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DCU for Kids
Distribution of charitable donations to registered 501(c)(3) organizations providing services and programs to children and families in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 73 grants below total $1,403,585 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,944,035 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $540,450 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $192k
- $10k–50k40 grants · $637k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $325k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell | $50,000 |
| Autism Speaks Inc | $50,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua | $40,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Waltham | $40,000 |
| The Home for Little Wanderers | $30,000 |
| The Wily Network | $25,000 |
| Jumpstart for Young Children Inc | $25,000 |
| Catie's Closet | $25,000 |
| Family Reach Foundation | $25,000 |
| Mass Insight Education & Research | $20,000 |
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, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 81% 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
150 repeat relationships — 72 still active in FY2024, 78 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7× · 2017–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +132%
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION5× · 2017–2022 · $875k · revenue +88%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $742k · revenue +116%
Funded once
PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +180%- BCB&G Clubs StonehamWakefieldone grant, 2017 · $15k
- JLJAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INCone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +6%
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.
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.
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
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,…
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…
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
185 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. 185 of the 198 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 BOOMER ESIASON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER MANCHESTER ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Greater Nashua Inc ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Catholic Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF ASSABET VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER HAVERHILL INC ↗
- Who funds HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WILY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LIFE MINISTRIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITIES UPHELD INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF WORCESTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER DERRY INC ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Southern New Hampshire ↗
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) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust
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 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.
- Luk Crisis Center Inc — 95% of income from government
- Thrive Support and Advocacy Inc — 93% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
- Pernet Family Health Service Inc — 52% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers 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
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 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
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 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 Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 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
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The Learning Center for the Deaf Inc — 9% 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
- 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 Inc — 6% of income from government
- Regional Environmental Council Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% 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 Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Worcester — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Worcester Center for Performing Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Urbanity Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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.
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