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Colatosti Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$460k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20222025.

Youth Development$554kHealth$359kReligion$268kEducation$173kInternational$18kHuman Services$18kFood & Nutrition$15kPhilanthropy$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $124k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
$15,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$100,000
Mass General Brigham$100,000
Gordon Conwell Theological Seminary Inc$70,000
Elevate New England$50,000
Grace Chapel Inc$30,000
Gordon College$25,000
Ron Burton Training Village$22,000
Boston Higher Education Resource Center$20,000
Fostering Hope Foundation$15,000
Africa Inland Mission International Inc$12,000
Directors of Clinical Services$6,000
National Christian Foundation$3,000
New Life Ministries of New England Inc$1,500
Bengali Christian Ministry$1,000
Wounded Warriors$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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.

area typical 8%Fostering Hope Foundation: $15k → 9%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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX

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 edge
repeat funding

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 11 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

$1.2M
$33k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+29%

Still filing today

73%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EducationReligionHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • RB
    Ron Burton Training Village Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $279k · revenue +50%
  • ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +47%
  • TB
    The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $140k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • TM
    Thursday Morning Men's Breskfast Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • HF
    HOPE FOR HAITI
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • BT
    BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +61%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
2
Boston Theological Interreligious Consortium Inc

Boston theological interreligious consortium is a consortium of major theological schools in the boston area. through the consortium, theology students can cross-register for courses and share the library resources of all member…

Education
3
Berkshire Christian College

To provide for advent christian education through certificate programs and partnerships with gorden-conwell theological seminary and eastern university.

Education
4
New England Mission Foundation

To encourage and to increase the effective sharing of the gospel of jesus christ, and to call and enable believers to be his whole-life disciples, thereby helping extend christ's kingdom throughout the new england region.

Religion
5
Northeastern Seminary

Northeastern seminary strives to be a vibrant source for christian theological formation whose students are formed in a biblical vision of gracious christianity and impact wholeness to the world in an expansive array of vocations and…

Education
6
Center of Theological Inquiry

The Center of Theological Inquiry is an independent research institution with an international visiting scholar program which convenes researchers in an ideal setting for interdisciplinary inquiries where theology casts light on global…

Religion
7
North America Bible Institute

North America Bible Institute (NABI) is an evangelical graduate school, made up of students who are diverse in both ethnicity and ministry aims -- but united in great love for Jesus and his gospel. As a graduate school, NABI offers them…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

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

9
Ywam-Boston Inc

Christian movement dedicated to presenting Jesus Christ personally to this generation

Religion
10
Berkshire Institute for Christian Studies Inc

Berkshire institute for christian studies is a one to two year program of religious studies and nurture

11
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
12
Puritan Reformed Theological Seminary

To prepare students to serve christ and his church through biblical, experiential and practical ministry. prts provides theological training and instruction in accordance with the scriptures and the historic reformed creeds for promotion…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Street School 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.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child and Family ServicesVeteran Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and AdoptionSubstance Abuse TreatmentIndependent K-8 SchoolsChristian Missionary Organi…Education Equity LeadershipAt-Risk Youth Mentoring
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%26%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr19%26%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%15%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr19%1%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr14%41%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,331

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.

04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Ron Burton Training Village Inc — $278,500 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $150,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDMass General Brigham — $100,000 · OtherMass General BrighamGRACE CHAPEL INC — $30,500 · Other+12 more — $46,000 · Other+12 moreThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $140,000 · EducationThe Boston Higher Educa…Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc — $125,000 · EducationGordon-Conwell Theologi…GORDON COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationGORDON COLLEGE+3 more — $5,500 · EducationELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC — $275,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE NEW ENGLAND IN…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $200,000 · HealthDana-Farber Canc…+2 more — $3,000 · HealthFOSTERING HOPE FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Human ServicesBENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY — $3,000 · Human ServicesMATTHEW 28 MINISTRIES INC — $4,000 · ReligionBOSTON COLLABORATIVE INC — $1,000 · ReligionLeighton Ford Ministries Inc — $1,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 · ReligionHOPE FOR HAITI — $5,000 · International
Other$605,000Education$295,500Youth Development$275,000Health$203,000Human Services$18,000Religion$6,500International$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc — $278,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC — $275,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $140,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetGordon-Conwell Theological Seminary Inc — $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGORDON COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMATTHEW 28 MINISTRIES INC — $4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBENGALI CHRISTIAN MINISTRY — $3,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetBOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK STREET SCHOOL INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetA NEW LIFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLeighton Ford Ministries Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 IncMA13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Colatosti Family Foundation 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 · 70%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Gordon College1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Colatosti Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Colatosti Family Foundation 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 33 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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