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Do the Right Thing Foundation Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$160k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What you fund
0183% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202023.

Philanthropy$160kFood & Nutrition$4kHousing & Shelter$3kCrime & Legal$3kYouth Development$2kEducation$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$40,210
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE SS$40,210
DAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE DB$40,210
DAF VANGUARD CHARITABLE KS$40,210
OVER THE RAINBOW FOUNDATION$39,155
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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%PROJECT SWEAT PEAS: $500 → 7%NEW ENGLAND MUSICIANS RELIEF FUND: $500 → 8%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.

3%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7k · 4 repeat orgs$184k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +45% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
29

Total granted

$7k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+42%

Still filing today

75%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Food & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHousing & 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

  • YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +141%
  • CD
    COMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $2k · revenue +45%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2020–2021 · $2k

Funded once

  • Y
    YDO
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • TN
    THE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +34%

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
Our Neighbors' Table Inc

The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…

Human Services
2
Northeast Organic Farming Association of New Hampshire

NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc

The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…

4
Newton Food Pantry Inc

The newton food pantry works to alleviate food insecurity by providing free supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving clients with dignity, compassion and respect.

Food & Nutrition
5
Aquidneck Community Table

Aquidneck community table works in the areas of health, environment, agriculture and aquaculture to build a thriving local economy and make healthy food accessible to all.

Environment
6
Boston Public Market Association Inc

Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…

Public Benefit
7
The North End Food Pantry Inc

The North End Food Pantry is a volunteer-run organization located in the North End of Burlington, Vermont, dedicated to providing free food, clothing, and personal care items to individuals and families in need.

Food & Nutrition
8
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc

To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.

Human Services
9
The Food Drive Inc

The corporation was organized in melrose, massachusetts to promote food access, food justice, and climate action. we partner with commercial and community sources to rescue wholesome food that would otherwise go to waste and deliver it…

Food & Nutrition
10
Digger Foods Inc

The digger foods, inc.'s mission is to make local, organic, and seasonal food available to everyone in the local area. in september 2022, the organization launched a local food delivery program in and around brockton. our goal is to…

Food & Nutrition
11
Belmont Food Pantry Inc

To provide food and assistance for residents of belmont, massachusetts who feel compelled to ask for food and/or assistance. the sole activity of the organization is to operate a food pantry run exclusively by volunteers in the town.

Food & Nutrition
12
Grow Food Northampton Inc

The organization is dedicated to building a just and resilient local food system that nourishes the community and protects and enriches the earth.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Promise Metrowest Inc and the most unlike its peers is Over the Rainbow Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE DB — $40,210 · OtherDAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE DBDAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE SS — $40,210 · OtherDAF FIDELITY CHARITABLE SSDAF VANGUARD CHARITABLE KS — $40,210 · OtherDAF VANGUARD CHARITABLE KS+25 more — $20,800 · Other+25 moreOver the Rainbow Foundation Inc — $39,155 · PhilanthropyOver the Rainbow Founda…THE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC — $1,500 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INC — $1,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC — $2,000 · Crime & LegalWILMINGTON WORKS INC — $1,000 · Community ImprovementNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC — $500 · Community ImprovementFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $1,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$141,430Philanthropy$39,155Food & Nutrition$3,500Youth Development$2,000Crime & Legal$2,000Community Improvement$1,500Housing & Shelter$1,000

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOver the Rainbow Foundation Inc — $39,155 over 1y, 94% of budgetYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY DISPUTE SETTLEMENT CENTER INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NATICK COMMUNITY ORGANIC FARM INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILMINGTON WORKS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN BEVERLY 107Q INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetRYAL SIDE CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC — $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetProject Sweet Peas — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND MUSICIANS RESOURCE FUND INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Sudbury FoundationMA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sudbury Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Metrowest Health Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation 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 Do the Right Thing Foundation Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 60%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc20% of income from government
  • Wilmington Works Inc15% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc7% of income from government
  • Youth Development Organization Inc4% of income from government
  • Green Beverly 107Q Inc1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 37 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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