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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Thursday Morning Men's Breakfast Inc$1,000
Boston Collaborative$1,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
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

  • RB
    Ron Burton Training Village Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $279k · revenue +50%
  • ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $275k · revenue +47%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +13%

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%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Park Street School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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 budgetMASSACHUSETTS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPARK STREET SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA NEW LIFE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeighton Ford Ministries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Boston Foundation IncServant FoundationNatl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
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

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 Colatosti Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Colatosti Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 1% 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, 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.
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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 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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