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Clipper Ship Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$100k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$16MYouth Development$3.0MHuman Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.7MEmployment$950kCrime & Legal$650kHealth$480kEducation$315kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INDEPENDENT SECTOR$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $50k → 10%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $10k → 7%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $30k → 11%LA COLABORATIVA: $75k → 16%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $10k → 7%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $50k → 10%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $25k → 11%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $10k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $40k → 10%HARBOR COV: $50k → 16%HOPEWELL: $150k → 7%FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM: $25k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $50k → 10%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $50k → 10%HARBORCOV INC: $13k → 16%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $74k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $74k → 8%CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $60k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $90k → 10%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $80k → 10%SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $30k → 16%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $70k → 10%SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $25k → 16%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $60k → 10%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $100k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $500 → 16%TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $50k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC: $100k → 16%PROJECT RIGHT INC: $10k → 16%ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE: $50k → 16%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS: $8k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $150k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $100k → 16%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER: $25k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS: $44k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.0M · 32 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +58% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 32 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
67

Total granted

$7.0M
$3.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+58%

Still filing today

100%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WE
    WEST END HOUSE INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $725k · revenue +35%
  • JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $525k · revenue +68%
  • BO
    BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
    5× · 2018–2022 · $460k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • VC
    VANGUARD CHARITABLE PARNASSUS FUNDS
    one grant, 2022 · $383k
  • BO
    BREAD OF LIFE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +11%
  • HI
    HOPEWELL INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
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
3
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
4
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
5
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
6
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

—
7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
9
Rcap Solutions Inc Formerly Rural Housing Improvement Inc

Rental assistance received from a government agency under section 8 of the housing assistance payments program. providing technical assistance and training to low-income rural communities and other agencies in order to provide or enhance…

—
10
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
11
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

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

—
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; the most unlike its peers is Pass It On Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

90 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. 90 of the 103 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/90
Grantees still filing
76/90
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $15,529,873 · PhilanthropyVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM+4 more: $245,900 · PhilanthropyMORE THAN WORDS INC: $450,000 · OtherMORE THAN WORDS INCFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $400,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON IN…VANGUARD CHARITABLE PARNASSUS FUNDS: $382,767 · OtherVANGUARD CHARITABLE…The Haven Project Inc: $180,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $150,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $150,000 · OtherBREAD OF LIFE INC: $250,000 · OtherBREAD OF LIFE INCROOT NS INC: $225,000 · Other+51 more: $2,310,000 · Other+51 morePLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $300,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $250,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $207,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $140,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $100,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $75,000 · Human Services+15 more: $454,000 · Human ServicesUTEC Inc: $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $425,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentY2Y NETWORK INC: $160,000 · Youth Development+3 more: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $460,000 · HealthHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $300,000 · HealthEMH Recovery Inc: $100,000 · Health+1 more: $15,000 · HealthWEST END HOUSE INC: $725,000 · Recreation & SportsJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $525,000 · EmploymentBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $100,000 · Employment
Philanthropy$15,775,773Other$4,497,767Human Services$1,961,500Youth Development$1,265,000Health$875,000Recreation & Sports$725,000Employment$625,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetVANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM: $15,529,873 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC: $725,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $525,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $460,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUTEC Inc: $450,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $450,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $425,000 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $400,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetHEALTH IMPERATIVES INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC: $300,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $250,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetROOT NS INC: $225,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC: $207,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetROCA INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc: $180,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetY2Y NETWORK INC: $160,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetHOPEWELL INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $150,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $140,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON CASA INC: $125,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetTHE WILY NETWORK: $125,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetHOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS INC: $125,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $100,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetLYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetYEAR UP INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOVE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetPLANNING OFFICE FOR URBAN AFFAIRS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEMH Recovery Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $100,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $85,000 over 3y, 9.9% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $70,900 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHARBORCOV INC: $62,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $60,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $55,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC): $50,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budget
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.

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.

United Way Of Massachusetts Bay IncMA94.2× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Clipper Ship Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Clipper Ship Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Roxbury Youthworks Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Health Imperatives Inc: 79% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Harborcov Inc: 76% of income from government
  • Project Right: 71% of income from government
  • Plummer Youth Promise Inc: 64% of income from government
  • The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Dove Inc: 60% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: 28% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Emh Recovery Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Lynn Shelter Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Watch Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Granada House Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • West End House Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc: 1% of income from government
  • X-Cel Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
11rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Clipper Ship Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 103 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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