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Dante Dieso Foundation Trust at a glance

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Dante Dieso Foundation Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$18k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$184kArts & Culture$139kHealth$124kYouth Development$87kFood & Nutrition$42kHuman Services$28kEnvironment$20kCrime & Legal$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,925
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND: $100 → 9%AFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $500 → 11%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF GREATER LYNN: $250 → 10%PORTAL TO HOPE: $5k → 8%PORTAL TO HOPE: $5k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $4k → 8%THE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $3k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES: $1k → 8%NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%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
WI
MI
NY
MA
IN
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$442k · 31 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
74

Total granted

$442k
$244k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+38%

Still filing today

45%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationReligionYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    2× · 2017–2018 · $75k · revenue +91%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $57k · revenue +17%
  • FY
    FOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $51k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +45%
  • LA
    LUMINOSITY ASSOCIATES
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
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 Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
The Broad Institute Inc

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.…

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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.

Health
5
Northeastern University
Education
6
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary

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.…

Health
7
Massachusetts Historical Society

To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.

Arts & Culture
8
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
9
Western New England University

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…

Education
10
Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research

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…

Health
11
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
12
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 106 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/44
Grantees still filing
33/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYIndividual grant recipient: $40,855 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST MARYS CHURCH: $39,767 · OtherST MARYS CHURCHMALDEN YMCA: $27,000 · OtherMALDEN YMCAREVERE COMMUNITY SCHOOL: $22,499 · OtherMEDFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $20,515 · OtherSAUGUS ACTION VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $20,000 · OtherREVERE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE: $17,650 · OtherLUMINOSITY ASSOCIATES: $15,000 · Other+71 more: $153,732 · Other+71 moreGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $56,660 · Arts & CultureGREATER BOSTON STAGE …FOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC: $51,450 · Arts & CultureFOLLOW YOUR ART COMMU…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHE…REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureREHEARSAL FOR LIFE IN…+5 more: $2,600 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Corporation: $75,000 · HealthChildren's H…+4 more: $1,700 · HealthPORTAL TO HOPE: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $6,600 · Human ServicesNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,975 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $1,000 · Human Services+3 more: $850 · Human ServicesBREAD OF LIFE INC: $11,344 · ReligionZEN NORTH SHORE: $1,000 · ReligionBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $8,380 · Youth DevelopmentTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $500 · Youth DevelopmentMELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $4,750 · Crime & Legal
Other$432,018Arts & Culture$128,210Health$76,700Human Services$23,425Religion$12,344Youth Development$8,880Crime & Legal$4,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY: $56,660 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC: $51,450 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC: $11,344 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPORTAL TO HOPE: $10,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INTER-CITY IN: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $8,380 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FAMILY INC: $6,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $4,975 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetMELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC: $4,750 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,539 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD DRIVE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Patton Homestead Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetMALDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY: $850 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC: $750 over 1y, 32% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH SCHOOL INC: $550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPrevent Cancer Foundation aka Cancer Research & Prevention Fndn: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN RESOURCE CENTER OF WEST MICHIGAN: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN INDIAN COLLEGE FUND: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARTS FOR EVERETT INC: $250 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOSEPH BRIERE FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $100 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.

  • 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 BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PORTAL TO HOPE ↗
  • 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 KING SOLOMON HUMANITARIAN FOUNDATION FOR HANDICAPPED CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds Rebel Cause Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD COUNSELING AND COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds MELROSE ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Melrose Cooperative B…Salem Five Charitable…Everett Citizens Foun…Adelaide Breed Bayrd …Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust - East…Cambridge Savings Cha…American Tower Corpor…Piccolo Family Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA32× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
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)
1rely 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.

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 106 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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