have seen the organization step into national prominence alongside partners including the Cambridge Community Foundation.

Funded once

  • FP
    FALCON PRIDE SCHOLARSHIP FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $181k
  • MH
    MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +127% · 54% of their budget

    Founded in 2020 on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation by Indigenous artist Jeremy Dennis, Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio has grown steadily from a restored 1960s family home into an expanding communal arts campus dedicated to BIPOC artists.

  • IC
    IMPROVISATION CENTER OF BOSTON INC
    one grant, 2021 · $68k · revenue -23%

    ImprovBoston built a four-decade legacy as New England's leading comedy theater and school, expanding into a purpose-built Central Square venue in 2008 and diversifying into corporate training through its IBcreative division in 2018.

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

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

they say it reaches here……few show it gets hereEAST END HOUSECAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSECOMMUNITY ART CENTER INCENROOTRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTERON THE RISE INCSECOND CHANCES INCFURNISHING HOPE OF MASSACHUSETTS INCCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTERSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION- PROJHuman Services1/11 flowerTHE ALGEBRA PROJECTTHE POSSIBLE PROJECTFOUND IN TRANSLATIONBIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONTUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INCBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTONFRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INCCAMBRIDGE MATH CIRCLE INCPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATIONCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATIOPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COEducation0/11 flowerMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONACT INSTITUTE INCHIGHLANDER RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTEREARTHJUSTICECHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATIONNEW VENTURE FUNDGREEN CAMBRIDGE INCMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETYEnvironment1/8 flowerJUST-A-START CORPORATIONCULTUREHOUSESOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION IKENDALL SQUARE ASSOCIATIONCOMMONWEALTH KITCHENBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVEHOMESTART INCAGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITYCommunity Improvement2/8 flowerARLEKIN PLAYERS THEATRECENTRAL SQUARE THEATERDESIGN MUSEUM FOUNDATIONLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INCJEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONSARTS CONNECT INTERNATIONALSTREET THEORY COLLECTIVEWGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATIONCAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATIONCAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETYMUSEUM OF SCIENCEArts & Culture1/11 flower

Of 49 organizations, 5 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 49 of the 92 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

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EAST END HOUSE INC

Conviction

Sustained anchor through a difficult chapter

Cambridge Community Foundation has stood alongside East End House for eight consecutive grant cycles between 2017 and 2025, contributing $554,480 and at times representing as much as 9% of the organization's budget. East End House — one of Greater Boston's oldest multi-service centers, founded in 1875 and the first organization in the country to earn dual Council on Accreditation recognition as an agency and separately for its programs — served 54 young children in its NAEYC-accredited childcare program, 52 school-age children in afterschool enrichment, middle schoolers in an externally evaluated STEM program affiliated with Harvard University and McLean Hospital, and 82 summer campers in 2023. As revenue has trended at a -2% CAGR alongside recurring deficits and single-source income concentration, the Foundation's sustained commitment underscores the urgency of the capital campaign and BioMed community benefits agreement now in play.

8× · 2017–2025
Funded
$554k
You committed
9%
Peak share of budget
+3%
Their revenue since
MH

MA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC

Funded once · graduated

Early bet, remarkable early-stage leverage

Cambridge Community Foundation made a single, catalytic grant of $75,000 to Ma's House & BIPOC Art Studio in 2023 — representing 54% of the organization's budget at the time — and the organization's revenue has since grown 127%, with net assets growing 1.5x, a trajectory that coincides with a campus expansion including a new communal studio building constructed in approximately 48 hours. Founded in June 2020 on the Shinnecock Indian Reservation by Shinnecock Nation artist Jeremy Dennis and formalized as a nonprofit in October 2021, Ma's House now carries multi-year funding commitments and a meaningfully larger physical home. This is an early, high-conviction bet that compounded quickly.

When you stepped in · 2023
$139k
their revenue
$75k= 54% of it
once
Latest filing · 2024
$317k+128%
grown on its own, no further grants

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
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
5
Hubweek Inc

Hubweek, inc. is an organization dedicated to igniting and unleashing the potential of boston. we guide the doers, dreamers, and makers that define who we are as a city and what our future will be. our purpose is to help build a better…

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6
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
7
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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10
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
11
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.

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12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Girls Envisioning More Inc. 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 backsteadyPhilanthropic Grantmaking F…Affordable Housing ProvidersDisability Services & Rehab…Regional Industry Associati…Private Recreation ClubsUniversity Support Organiza…Early Childhood Education C…Historic Preservation & Cul…Hospital Systems and Medica…Performing Arts Organizatio…Massachusetts Industry Asso…Community Access TelevisionSchool Support FoundationsCommunity Healthcare SystemsFood Access & DistributionEquity-Focused Systems Chan…Higher Education Institutio…
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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr20%24%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%6%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr20%16%20–35yr13%29%35–55yr13%27%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%2/270
the rest of the field
10%
1,768/17,005

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.

05the grantee network

243 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. 243 of the 290 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
68
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/243
Grantees still filing
146/243
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FII - NATIONAL — $777,505 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALCAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC — $681,888 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUN…EAST END HOUSE INC — $554,480 · Human ServicesEAST END HOUSE INCCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $498,815 · Human ServicesCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER …MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $486,519 · Human ServicesMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOO…COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC — $225,711 · Human ServicesENROOT INC — $200,500 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $165,877 · Human Services+27 more — $1,368,676 · Human Services+27 moreCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS — $457,244 · OtherCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC SCHOOLSCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE — $249,329 · OtherCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $318,956 · OtherSolidaire Network Inc — $300,000 · OtherDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $259,329 · Other+93 more — $5,707,613 · Other+93 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $859,180 · EducationPresident and…BARD COLLEGE — $428,800 · EducationBARD COLLEGEBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $188,022 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH …TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $168,356 · EducationTUTORING PLUS…THE YOUNG PEOPLE'S PROJECT INC — $90,500 · EducationTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT INC — $84,143 · Education+15 more — $591,496 · Education+15 moreNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,325,000 · EnvironmentOcean River Institute Inc — $91,000 · Environment+5 more — $129,542 · EnvironmentJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $423,500 · Community ImprovementKENDALL SQUARE ASSOCIATION INC — $289,000 · Community ImprovementAGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION — $185,509 · Community ImprovementSPONSOR INC — $183,413 · Community ImprovementHomeStart Inc — $140,000 · Community Improvement+6 more — $145,579 · Community ImprovementCambridge Art Association — $311,330 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC — $154,100 · Arts & CultureLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 · Arts & CultureJEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS INC — $96,000 · Arts & CultureMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation — $67,800 · Arts & CultureWorld Music Inc — $60,100 · Arts & CultureDesign Museum Foundation Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE MULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCambridge Jazz Foundation Inc — $49,200 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $248,800 · Arts & CultureFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC — $791,963 · Food & NutritionTHE FEDERATION OF MASSACHUSETTS FARMERS AND GARDENERS MARKETS INC — $206,193 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $92,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULS — $70,600 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $42,000 · Food & Nutrition
Human Services$4,959,971Other$7,292,471Education$2,410,497Environment$1,545,542Community Improvement$1,367,001Arts & Culture$1,312,330Food & Nutrition$1,202,756

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $1,325,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $859,180 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC — $791,963 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetFII - NATIONAL — $777,505 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC — $681,888 over 7y, 12% of budgetEAST END HOUSE INC — $554,480 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $498,815 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $486,519 over 9y, 21% of budgetBARD COLLEGE — $428,800 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $423,500 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $318,956 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetCambridge Art Association — $311,330 over 8y, 22% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $300,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetKENDALL SQUARE ASSOCIATION INC — $289,000 over 4y, 6.2% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $259,329 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE — $249,329 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $229,189 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC — $225,711 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetTHE FEDERATION OF MASSACHUSETTS FARMERS AND GARDENERS MARKETS INC — $206,193 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $205,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $203,600 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetENROOT INC — $200,500 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC — $197,500 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetCAMBRIDGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP — $195,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC — $188,022 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetAGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION — $185,509 over 9y, 5.6% of budgetSPONSOR INC — $183,413 over 2y, 13% of budgetTUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $168,356 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetTHE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC — $167,300 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $165,877 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON — $164,329 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $162,732 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetTHE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — $159,236 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC — $154,100 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetCASPAR INC — $153,511 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC — $152,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $150,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER INC — $144,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetHomeStart Inc — $140,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetPATHWAY FOR IMMIGRANT WORKERS — $135,000 over 2y, 60% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC — $125,877 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetThe City School Inc — $123,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetTRANSITION HOUSE INC — $118,500 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $111,329 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetInnovators for Purpose Inc — $108,725 over 9y, 7.2% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 4y, 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.

  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST END HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Cambridge Art Association ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENDALL SQUARE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FEDERATION OF MASSACHUSETTS FARMERS AND GARDENERS MARKETS INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORPORATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE AFFORDABLE HOUSING CORP ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds AGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY A CAMBRIDGE CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds SPONSOR INC ↗
  • Who funds TUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW DANCE COMPLEX INC ↗
  • Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MYSTIC VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL SQUARE THEATER INC ↗
  • Who funds CASPAR INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVING ARTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
41 internal · 16 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

Tutoring Plus partners with Community Art Center to deliver enrichment and arts programming. It’s one of 41 direct ties among 64 of your grantees, who also cluster around 16 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

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Grantees connected
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Grantee↔grantee ties
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Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
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External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

50 shown · 58 ties
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS — $204k granted · 6 linksMULTICULTURAL ARTS CENTER — $50k granted · 3 linksJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $424k granted · 8 linksFURNISHING HOPE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $41k granted · 11 linksCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC — $226k granted · 7 linksHOMESTART INC — $140k granted · 3 linksTHE GUIDANCE CENTER RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC — $231k granted · 7 linksMASSACHUSETTS PRODUCTION COALITION — $10k granted · 4 linksCAMBRIDGE SCHOOL VOLUNTEERS CRLS — $68k granted · 5 linksCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER — $499k granted · 12 linksCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTERPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD CO — $859k granted · 5 linksPRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF …ENROOT — $201k granted · 7 linksKENDALL SQUARE ASSOCIATION — $289k granted · 3 linksAGASSIZ BALDWIN COMMUNITY — $186k granted · 8 linksCAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMM — $682k granted · 6 linksCAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORT…BOSTON TAEKWONDO PROJECT — $13k granted · 6 linksNEW VENTURE FUND — $1.3M granted · 5 linksNEW VENTURE FUNDCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $319k granted · 5 linksMA'S HOUSE & BIPOC ART STUDIO INC — $75k granted · 6 linksTUTORING PLUS OF CAMBRIDGE INC — $168k granted · 8 linksJEAN APPOLON EXPRESSIONS — $96k granted · 4 linksBIOBUILDER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $50k granted · 10 linksCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC ACCESS CORP — $198k granted · 4 linksFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE — $792k granted · 5 linksFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEEMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE — $487k granted · 11 linksEAST END HOUSE — $554k granted · 6 linksEAST END HOUSECOMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC — $88k granted · 4 linksTRANSITION HOUSE — $119k granted · 3 linksSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS — $73k granted · 5 linksTHE ALGEBRA PROJECT — $84k granted · 7 linksLOOP LAB — $110k granted · 10 linksMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION — $37k granted · 6 linksCAMBRIDGE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $23k granted · 6 linksGREEN CAMBRIDGE INC — $18k granted · 13 linksTHE DANCE COMPLEX — $167k granted · 10 linksTECH GOES HOME — $80k granted · 16 linksRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER — $166k granted · 9 linksCENTRAL SQUARE THEATER — $154k granted · 5 linksCAMBRIDGE ART ASSOCIATION — $311k granted · 5 linksBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON — $188k granted · 10 linksCOMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVIL — $249k granted · 5 linksCambridge Health Alliance — named by 3 granteesCambridge Health AllianceCambridge Nonprofit Coalition — named by 3 granteesCambridge Nonprofit Coali…Barr Foundation — named by 4 granteesBarr FoundationCambridge Housing Authority — named by 3 granteesCambridge Housing Authori…Cambridge Public Schools — named by 6 granteesCambridge Public SchoolsCambridge Rindge and Latin School — named by 3 granteesCambridge Rindge and Lati…Cambridge Public Library — named by 3 granteesCambridge Public LibraryUnited Way of Massachusetts Bay — named by 3 granteesUnited Way of Massachuset…Massachusetts Institute of Technology — named by 3 granteesMassachusetts Institute o…
grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 143Coalition 46Affiliation 38Referral network 21Funding 14Fiscal sponsorship 6Shared facility 5Merger / affiliation 3

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Community Improvement, Crime & Legal, Education, Employment, Environment, Food & Nutrition, Health, Human Services, Philanthropy, Public Benefit, Recreation & Sports, Unclassified, Youth Development

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.

Cambridge Savings Cha…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncEastern Cambridge Fou…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bushrod H Campbell & …United Way Of Massach…Barr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…The Cabot Family Char…Wagner Foundation
Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation IncMA109.5× affinity58 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Wagner 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 Cambridge Community Foundation 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
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no gov · 440%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
  • Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of Somerville — 49% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Camp Starfish Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Cambridge School Volunteers Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Be Heardworld Inc Anna Myer and Dancers Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Design Museum Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • West Medford Community Center Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc — 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Cambridge Symphony Orchestra — 6% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
  • World Music Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Studio at 550 — 5% of income from government
  • Liars & Believers Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
  • The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc — 4% of income from government
  • World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
  • Vna Care Hospice Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Scm Community Transportation Corporation — 3% of income from government
  • Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Chamber Music Society Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The New Dance Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Sponsor Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/a Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre — 1% of income from government
  • ME2 Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Brattle Film Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jean Appolon Expressions Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
  • American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Foundry Consortium Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
44get no government money at all
50report 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 290 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 2024 (period ending 2025-06-30), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object 202503359349300410 · view filing · cambridgecf.org

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