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Eastern Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1,786
Grants FY2025still arriving
36
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Food & Nutrition$17MCommunity Improvement$15MHuman Services$12MPhilanthropy$11MHousing & Shelter$10MEducation$6.5MHealth$5.3MPublic Benefit$3.8MOther$0
02FY2025 · 1786 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1525 grants · $3.3M
  • $10k–50k187 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k65 grants · $6.0M
  • $250k+9 grants · $7.0M
$2,500
Median grant
36
States reached
$267M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF LYNN$2,002,500
MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP$1,538,000
LA COLABORATIVA$1,005,000
NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS (FKA LOWELL COMMUNITY LOAN FUND DBA MCCI - FBE$900,000
THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$515,000
THE BUILDER COALITION$301,930
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - ASIAN COMMUNITY FUND$268,250
YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA$250,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL$250,000
INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCIN - IBA$220,000
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY$213,000
GREGG NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC$205,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION - THE EQUALITY FUND$200,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH (MASSINC)$200,000
MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION$175,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $8.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $75k → 8%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $60k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $103k → 16%SEEDS OF FAITH: $50k → 9%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $69k → 16%ORGANIZATION FOR REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SUCCESS: $50k → 7%CONCORD COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $51k → 7%BEAUTIFUL DAY: $50k → 14%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $100k → 14%NEW HAMPSHIRE FOOD BANK: $100k → 7%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $51k → 7%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $55k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES NEW HAMPSHIRE: $50k → 7%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $103k → 10%WELLSPRING HOUSE: $50k → 10%NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS: $140k → 11%REFUGEE DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $53k → 14%BEVERLY CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS: $73k → 10%LYNN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY: $135k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $250k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $100k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA: $50k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $40k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $133k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $65k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $50k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $45k → 16%DANVERS COMMUNITY YMCA: $100k → 10%CHOPCHOP FAMILY: $50k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA: $1.0M → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $575k → 16%ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE: $100k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK: $75k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA: $110k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $105k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $105k → 16%YW BOSTON: $60k → 16%JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER BOSTON: $105k → 8%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $105k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $96k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $70k → 16%SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION: $43k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS: $60k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $285k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $110k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $50k → 16%ONE FAMILY: $53k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $55k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$59M · 1221 repeat orgs$32M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

1221 repeat relationships — 868 still active in FY2025, 353 since wound down; 249 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1221
517

Total granted

$59M
$25M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+27%

Still filing today

78%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • LA COLABORATIVA INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +524%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $731k · revenue +1%
  • THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $635k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • NW
    NORTHEAST WHOLESALE FOOD DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15M · revenue 0%
  • M
    MCCI
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • NP
    NEW PROFIT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $500k · revenue -56%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Education & Career

Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.

Education
2
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Foundation for the

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
4
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

Strengthen nonprofit sector through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
5
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

Mbr engages with public and private leaders to develop public policy solutions that enhance massachusetts' long-term competitive position and make it a highly-desirable place to do business within a global economy.

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6
Massachusetts Council of Human Services

The council's mission is to promote a healthy, productive and diverse human services industry.

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7
Massachusetts Housing Investment

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
8
Massachusetts Higher Education

Provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Brighton Marine Inc

To ensure quality health care is delivered to uniformed service beneficiaries.

Health
10
East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services
11
New England Lawboston

Education of students

Education
12
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

Engaging local business leaders in governmental and philanthropic activities, connecting and educating its members, and providing a forum for addressing the needs of the cambridge, massachusetts business community.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Health Care for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Piyc Grand Slam Fishing Tournament. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLocal Community Grantmaking…International Child Welfare…Firefighter & First Respond…Elementary School PTOsRecreational Boating ClubsCommunity Support ServicesYouth Baseball & Softball L…Dog Rescue and AdoptionYouth Sports LeaguesFraternal Lodge Organizatio…Member Social ClubsEvangelical ChurchesPublic Library Support Orga…Veterans Service Organizati…Local History MuseumsCommunity Arts & PerformanceRegional Land TrustsSocial Impact Innovation Ne…Early Childhood Education S…Community Support ServicesProfessional Trade Associat…Senior Living and Elder CareFamily Philanthropic Founda…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%7%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr14%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%6%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr18%26%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr14%34%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%30/2,649
the rest of the field
12%
4,528/38,111

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.

04the grantee network

1351 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. 1351 of the 2,000 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.

22
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
434
Early backer (in before they grew)
1313/1351
Grantees still filing
988/1351
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHEAST WHOLESALE FOOD DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION INC — $14,699,750 · OtherNORTHEAST WHOLESALE FOOD DISTRIBUTORS ASSOCIATION INCFOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC — $4,892,125 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INCCITY OF LYNN — $2,020,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARD — $1,538,000 · Other+95 more — $18,743,503 · Other+95 moreBoston Foundation Inc — $3,927,420 · PhilanthropyBoston Foun…ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,215,550 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNT…United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $890,500 · PhilanthropyUnited Way …MASSACHUSETTS LGBT BUSINESS NETWORK INC — $530,000 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSET…+5 more — $786,785 · Philanthropy+5 moreLA COLABORATIVA INC — $1,700,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABO…Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $433,550 · Human ServicesYoung Men…CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC — $405,750 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'…New Hampshire Catholic Charities — $255,922 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $235,350 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $226,700 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $206,333 · Human ServicesGREGG NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $205,000 · Human Services+22 more — $2,458,070 · Human Services+22 moreGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONINC(FKA GREATER BOSTON CORP) — $507,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC — $505,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC — $500,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $343,800 · Community ImprovementTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $333,250 · Community ImprovementJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $325,000 · Community ImprovementBUILDERS OF COLOR COALITION — $311,930 · Community ImprovementALLSTON BRIGHTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $180,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $179,790 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE OF CAPE COD & ISLANDS INC — $161,250 · Community ImprovementLawrence Partnership Inc — $140,100 · Community Improvement+7 more — $705,955 · Community ImprovementFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $405,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $352,500 · Housing & ShelterManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $267,806 · Housing & ShelterLGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC — $256,500 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $245,000 · Housing & ShelterASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $214,500 · Housing & ShelterINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $210,300 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC — $170,000 · Housing & ShelterLYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC — $166,150 · Housing & ShelterTHE COMMUNITY BUILDERS INC — $160,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS INC — $160,000 · Housing & Shelter2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $130,000 · Housing & Shelter+10 more — $1,005,080 · Housing & ShelterTHE NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE FUND INC — $3,000,000 · Civil RightsINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $107,600 · Civil Rights+1 more — $102,750 · Civil RightsNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC — $525,000 · EducationSTRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC — $314,975 · EducationBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP — $220,000 · EducationCape Cod Foundation Inc — $219,160 · EducationTHE SOMERVILLE FOUNDATION INC — $202,500 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $200,000 · EducationENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC — $166,600 · EducationJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $163,450 · EducationYEAR UP INC — $148,900 · EducationELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC — $128,000 · EducationCIVIC ACTION PROJECT INC — $120,000 · EducationLEADS Inc — $120,000 · Education+7 more — $662,150 · Education
Other$41,893,878Philanthropy$7,350,255Human Services$6,126,675Community Improvement$4,193,075Housing & Shelter$3,742,836Civil Rights$3,210,350Education$3,190,735

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC — $4,892,125 over 3y, 41% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $3,927,420 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $1,700,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $1,215,550 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc — $890,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $730,504 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC — $635,000 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LGBT BUSINESS NETWORK INC — $530,000 over 5y, 53% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC — $525,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATIONINC(FKA GREATER BOSTON CORP) — $507,000 over 2y, 35% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC — $505,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC — $495,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua — $433,550 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $410,250 over 5y, 10% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC — $405,750 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $405,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC — $397,500 over 4y, 6.7% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR CAPITAL PARTNERS INC — $375,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $352,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $343,800 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC — $337,765 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $336,625 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $333,250 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION — $325,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC — $321,250 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $321,083 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR CHILDREN INC — $314,975 over 4y, 15% of budgetBUILDERS OF COLOR COALITION — $311,930 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc — $267,806 over 5y, 8.8% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $267,500 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $265,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $263,040 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC — $260,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC — $256,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetNew Hampshire Catholic Charities — $255,922 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASSOCIATED INDUSTRIES OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $250,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $245,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $235,350 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $226,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMuseum of African American History Inc — $225,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP — $220,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCape Cod Foundation Inc — $219,160 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $214,500 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $210,300 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $206,333 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREGG NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $205,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC — $204,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust Charit…Cambridge Savings Cha…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Hamilton Company …Yawkey Foundation IISalem Five Charitable…Rockland Trust - East…United Way Of Massach…Rockland Trust - Blue…The Cabot Family Char…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA186.8× affinity407 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust

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 Eastern Bank Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Lgbtq Senior Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
  • WeTHRIVE Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Essex National Heritage Commission Inc — 87% of income from government
  • People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
  • The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Acre Family Child Care Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Community Action Programs Inter-City in — 18% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Third Sector Capital Partners Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
  • Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Seiu Education and Support Fund — 6% of income from government
  • Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
  • Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
  • Lowell Plan Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Civic Action Project Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Cambridge College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Curry College — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
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31get no government money at all
53report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
10rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Eastern Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eastern Bank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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