· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 18 DEGREES | $20,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| THOM CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES | $20,000 |
| HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $20,000 |
| NURTURY | $20,000 |
| ELLIS MEMORIAL AND ELDRIDGE HOUSE | $20,000 |
| EAST END HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION | $20,000 |
| EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC | $20,000 |
| MA SOCIETY PREVENTION OF CRUELTY | $20,000 |
| MASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against -6% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 1D18 DEGREES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +48%
- CCCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +29%
EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +121%
Funded once
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -6%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 16 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 18 DEGREES INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS A THOM CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds EAST END HOUSE 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Dean Foundation Children (Ima) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dean Foundation Children (Ima). Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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