· Private foundation
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston 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 $10k17 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k394 grants · $11M
- $50k–250k238 grants · $17M
- $250k+9 grants · $11M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $3,500,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY-SRO OUTSIDE | $2,100,000 |
| ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY | $1,100,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN INSTITUTE OF | $1,085,000 |
| REGIS COLLEGE | $1,035,000 |
| GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS | $1,000,000 |
| WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| FORDHAM UNIVERSITYCONTROLLER | $272,211 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BOSTON | $250,000 |
| LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC | $150,000 |
| MARIE ESTHER HEALTH CENTER INC | $150,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER | $150,000 |
| FOUND IN TRANSLATION | $150,000 |
| AARON'S PRESENTS INC | $135,000 |
| CENTERBOARD INC | $130,000 |
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, $14.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
817 repeat relationships — 526 still active in FY2024, 291 since wound down; 125 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.6M 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
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION5× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +84%- SSSalem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $11M · revenue +208%
Trustees of Tufts College7× · 2018–2024 · $8.6M · revenue +36%
Funded once
- VHVILLAGE HEALTH WORKSone grant, 2019 · $2.0M · revenue -17% · 30% of their budget
- RPRWANDA PARTNERS IN HEALTHone grant, 2017 · $1.3M
- UCUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $200k
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.
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…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
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…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of change in their communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
788 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. 788 of the 1,112 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Salem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE HEALTH WORKS ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LAHEY CLINIC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds GATES PHILANTHROPY PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom House Inc ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE NETWORK FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds RESPOND Inc ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
- Who funds WriteBoston Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 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: Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Boston Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill
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 Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston 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.
- Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Roxbury Youthworks Inc — 88% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
- Project Right — 71% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Programs for People Inc — 59% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services — 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Acre Family Child Care Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Boston Home Inc — 45% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
- The Community Family Inc — 41% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- New England Homes for the Deaf Inc — 36% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
- Marie Esther Health Center Inc — 22% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Nectar Community Investments Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Next Step Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeast Legal Aid Inc — 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- X-Cel Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Winchester Seniors Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- The Network for Social Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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.