· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 11 grants below total $642,527 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,099,343 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $456,816 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $616k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC | $130,000 |
| NEXT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT | $100,000 |
| BOSTON FARM COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $100,000 |
| BPE (FBO FIRST TEACHER) | $65,000 |
| CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY | $65,000 |
| BOB HAAS COMMUNITY TRUST | $52,592 |
| BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $51,875 |
| COMUNIDADES ENRAIZADAS CLT | $51,875 |
| SOMMERVILLE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| AGNCY DESIGN INC | $6,185 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $600k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 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, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $436k · revenue +44%- PHPROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC2× · 2017–2025 · $269k · revenue +92%
FII - NATIONAL2× · 2017–2018 · $228k · revenue +156%
Funded once
- CKCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $64k · revenue +186%
- LSLATINO STEM ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue -84%
- FNFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +179%
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.
The southwest boston community development corporation is led by principles of racial equity and inclusion, to alleviate social and economic disparities that impact people's quality of life and future opportunities. it shall be led by and…
Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…
Facilitating the advancement of low and moderate income persons and other underserved residents in the south shore area of massachusetts and to assist such persons in finding and acquiring suitable housing by providing real estate…
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.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
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
Nuestra comunidad is devoted to building the wealth and enhancing the physical, economic, and social well-being of roxbury and other underserved populations in greater boston through a community-driven process that promotes…
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…
To implement the community revitalization plans of the dudley street neighborhood initiative, which espouses development without displacement and includes affordable housing, economic development, open space and other amenities of the…
Develop and train cooperatives to create and sustain democratically owned, cooperative enterprises and networks in the northeast that grow a prosperous and equitable economy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Green Roots. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 18% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
29 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. 29 of the 36 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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BOB HAAS COMMUNITY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ARTMORPHEUS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUDLEY NEIGHBORS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UPHAMS CORNER MAIN STREET INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMUNIDADES ENRAIZADAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BPE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO STEM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR CORNERS MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Four Corners Action Coalition ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN ROOTS ↗
- Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds BPE INC ↗
- Who funds AGNCY DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF SOMERVILLE ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
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: 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
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 Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative 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.
- Community Action Agency of Somerville — 49% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Agncy Design Inc — 23% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Somerville Community Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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.