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Cambridge Community Foundation

Cambridge Community Foundation (ccf) is dedicated to improving the quality of life for the residents of cambridge. Founded in 1916, ccf serves the city through its civic leadership and support of nonprofit community organizations.

$4.0M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
162
Itemized grants FY2025
134
Organizations funded FY2024
44%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$3.4M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$10,250
Largest grant, FY2025
$200,000
Organizations funded a year
41 to 134
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
12
Total assets, FY2025
$69M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Cambridge Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving157$3.3M35%
FY2024134$3.8M44%
FY202396$2.8M22%
FY202241$642k27%
FY2021100$2.9M42%
FY202065$1.7M26%
FY201959$1.1M29%
FY201855$1.0M15%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where its grants go

Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food for Free Committee Inc$791,96383%
Fii - National$777,50552%
Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Inc$681,888712%
East End House Inc$554,48089%
Cambridge Community Center Inc$498,81589%
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House$486,519921%
Cambridge Public Schools$457,2447n/a
Bard College$428,80060%
Just-A-Start Corporation$423,50081%
Cambridge Art Association$311,330822%
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All grantees of Cambridge Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Food for Free Committee Inc$791,96383%
Fii - National$777,50552%
Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Inc$681,888712%
East End House Inc$554,48089%
Cambridge Community Center Inc$498,81589%
Margaret Fuller Neighborhood House$486,519921%
Cambridge Public Schools$457,2447n/a
Bard College$428,80060%
Just-A-Start Corporation$423,50081%
Cambridge Art Association$311,330822%
Solidaire Network Inc$300,00021%
Kendall Square Association Inc$289,00046%
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing$259,32983%
Community Action Agency of Somerville$249,32982%
Cambridge Camping Association Inc$229,18985%
Community Art Center Inc$225,71183%
The Federation of Massachusetts Farmers and Gardeners Markets Inc$206,19337%
Riverside Community Care Inc$205,60090%
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$203,60081%
Enroot Inc$200,50084%
Cambridge Public Access Corporation Inc$197,50092%
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp$195,00061%
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc$188,02281%
Agassiz Baldwin Community a Cambridge Corporation$185,50996%
Sponsor Inc$183,413213%
Tutoring Plus of Cambridge Inc$168,35699%
The New Dance Complex Inc$167,30075%
Rian Immigrant Center Inc$165,87752%
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/A Metro Housing Boston$164,32970%
Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association$162,73292%
The Mystic Valley Young Men's Christian Association$159,23641%
Central Square Theater Inc$154,10083%
Caspar Inc$153,51181%
Homeowner's Rehab Inc$152,00091%
Living Arts International Inc$150,00044%
Wilmington Friends School Inc$150,0006n/a
Friends of the Community Learning Center Inc$144,000743%
HomeStart Inc$140,00090%
Pathway for Immigrant Workers$135,000260%
Cambridge News Inc$128,3331n/a
Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc$125,87781%
The City School Inc$123,00033%
Transition House Inc$118,50071%
Action for Boston Community Development Inc$111,32940%
Innovators for Purpose Inc$108,72597%
Thrive Industries Inc$102,8122n/a
Central Square Business Association Inc$100,00028%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$100,00040%
Black Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc$100,00013%
International Crane Foundation Inc$100,00040%
Y2y Network Inc$97,04352%
Jean Appolon Expressions Inc$96,000613%
Adolescent Consultation Services Inc$93,00051%
The Urban Food Initiative Inc$92,00032%
Ocean River Institute Inc$91,000332%
The Young People's Project Inc$90,50041%
Community Dispute Settlement Center Inc$87,50094%
The Loop Lab Inc$87,00042%
Bridges Homeward Inc$84,54840%
The Algebra Project Inc$84,14353%
Compass Working Capital Inc$80,00080%
Tech Goes Home Incorporated$80,00061%
Ma's House & Bipoc Art Studio Inc$75,000154%
Science Club for Girls Inc$73,25084%
Hildebrand Family Self-Help Center Inc$71,95340%
Spoonfuls$70,60050%
Youth Guidance$70,00030%
Haymarket People's Fund Inc$70,00022%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$70,00090%
My Brothers Keeper Inc$68,60421%
WGBH Educational Foundation$67,80060%
Cambridge School Volunteers Inc$67,50092%
Improvisation Center of Boston Inc$67,500122%
The Welcome Project Inc$66,81325%
On the Rise Inc$64,25081%
World Music Inc$60,10051%
Camp Starfish Inc$60,00041%
Solutions at Work Inc$59,00088%
Cambridge Arts Council$55,0003n/a
Meeting Place Riversideccgci$55,0003n/a
Grassroots International Inc$50,25010%
Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center Inc$50,00043%
Biobuilder Educational Foundation$50,000210%
Design Museum Foundation Inc$50,00032%
Aspen Global Change Institute Inc$50,00011%
Longy School of Music$50,0002n/a
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc$49,32921%
Cambridge Jazz Foundation Inc$49,200460%
Community Servings Inc$48,00070%
Institute for Democratic Education in America Inc$47,50017%
Building Audacity$45,25043%
Young Mens Christian Association So$44,62521%
Charity Navigator$42,67611%
Resident Services Empowerment Inc$42,50025%
Furnishing Hope of Massachusetts Inc$40,50036%
World Central Kitchen Inc$40,16010%
Kind Inc$40,00030%
Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/A Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre$40,00042%
Visiting Nurse Association of Eastern Massachusetts Inc$40,00050%
La Colaborativa Inc$40,00020%
World Ocean School Inc$37,50022%
Mystic River Watershed Association Inc$36,54212%
Central Square Business Improvement District Inc$35,75011%
The Foundry Consortium Inc$35,50022%
The Somerville Community Corporation Inc$34,32920%
Midday Movement Series$34,1302n/a
Fenway Community Health Center Inc$33,00050%
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services Incorporated$33,00020%
The Possible Project Inc$32,50030%
Community Service Care Inc$30,50021%
Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated$30,16210%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$30,00010%
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$30,00020%
Earthjustice$30,00020%
Family Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc$30,00020%
Economic Mobility Pathways Inc$30,00020%
Cambridge Carnival International Inc$29,500312%
The Hurricane Island Foundation$29,00020%
Found in Translation Inc$28,54831%
Elizabeth Peabody House Association$27,82921%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$27,50021%
Kingdom Empowerment Center$26,0003n/a
Studio at 550$26,0001n/a
Impact Hub Trust$26,00023%
Cambridge Center for Adult Education$25,00021%
Friends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc$25,00024%
ACT Institute Inc$25,0001n/a
Boston Impact Initiative Fund$25,00010%
The Henry Buckner School Inc$25,00014%
Black History in Action for Cambridgeport$25,000118%
Union Society Inc co Nutter McClennen & Fish LLP$25,000150%
Supervised Visitation Network Inc$25,00023%
Project Citizenship Inc$23,74021%
The Cambridge Historical Society$23,45033%
Phillips Brooks House Association Inc$23,00030%
Museum of Science$23,00010%
Rescuing Leftover Cuisine Inc$22,00020%
Resist Inc$22,00020%
The Accomplis Collective Inc$21,00020%
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc$20,00010%
Me2 Orchestra Inc$20,00023%
About Fresh Inc$20,00020%
Everybody Gotta Eat Inc$20,0001n/a
Caritas Communities Inc$20,0001n/a
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$20,00020%
Mount Auburn Hospital$19,37520%
Homeless Empowerment Project Inc$18,00027%
Third Sector New England Inc$18,00020%
Somerville-Cambridge Elder Services$18,0001n/a
Green Cambridge Inc$18,00016%
Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America$18,0002n/a
Joyweavers Incorporated$17,50026%
Commonwealth Kitchen Inc$17,50020%
VNA Care Hospice Inc$17,10920%
AIDS Action Committee of Massachusetts Inc$17,00020%
1for3org Inc$16,50021%
Indigenous Cultures Institute$16,50023%
Aminga Youth Sports Development Program Corporation$16,5002n/a
826 Boston Inc$16,50020%
Black Heritage Festival of La$16,2361n/a
Scholars Before Athletes$16,0001n/a
Cambridge Neighborhood Apartment Housing Services Inc$15,50020%
Notionpicture LLC$15,3501n/a
Anikaya Akhra Inc$15,25018%
Cambridge Hip-Hop Collective Inc$15,100215%
Vla Dance LLC$15,0602n/a
Innovation Studio Inc$15,00010%
Black Men of Labor Inc$15,0001n/a
Local Media Foundation$15,00020%
Friendshipworks Inc$15,00011%
Grant Foundation Inc$15,00010%
Gallery 263 Inc$15,000212%
Everybody Gotta Eat Projects Inc$15,0001n/a
Places to Thrive$15,000134%
Heading Home Inc$15,00010%
Community Conversations Sister to Sister Inc$15,00024%
West Medford Community Center Inc$15,00018%
Boston Dance Alliance Inc$14,60021%
Apprentice Learning Inc$13,00020%
Women's Educational Center Inc Cambridge Women's Center$13,00023%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$13,00020%
Boston Taekwondo Project Inc$12,50014%
Huntington Theatre Co Inc$12,50010%
Pennsylvania State University$12,5001n/a
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$12,5001n/a
Brattle Film Foundation Inc$12,50011%
Asian American Resource Workshop Inc$11,50011%
Cambridge Symphony Orchestra$11,5001n/a
Paine Senior Services$11,0762n/a
Habitat for Humanity Capital District Inc$11,00010%
The Bridge Project Inc$11,0001n/a
47 Palmer Inc$10,76811%
Global Fund for Women Inc$10,28910%
Lawyers Clearinghouse on Affordable Housing and Homelessness Inc$10,00011%
Asylum Support Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
Cambridge Medical Care Foundation Inc$10,00016%
Arts Connect International Inc$10,00012%
Boston Chamber Music Society Inc$10,00014%
Somerville Hispanic Association for Community Deve$10,0001n/a
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC Also AKA BCCA & DBA Cambridge Community Center for the Arts (CCCA)$10,00017%
Handcuffs 2 Cuffslinks$10,0001n/a
Uaspire Inc$10,00010%
Year Up Inc$10,00010%
Community Change Inc$10,00013%
Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp$10,0001n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc$10,00010%
Community Cooks Inc$10,00011%
Street Theory Collective$10,00012%
Liars & Believers Inc$10,00019%
Land Together Dba Insight Garden Program$10,0001n/a
American Repertory Theatre Co Inc$10,00010%
Massachusetts Production Coalition Inc$10,00015%
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc$10,00010%
Our Lady of the Lake University of San Antonio$10,00010%
Sustainable Business Network of Massachusetts Inc$10,0001n/a
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc$10,00010%
Friends of the Medford Family Network Corp$10,0001n/a
The Family Center Inc$10,00010%
Cambridge Neighbors Inc$10,0001n/a
Boston Building Materials Coop Charitable and Educational Fund$10,00011%
Bikes Not Bombs Inc$10,00010%
Comeunity One Stop$10,000112%
Be Heardworld Inc Anna Myer and Dancers Inc$10,00019%
Arlekin Players Theatre$10,00012%
SCM Community Transportation Corporation$10,00011%
Cambridge Math Circle Inc$8,5001n/a
Cambridge Health Alliance Foundation Inc$8,48510%
First Church in Cambridge Congregational Ucc$8,2831n/a
Lesley University$8,00010%
Ethiopian Education and Development Consortium Inc$7,5481n/a
Breaktime United Inc$7,50010%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$7,50010%
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School Foundation Inc$7,50013%
Second Chances Inc$7,50013%
Actors' Shakespeare Project$7,50011%
Tagv Teens Advocating a Global Vision Inc$7,5001n/a
Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc$7,50011%
Boston Opera Collaborative$7,46515%
All Court Enrichment Inc$7,0001n/a
Boston Early Music Festival Inc$7,00010%
Newtowne School Incorporated$7,0001n/a
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$7,00010%
Charles River Watershed Association Inc$7,00010%
Sarasa Inc$7,000111%
First Parish in Cambridge$7,0001n/a
Omayra Amaya Flamenco Dance Company Inc$6,7901n/a
The Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc$6,50010%
Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc$6,50011%
Community Asset Development Re-Defining Education$6,50010%
Every Voice Texas dba Asian Texans for Justice$6,50010%
Citizens of the World Inc$6,2501n/a
Beyond Bond and Legal Defense$6,0001n/a
Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc$6,00010%
Ascentria Care Alliance Inc$6,00010%
Women of Color Entrepreneurs Inc$6,00012%
Cambridge Local First$6,00017%
Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc$6,00011%
Project Hope Alliance$5,70010%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$5,50010%
Culturehouse Incorporated$5,30011%
Girls Envisioning More Inc$5,2001n/a
Reach Out and Read Inc$5,10010%
New England Bangladeshi American Foundation$5,04815%

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($437k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Cambridge Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 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, 1.1% 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 budgetCentral Square Business Association Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetGreater Boston Legal Services Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBlack Economic Council of Massachusetts Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetInternational Crane Foundation Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetY2y Network Inc: $97,043 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetJean Appolon Expressions Inc: $96,000 over 6y, 13% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Cambridge Community Foundation

How much does Cambridge Community Foundation give?
Cambridge Community Foundation reported 162 itemized grants totaling $3,438,006, out of $4,003,935 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 134 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Cambridge Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (19%), Education (15%), Arts & Culture (12%).
Who are Cambridge Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Food for Free Committee Inc ($792k), Fii - National ($778k), Cambridge Economic Opportunity Committee Inc ($682k).
Does Cambridge Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Cambridge Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Cambridge Community Foundation based?
Cambridge Community Foundation is based in Cambridge, MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 290 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024 (period ending 2025-06-30), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object 202503359349300410 · view filing · cambridgecf.org

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