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Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$910k
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Arts & Culture$785kHuman Services$342kYouth Development$235kHealth$195kHousing & Shelter$140kReligion$110kEducation$95kCommunity Improvement$90kOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k43 grants · $860k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE MASSACHUSETTS$40,000
HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC$30,000
BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC$25,000
BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS (BCA)$25,000
HILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF HELP CENTER$25,000
DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING$23,000
CITYSPROUTS INC$20,000
JEREMIAH PROGRAM$20,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD$20,000
ELIOT SCHOOL TRUSTEES$20,000
CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND$20,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$20,000
PAIGE COMPANY INC DBA PAIGE ACADEMY$20,000
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$20,000
02The need
03

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 (FY24–25, $262k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ROOM TO GROW INC: $15k → 28%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $12k → 7%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $20k → 16%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $10k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $20k → 7%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $10k → 8%PROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD: $20k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $20k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $15k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC: $25k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $30k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $30k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.2M · 29 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
57

Total granted

$1.2M
$912k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
0%

Still filing today

79%
23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $295k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHealthRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
  • DN
    DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING
    2× · 2024–2025 · $43k · revenue +2%
  • COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $40k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • DC
    DIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • BH
    BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • BC
    BOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS
    one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

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
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
3
Central Square Theater Inc

Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Ballet Inc

The heart of Boston Ballet is the human experience. Through our living and breathing art, we forge human connections-between artist and attendee, teacher and trainee, friend and newcomer, one's outer and inner self. Dance history is human…

Arts & Culture
5
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
6
The Boston Children's School Inc

To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

Education
7
The Childrens Museum

Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…

Arts & Culture
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
10
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
11
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
12
Hubweek Inc

Hubweek, inc. is an organization dedicated to igniting and unleashing the potential of boston. we guide the doers, dreamers, and makers that define who we are as a city and what our future will be. our purpose is to help build a better…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Makanda Project Organization Inc. 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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr20%41%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr20%45%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr13%28%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/52
the rest of the field
10%
1,770/17,223

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 102 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
15/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · OtherBOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS (BCA) — $50,000 · Other+61 more — $1,157,000 · Other+61 moreZUMIX INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INCCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC …ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMA…ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureARTS FOR LEARNIN…THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF…BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YOUTH SYM…THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER …CITY STRINGS UNITED INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureCITY STRINGS UNI…BOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON STRING AC…MASSPOETRY INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMASSPOETRY INCACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $20,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW AD…BROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesBROOKVIEW HOU…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem B…South Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $22,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Y…BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINAT…REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND …HOPEWELL INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INCUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $20,000 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH …ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $100,000 · HealthDIMOCK COMMU…PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $75,000 · HealthPLANNED PARE…DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $43,000 · HealthDE NOVO CENT…HILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC — $25,000 · HealthHILDEBRAND F…ADVOCATES INC — $15,000 · HealthADVOCATES IN…WALKER INC — $40,000 · EducationCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC — $20,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $10,000 · EducationWEST END HOUSE INC — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 · Recreation & SportsJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $20,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,257,000Arts & Culture$355,000Human Services$282,000Health$258,000Education$120,000Recreation & Sports$70,000Housing & Shelter$60,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKVIEW HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $43,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetZUMIX INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL — $40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBALLETROX INC — $40,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWALKER INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKSHOPS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetROSE FITZGERALD KENNEDY GREENWAY CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHOPEWELL INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESIST INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITYSPROUTS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCITY STRINGS UNITED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON STRING ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMASSPOETRY INC — $20,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH SHORE CHILDRENS CHORUS CORP — $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPER SCHOLAS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARTSBOSTON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPROSPECT HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…The Cabot Family Char…United Way Of Massach…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Hamilton Company …The Klarman Family Fo…Cambridge Savings Cha…Rockland Trust Charit…Ramsey McCluskey Fami…
Boston Foundation IncMA57.3× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation

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 Deborah M Noonan Memorial Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Brookview House Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
  • Artsboston Inc — 9% of income from government
  • City Strings United Inc — 7% of income from government
  • South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boston String Academy Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Makanda Project Organization Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 102 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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