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· 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.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025still arriving
11
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$130k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $642,527, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,099,343 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $456,816 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.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $616k
$52,592
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC$130,000
BOSTON FARM COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$100,000
NEXT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT$100,000
CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY$65,000
BPE (FBO FIRST TEACHER)$65,000
BOB HAAS COMMUNITY TRUST$52,592
COMUNIDADES ENRAIZADAS CLT$51,875
BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$51,875
HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC$10,000
SOMMERVILLE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST$10,000
AGNCY DESIGN INC$6,185
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $130k → 10%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $98k → 10%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MA INC: $38k → 16%PROJECT HOPE: $139k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $130k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $65k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 19 repeat orgs$563k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +46% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
14

Total granted

$2.5M
$333k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+46%

Still filing today

84%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $230k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24’25
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $436k · revenue +44%
  • PH
    PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC
    2× · 2017–2025 · $269k · revenue +92%
  • FII - NATIONAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $228k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CK
    COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $64k · revenue +186%
  • LS
    LATINO STEM ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2017 · $54k · revenue -84%
  • FN
    FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $38k · revenue +179%
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
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
2
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation and Affiliates

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…

Community Improvement
3
New England Community Project Inc

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…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Neighborworks Soma Realty Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

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…

Youth Development
7
Historic Boston Incorporated
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8
Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp

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…

Community Improvement
9
Dni 5 Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
10
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
11
Urban Guild Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Downtown Boston Business Improvement District Corporation

To create a clean, welcome, and vibrant environment that will increase business activity in the downtown boston area, including downtown crossing, the ladder district, and parts of the theater and financial districts.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 36 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $436,300 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCBOB HAAS COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $413,724 · Community ImprovementBOB HAAS COMMUNITY TRUST INCBOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $171,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON FARMS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INCUPHAMS CORNER MAIN STREET INCORPORATED: $85,000 · Community ImprovementUPHAMS CORNER MAIN STREET INCORPORATEDCOMUNIDADES ENRAIZADAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $80,875 · Community ImprovementCOMUNIDADES ENRAIZADAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INCCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $63,967 · Community Improvement+5 more: $142,685 · Community Improvement+5 morePROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $269,190 · Human ServicesPROJECT HOPE BOSTON I…FII - NATIONAL: $227,500 · Human ServicesFII - NATIONALCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SERVICES O…FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $38,167 · Human ServicesFAMILY NURTURING CENT…THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $140,650 · OtherTHE BOSTON EDUCA…NEXT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $100,000 · OtherNEXT LEADERSHIP …LATINO STEM ALLIANCE: $53,651 · OtherLATINO STEM ALLI…DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD CHARTER SCHOOL: $32,478 · OtherDUDLEY STREET NE…HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $27,000 · OtherHIGHLAND PARK CO…BPE INC: $25,000 · OtherBPE INCLEAF EDUCATION NORTH AMERICA INC: $17,950 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $16,666 · Other+4 more: $42,819 · Other+4 moreDUDLEY NEIGHBORS INCORPORATED: $125,112 · Housing & ShelterDUDLEY NEIG…BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $105,875 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON NEIG…SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $46,000 · Housing & ShelterSOMERVILLE …HIGHLAND PARK COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $39,000 · Housing & ShelterHIGHLAND PA…ARTMORPHEUS INC: $187,500 · Arts & CultureCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $44,000 · Arts & CultureBPE INC: $65,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $29,059 · EducationLITERATIONS CORP: $5,164 · Youth Development
Community Improvement$1,393,551Human Services$599,857Other$456,214Housing & Shelter$315,987Arts & Culture$231,500Education$94,059Youth Development$5,164

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 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
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 IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…The Hyams Foundation …Barr FoundationBoston After School &…Haymarket People's Fu…Rockland Trust - East…Beth Israel Deaconess…Fidelity FoundationBoston Charitable Tru…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 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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