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Commodore Builders Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHRISTIAN J BARROS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME VET | $10,000 |
| ANDOVER JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| THE JULIE FUND | $10,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $7,500 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES | $5,000 |
| JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2022 · $125k · revenue +34%- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc3× · 2022–2024 · $69k · revenue +50%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2020–2023 · $55k · revenue +256%
Funded once
- THTHE HERREN PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -2%
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -100%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +23%
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 mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Salem Five Charitable Foundation 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.
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 33 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 2% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 45 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST SEBASTIAN SCHOOL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE JULIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CSL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds CEC SEABEE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
- Who funds ANDOVER JUNIOR FOOTBALL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM FIVE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds WEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds JOSHUA GLYNN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · GivenGain Foundation USA · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance 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 Commodore Builders Charitable 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.
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Bsa Foundation — 9% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.
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