· Private foundation
Dante Dieso Foundation Trust
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 $10k5 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MELROSE COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| FOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS | $3,000 |
| REVERE COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $2,925 |
| MELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE | $1,900 |
| MELROSE COUNCIL ON AGING | $362 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300 |
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 (FY18–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +69%
- GBGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY4× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +17%
- FYFOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +37%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +45%- LALUMINOSITY ASSOCIATESone grant, 2019 · $15k
- WSWASHINGTON SQUARE RESIDENCY LYNN HOME FOR WOMEN INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…
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.
THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Whitehead institute forges new frontiers in science, uncovering insights today that unlock the potential of tomorrow. our advances in genetics and genomics are now enabling us to tackle the complexities of life with unprecedented depth and…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 106 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds PORTAL TO HOPE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds Rebel Cause Inc ↗
- Who funds KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Melrose Cooperative Bank Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Everett Citizens Foundation Inc · Adelaide Breed Bayrd Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Piccolo Family Charitable Foundationinc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
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 Dante Dieso Foundation Trust 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.
- Portal to Hope — 81% of income from government
- The Community Family Inc — 41% of income from government
- New England Homes for the Deaf Inc — 36% of income from government
- Melrose Alliance Against Violence Inc — 19% of income from government
- Community Action Programs Inter-City in — 18% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Arts for Everett Inc — 5% of income from government
- Follow Your Art Community Studios Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Food Drive Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.