· Private foundation
Ciccolo Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k49 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mass General Hospital | $75,000 |
| Northeastern University | $50,000 |
| West Suburban YMCA | $50,000 |
| Suffolk University | $50,000 |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation | $25,000 |
| Global Smile Foundation | $21,067 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $20,000 |
| West End House Inc | $10,000 |
| Just Zero | $10,000 |
| Rosie's Place | $10,000 |
| Food Link MA | $10,000 |
| METCO College Scholarship Fund of Lexington | $10,000 |
| The Boston Foundation Inc | $10,000 |
| The Lexington Observer | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY17–24, $212k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
76 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 11 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $223k · revenue +110%
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2024 · $175k · revenue +9%- WSWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $154k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- TDTHE DEAN CENTERone grant, 2019 · $13k
- MBMASS BUDGET & POLICY CENTER INC (MASSBUDGET)one grant, 2017 · $10k
Franciscan Hospital for Childrengraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +60%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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,…
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…
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.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The bostonian society sustains the old state house and its collections to explore the vital debates about self-government that were sparked here during boston's revolutionary era and that still animate our civic life today.
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…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West End House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
94 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. 94 of the 149 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL SMILE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HERTER PARK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METCO COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF LEXINGTON ↗
- Who funds ALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON INTERFAITH OUTREACH FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUST ZERO ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON OBSERVER INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds REAGLE MUSIC THEATRE OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
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 · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · President and Fellows of Harvard College · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
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 Ciccolo Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Friends of Herter Park Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Special Needs Arts Programs Inc — 4% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Land's Sake Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% 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.