How much did DCU for Kids grant in FY2024?

Health$6.7MYouth Development$3.6MHuman Services$2.0MEducation$855kRecreation & Sports$440kArts & Culture$399kPhilanthropy$290kCrime & Legal$238kCommunity Improvement$165kOther$3.8M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

disorderslaheybeth israelneurofibromatosisclinicnebhumass chan

2019

cambodianfactorsyouthslaheybeth israelneurofibromatosisnebh

2020

south sudanesegreater bostonssef whole-familyumass chanchallengedinternetpersonal finance

2021

social skillurbanityconnectionsdeafzoodancechildrens

2022

experiential learningnavy sealhanover theatrepersonal financeeconomicsresiliencetakes

2023

beth israelnebhisrael laheyisrael deaconesslahey clinicbilhexeter

2024

hanover theatrepersonal financeeconomicseducatorsnationwideannuallymillion

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k26 grants · $192k
$10k–50k40 grants · $637k
$50k–250k6 grants · $325k
$250k+1 grant · $250k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

Boomer Esiason Foundation$250,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence$60,000
Boys & Girls Club of Worcester$60,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of MetroWest$55,000
Boys & Girls Club of Manchester$50,000
Autism Speaks Inc$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell$50,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua$40,000
Boys & Girls Club of Waltham$40,000
The Home for Little Wanderers$30,000
Catie's Closet$25,000
The Wily Network$25,000
Jumpstart for Young Children Inc$25,000
Family Reach Foundation$25,000
Floating Hospital for Children at Tufts Medical Center$20,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 7%. 81% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$18M · 151 repeat orgs$506k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.

151 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 79 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

151

Total granted

$18M

$491k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%

+43%

Still filing today

93%

76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +98%
Boston Medical Center Corporation
5× · 2017–2022 · $875k · revenue +71%
BG
Boys & Girls Club of Worcester
8× · 2017–2024 · $742k · revenue +65%

Funded once

Project Breadgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +193%
JM
JL McKeown B&G of Woburn
one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -31%
LS
Life Saver Ministries Inc
one grant, 2019 · $15k

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.

Cutchins Programs for Children

For children and families to have access to compassionate and transformative mental health care.

Health

Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The mission of child care of the berkshires is to strengthen families through high quality child care, education, support services and advocacy.

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Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts Children's Alliance (MACA) pioneers innovative approaches to support child abuse victims. We advance effective interventions, deliver impactful educational programs and advocate for informed legislative support.

Human Services

Friends of the Children - Boston Inc

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Human Services

Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education

East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services

Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield Inc

Developmental programs for children

Youth Development

Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc

To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training

—

New Hampshire Children's Health

Health

Judge Baker Children's Center

Judge baker children's center promotes the best possible mental health of children and families.

Human Services

United Children's Services of

Children's services

Human Services

Worcester Youth and Family Counseling

Counseling/therapy provided by licensed mental health professionals in areas such as suicide prevention, child abuse, domestic violence, marriage counseling, and other youth areas. mentoring targeted at-risk youth utilizing community…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc and the most unlike its peers is StandUp for Kids. 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 39 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%3/199

the rest of the field

2,134/23,458

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.

05the grantee network

185 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

177/185

Grantees still filing

155/185

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Health$6,708,650Youth Development$3,637,500Other$4,516,300Human Services$1,988,335Education$854,500Recreation & Sports$440,000Arts & Culture$398,500

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.

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA104.8× affinity82 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) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Greater Worcester Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Health Resources in Action 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 organisation DCU for Kids 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

’20’21’22’23’24

Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
Luk Crisis Center Inc — 83% of income from government
Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
Mothers for Justice and — 43% of income from government
Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance — 41% of income from government
Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
Aspire Developmental Services Inc — 34% of income from government
Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell — 27% of income from government
Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
Community Harvest Project Inc — 18% of income from government
Greater Lawrence Community Action — 15% of income from government
Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
Family Services of the Merrimack — 11% of income from government
Community Day Care Center of — 11% of income from government
Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
Building Futures Inc — 7% of income from government
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — 6% of income from government
Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet — 5% of income from government
The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
The New England Center for Children Inc — 3% of income from government
Girls Incorporated of Greater — 3% of income from government
Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
Old Sturbridge Inc — 2% of income from government
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation — 2% of income from government
Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Greater — 1% of income from government
Mass Insight Education and Research — 1% of income from government
New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
Discovery Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
Children's Hospital Corporation — 0% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

59get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 232912197 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on John Andrew Mazie Memorial Foundation, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 33% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to DCU for Kids?

Find your warmest path to DCU for Kids through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DCU for Kids

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?