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Cutting E M Uw Bo a H Winn Et Als

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.

$73k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Youth Development$178kPhilanthropy$87kEmployment$80kHealth$70kCrime & Legal$53kEducation$47kReligion$39kScience & Tech$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST$9,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MA$8,000
METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM$8,000
MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES$7,500
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$5,000
UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC$5,000
ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES$5,000
READ TO A CHILD INC$5,000
CROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC$5,000
MA ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE INC$5,000
CITY OF MARLBOROUGH$125
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%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.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$575k · 14 repeat orgs$54k to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
4

Total granted

$575k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+81%

Still filing today

57%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
HealthYouth DevelopmentEducationPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +66%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $87k · revenue +16%
  • EO
    EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +102%

Funded once

  • SH
    SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +81%
  • FS
    FRAMINGHAM STATE COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
  • NI
    NATIONAL INVENTORS HALL OF FAME
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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
Metrowest Center for Independent Living Inc

Mwcil enhances the full participation of persons with disabilities in the community.

2
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

3
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.

4
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
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
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
7
Autism Services Association Inc

Provides community employment and awareness, vocational and developmental skills, to young adults and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities in central and eastern massachusetts. transportation services are also provided.…

8
Massachusetts Advocates for Children Inc

Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…

Civil Rights
9
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.

10
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
11
Family Promise Metrowest Inc

To transform the lives of families with children facing homelessness by mobilizing a diverse community to provide shelter, education and comprehensive support.

Housing & Shelter
12
Arc Massachusetts Inc

Advocacy & education on intellectual and developmental disabilities

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eliot Community Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mab Community Services 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

13 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. 13 of the 22 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER S OF CENTRAL MASS — $67,500 · OtherBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER S OF CENTRAL MASSMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC — $52,500 · OtherMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INCUNITARIAN CHURCH OF — $24,500 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCH OFJOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEM FOUNDATION — $22,000 · OtherJOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEM FOUNDATIONCONN INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDOAK HILL — $15,000 · OtherCONN INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDOAK HILLUNITARIAN CHURCH OF MARLBOROUGH — $14,000 · OtherUNITARIAN CHURCH OF MARLBOROUGHCITY OF MARLBOROUGH — $10,125 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $10,000 · Other+3 more — $15,750 · Other+3 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $102,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SI…UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC — $87,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF T…EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC — $80,000 · EmploymentEMPLOYMENT OPT…THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $26,000 · HealthTHE METROWES…MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $24,100 · HealthMAB COMMUNIT…SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $15,000 · HealthSPECTRUM HEA…ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $5,000 · HealthELIOT COMMUN…READ TO A CHILD INC — $40,000 · EducationCROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC — $5,000 · EducationHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $5,000 · Human Services
Other$231,375Youth Development$110,000Philanthropy$87,000Employment$80,000Health$70,100Education$45,000Human Services$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 budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC — $102,000 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC — $87,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetEMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC — $52,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $26,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $24,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS CONTINUUM INC — $5,000 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.

  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC
  • Who funds EMPLOYMENT OPTIONS INC
  • Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC
  • Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC
  • Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC
  • Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
  • Who funds SPECTRUM HEALTH SYSTEMS INC
  • Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC
  • Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
  • Who funds CROSSROADS CONTINUUM 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.

The Sudbury FoundationMA24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sudbury Foundation · Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · MutualOne Charitable Foundation · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · DCU for Kids · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Boston Foundation Inc

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 Cutting E M Uw Bo a H Winn Et Als 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 · 30%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 21%
  • Employment Options Inc100% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc69% of income from government
  • Spectrum Health Systems Inc33% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children21% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc18% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc10% of income from government
  • Crossroads Continuum Inc5% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.

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 22 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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