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Castle Square Tenants Organization 2020 Charitable Trust

CASTLE SQUARE TENANTS ORGANIZATION 2020 CHARITABLE TRUST (the 'trust') was formed to support the activities of castle square tenants organization, inc.

$355k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$39,555
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHICA INC$40,000
THE BOSTON HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC$40,000
MORE THAN WORDS$40,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$40,000
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$40,000
WRITE BOSTON INC$39,555
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC$35,000
SOCCER UNITY PROJECT$30,000
PHILANTHROPY MA INC$20,000
TENANTS' DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
BUSINESS UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING AND DEVELOPMENT$10,000
URBANITY DANCE$10,000
02The need
02

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 (FY24–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $40k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $40k → 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 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
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
2
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
3
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
4
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
5
Boston Architectural College

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

6
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
7
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

8
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
9
Tenacity Inc

The organization's mission is youth development and life-skill development activities.

Recreation & Sports
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

11
The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education
12
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Soccer Unity Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBOR…UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $40,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEME…The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $40,000 · EducationThe Boston Higher Educati…WriteBoston Inc — $39,555 · EducationWriteBoston IncMORE THAN WORDS INC — $40,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INCYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $35,000 · OtherYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INCCHICA INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICA INCSOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCCER UNITY PROJECT I…PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $20,000 · PhilanthropyBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 · Community ImprovementTENANTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 · Housing & ShelterURBANITY DANCE INC — $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$80,000Education$79,555Other$75,000Youth Development$70,000Philanthropy$20,000Community Improvement$10,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHICA INC — $40,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetWriteBoston Inc — $39,555 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOCCER UNITY PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTENANTS DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetURBANITY DANCE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 IncMA18.8× affinity7 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 · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Castle Square Tenants Organization 2020 Charitable Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc38% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc24% of income from government
  • Chica Inc12% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc9% of income from government
  • Soccer Unity Project Inc6% of income from government
  • Urbanity Dance Inc1% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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Find your warmest path to Castle Square Tenants Organization 2020 Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 12 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, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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