· Private foundation
Donald E Garrant Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Breaktime United Inc | $5,000 |
| United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $5,000 |
| The Institute of Student Loan Advisors | $2,500 |
| Si Se Puede | $2,025 |
| Reading Memorial High School | $970 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC3× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +46%- FIFITMONEY INC3× · 2020–2023 · $14k · revenue +375%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- CDCommunity Day Charter Public Schoolone grant, 2024 · $7k
- WHWakefield High Schoolone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SFSTUDENT FINANCIAL EDUCATION INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
To partner with states, districts, schools, and communities to implement customized strategies and build capacity to advance equity and opportunity in k-12 education, so that all students, and particularly those who have been systemically…
See Statement O for description of programs and services.
We seek to facilitate a just energy transition by putting black and brown communities first, and enabling systems change at the intersection of social, environmental, and economic justice. we are powering a just energy transition in the…
Allow children to exploire their curious minds and captivate what their interests are to spark innovation and reach their full potential
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
The young people's project uses math literacy work to develop the abilities of elementary through high school students to succeed in school and in life.
Publicolor is an innovative educational youth development organization that empowers students facing immense life challenges for academic and career success through a multi-year project-based continuum of programs. the organization's…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Debate League Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is United Way of Massachusetts Bay 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 21 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 United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FITMONEY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SERVICE CLUB OF ANDOVER ↗
- Who funds GALVIN MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF STUDENT LOAN ADVISORS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds READING MEMORIAL HIGH SCHOOL PTO 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Health Resources in Action Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Donald E Garrant Foundation Inc 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.
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% 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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