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Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation

DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community in boston's dorchester neighborhoods.

$210k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$590kEmployment$313k
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $20,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $209,990 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $189,990 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
SOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $105k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%INTERSEMINARIAN-PROJECT PLACE INC: $105k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$568k · 3 repeat orgs$335k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +113% since the first grant, against +37% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$568k
$335k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%
+37%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEmploymentEducationEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $376k · revenue +73%
  • SB
    SOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES
    6× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +415%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $56k · revenue +113%

Funded once

  • IP
    INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $105k · revenue +17%
  • JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $82k · revenue +37%
  • BP
    BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $59k · revenue +653% · 74% of their budget
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
2
Cambridge Affordable Housing Corp

The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.

Housing & Shelter
3
Burbank Housingsr Corporation

To own and operate affordable rental housing.

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4
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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5
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
6
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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7
Tenants Development Corporation

The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.

Housing & Shelter
8
Boston Neighborhood Community Land Trust Inc

To collectively work with partners to statbilize neighborhoods by providing innovative means by which as many residents of foreclosed occupied homes as soon as possible can stay in (continued - see sch o)

Housing & Shelter
9
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
10
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
11
Bath Housing Development Corporation

To foster, encourage, participate in, finance, own, operate, promote and advance the development of housing projects and related facilities affordable by primarily low income persons and families; to provide affordable financial and…

Housing & Shelter
12
Commonwealth Land Trust Inc

To provide safe, affordable housing for the people who are most vulnerable in our society - low-income and single parent families, the mentally and physically disabled, the homeless, and people with hiv and aids

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Public Housing Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation and Affiliates. 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

10 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. 10 of the 12 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $375,864 · Community ImprovementCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $135,979 · Community ImprovementSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATE…INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesINTERSEMINARI…JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $81,850 · EmploymentJEWISH VOC…BOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION: $59,432 · Housing & ShelterCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterBLUEHUB CAPITAL INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $56,133 · EnvironmentMETROPOLITAN AREA PLANNING CORP: $38,750 · OtherCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE CORPORATION: $5,000 · OtherTrustees of Tufts College: $29,996 · EducationBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · Health
Community Improvement$511,843Human Services$105,000Employment$81,850Housing & Shelter$69,432Environment$56,133Other$43,750Education$29,996Health$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $375,864 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND AFFILIATES: $135,979 over 6y, 13% of budgetINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC: $105,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $81,850 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC HOUSING CORPORATION: $59,432 over 1y, 74% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $56,133 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $29,996 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUEHUB CAPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncUnited Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Interseminarian - Project Place Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Bluehub Capital Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report 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, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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