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Charles Sanders Trust Uw
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $329k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER & HOME FOR VETERANS | $40,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND MERRIMACK VALLEY | $40,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $26,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $20,000 |
| ON THE RISE | $20,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $20,000 |
| HEADING HOME INC | $20,000 |
| CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC | $17,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER OFFICE OF DEVELOPMENT | $15,000 |
| WELLSPRING HOUSE INC | $15,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE BOSTON | $15,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS | $10,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $10,000 |
| FAMILY AID BOSTON | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $532k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- VVVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS6× · 2019–2024 · $245k · revenue +113%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC6× · 2019–2024 · $127k · revenue +67%
- CMCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TIThompson Island Outward Boundone grant, 2019 · $20k
- CSCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +81%
- PHProject Hopeone grant, 2019 · $15k
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.
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
Family promise north shore boston's mission is to prevent and end family homelessness. we promote access to economic opportunity and housing stability through a holistic, family-centered, community-based response.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Caspar's mission is to provide community-based services to those affected by substance use disorders. caspar offers a comprehensive array of outreach, shelter, stabilization, residential aftercare, and prevention services to meet the needs…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
The lynn shelter association (lsa) believes every person deserves a place to call home. lsa's mission is to provide a safe environment for each individual to define and pursue their goals for independence and self-sufficiency and offers…
Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Project Hope Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
23 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 40 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 VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CASA NUEVA VIDA ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSING FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Franklin Square House Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Frederick E Weber Charities Corp · Yawkey Foundation II · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return
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 Charles Sanders Trust Uw 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 81% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 70% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 37% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 35% of income from government
- Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc — 32% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 13% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 1% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 1% 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.
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