· Private foundation
Dean Foundation Children (Ima)
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST END HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| 18 DEGREES | $20,000 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $20,000 |
| NURTURY | $20,000 |
| EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC | $20,000 |
| MA SOCIETY PREVENTION OF CRUELTY | $20,000 |
| ELLIS MEMORIAL AND ELDRIDGE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| MASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $20,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| THOM CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $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 (FY20–25, $430k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% 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 +48% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 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 FY2025, 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
- CCCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +29%
EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +121%- DADOUGLAS A THOM CLINIC INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +10%
Funded once
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · 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.
Collaborates to improve the quality and impact of early education and care, enhancing the development of young children and strengthening families in central massachusetts.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To provide quality daycare and early childhood education to families of brookline and greater boston.
To provide high quality care and education for young children and their families at harvard university and surrounding communities.
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…
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
To be a learning community where children, from infants to school age, come together with experienced and responsive teachers to learn about themselves, each other, and the world.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
The organization's missions is to provide quality child care to children of teachers in the brookline, ma school system and others as per qualification procedures.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Boston Social Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is City Mission Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS A THOM CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Franklin Square House Foundation Inc · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving 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 Dean Foundation Children (Ima) 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.
- 18 Degrees Inc — 66% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 51% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 34% of income from government
- Douglas a Thom Clinic Inc — 30% of income from government
- Child and Family Services Inc — 22% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 17% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 13% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 2% 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.