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Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc

Empower dudley residents to organize, plan for, create and control a vibrant, diverse and high quality neighborhood in collaboration with community partners.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
11
Itemized grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$643k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$52,592
Largest grant, FY2025
$130,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 19
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$5.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 74% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’24
Community ImprovementHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving11$643k27%
FY20248$564k38%
FY20215$96k40%
FY20209$142k44%
FY20198$293k50%
FY20187$421k14%
FY201719$939kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$1.2MHousing & Shelter$664kHuman Services$613kEducation$384kArts & Culture$221kEnvironment$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($85k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThird Sector New England Inc: $436,300 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBob Haas Community Trust Inc: $413,724 over 2y, 60% of budgetProject Hope Boston Inc: $269,190 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFii - National: $227,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetArtmorpheus Inc: $187,500 over 4y, 52% of budgetBoston Farms Community Land Trust Inc: $171,000 over 4y, 25% of budgetThe Boston Educational Development Foundation Inc: $140,650 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDudley Neighbors Incorporated: $125,112 over 5y, 18% of budgetBoston Neighborhood Community Land Trust Inc: $105,875 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetUphams Corner Main Street Incorporated: $85,000 over 4y, 27% of budgetComunidades Enraizadas Community Land Trust Inc: $80,875 over 2y, 8.6% of budgetBpe Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetChildren's Services of Roxbury Inc: $65,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommonwealth Kitchen Inc: $63,967 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSomerville Community Land Trust Inc: $46,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetChinatown Community Land Trust Inc: $44,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetFour Corners Main Street Inc: $40,500 over 2y, 42% of budgetGreater Four Corners Action Coalition: $40,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetHighland Park Community Development Corporation: $39,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Nurturing Center of Massachusetts Inc: $38,167 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCitizen Schools Inc: $29,059 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBpe Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAgncy Design Inc: $16,185 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation: $8,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Action Agency of Somerville: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLiterations Corp: $5,164 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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 IncMA35.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hyams Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office

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.

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About Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc

How much does Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc give?
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc reported 11 itemized grants totaling $642,527, out of $1,099,343 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 19 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (37%), Housing & Shelter (21%), Human Services (20%).
Who are Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Third Sector New England Inc ($436k), Bob Haas Community Trust Inc ($414k), Project Hope Boston Inc ($269k).
Does Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc based?
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc is based in MA.

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 36 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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