· Private foundation
Charles River Neighborhood
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEXT ARTSPIANO SUMMIT | $1,200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NCNEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC2× · 2018–2019 · $9k · revenue +15%
- NANEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +25%
- CPCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- FCFIG CITY NEWSone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NHNEWTON HISTORY MUSEUMone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCRT FOR ECOLOGICAL TEACHING & LEARNone grant, 2020 · $2k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Family access empowers and strengthens families and the community by providing programs that nurture child development, prevent trauma, promote effective parenting skills, and support working parents. for more than 117 years, family access…
The mission of the arts association in newton county is to encourage youth and adults in the community to participate in the arts both as audience and as artists and to present world-class artists to all the citizens of the metro atlanta…
Promote and preserve open space in Newton MA; function as local land trust (holding Conservation Easements for 8 city-owned parks and 1 private property); conduct educational walks and webinars for the public use of open spaces; improve…
To enable older newton residents to age-in-place with independence and dignity through community support.
Agriculture promotion
To promote and carry out public educational and charitable activities including the creation, publication and distribution of news and information in the city of newton, massachusetts and surrounding areas; to promote an informed citizenry…
Historic newton connects our community with its history in order to enrich future generations.
To provide quality & affordable education programs in the chinese language and culture to the interested individuals in the greater boston area.
Support the newton public library
To provide affordable space for artists, performers and educators. to offer arts progamming in northampton massachusetts.
To create high quality theatre with a focus on womens voices. Professional productions, educational programs, and community outreach foster civically engaged audiences and the joy of live theatre.
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SUZUKI SCHOOL OF NEWTON INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY H DOW MEMORIAL LEGAL ASSISTANCE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ART CENTER IN NEWTON INC (FKA) NEWTON ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Spark Newton Corporation ↗
- Who funds NEWTON CULTURAL ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WABAN IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JB LINE INC ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Pomroy Rebecca Foundation Inc (Cust) · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Charles River Neighborhood funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Charles River Neighborhood. Bigger dots raise more.
- Newton Cultural Alliance Inc: 6% of income from government
- Suzuki School of Newton Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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