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Eastern Cambridge Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.7MHuman Services$339kHousing & Shelter$292kEducation$288kHealth$250kArts & Culture$225kYouth Development$107kCommunity Improvement$74kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,501,200
Median grant
1
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION$5,501,200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $278k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 76% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COOPERATIVE PRODUCTION INC: $5k → 11%EASTER SEALS NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $10k → 7%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS INC: $3k → 8%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 11%EXETER AREA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%ETHOS (SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES DBA ETHOS): $3k → 16%GRANITE STATE INDEPENDENT LIVING: $3k → 7%GATHER: $5k → 5%HOPE & COMFORT: $5k → 7%CAMBRIDGE AT HOME INC: $3k → 16%GATHER: $3k → 5%CHRISTOPHER'S HAVEN: $3k → 16%GATHER: $3k → 5%WEBSTER HOUSE: $4k → 7%JEFF'S PLACE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER: $3k → 8%JEFF'S PLACE CHILDREN'S BEREAVEMENT CENTER: $3k → 8%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $5k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $5k → 7%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $3k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%SPRINGWELL: $5k → 7%ONE FAMILY INC: $5k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $5k → 16%SECOND CHANCES INC: $3k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL INC: $10k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $5k → 8%SPRINGWELL: $5k → 8%HOPE & COMFORT: $5k → 8%HOPE AND COMFORT: $5k → 8%HOPE & COMFORT: $5k → 8%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $3k → 8%THE NEXT STEP FUND: $3k → 8%ENROOT INC: $3k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $11k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $10k → 16%BRIDGES HOMEWARD: $3k → 8%BRIDGES HOMEWARD: $3k → 8%PATHWAY TO POSSIBLE: $5k → 8%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $3k → 16%WEST SUBURBAN YMCA: $3k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
NJ
NM
AR
TX
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.

19%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 179 repeat orgs$6.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

179 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 179 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

179
258

Total granted

$1.5M
$903k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+17%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterYouth 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

  • JC
    JUST-A-START CORPORATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $50k · revenue +38%
  • SI
    SPRINGWELL INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $44k · revenue +190%
  • MI
    MASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $33k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $361k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • G(
    GIVINGA (FUND EMPLOYEE ACCTS 71 200)
    one grant, 2018 · $14k
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
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
2
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

—
3
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
4
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
5
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

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

Arts & Culture
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.

—
7
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
8
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
9
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
10
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

—
11
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
12
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bread & Roses Housing Inc; the most unlike its peers is Eastern Bank Foundation. 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

313 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 313 of the 440 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
305/313
Grantees still filing
217/313
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

EASTERN BANK FOUNDATION: $5,501,200 · PhilanthropyEASTERN BANK FOUNDATION+8 more: $128,000 · PhilanthropyIndividual grant recipient: $360,685 · OtherIndividual grant …+108 more: $843,617 · Other+108 moreSPRINGWELL INC: $44,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $32,023 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $22,079 · Human ServicesGather: $11,596 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Human ServicesEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $10,000 · Human Services+23 more: $114,456 · Human ServicesELLIE FUND INC: $22,810 · Education826 BOSTON INC: $22,000 · EducationCOMMUNITY INVESTORS INC: $16,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $12,500 · EducationPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · EducationNEW HAMPSHIRE CENTER FOR NONPROFITS: $10,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE CENTER FOR ADULT EDUCATION: $10,000 · EducationRACIAL UNITY TEAM: $7,500 · EducationBOSTON BOOK FESTIVAL INC: $7,500 · EducationPROSPECT HILL ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $5,743 · Education+4 more: $13,500 · EducationBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $20,000 · Arts & CultureWELLESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $19,000 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSEUM OF PORTSMOUTH INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureSILK ROAD PROJECT INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureFriends of The Music Hall: $5,500 · Arts & CultureESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,500 · Arts & CultureCOOLIDGE CORNER THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureBLACK HERITAGE TRAIL OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSEE SCIENCE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $14,500 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM: $9,500 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $8,760 · Housing & ShelterWORKFORCE HOUSING COALITION OF THE GREATER SEACOAS: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTON: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementHomeStart Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 · Community ImprovementWELLESLEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $8,000 · Community ImprovementCAMBRIDGE LOCAL FIRST: $6,500 · Community ImprovementTHE BOSTON CLUB INC: $6,000 · Community ImprovementDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementThe Star Island Corporation: $5,000 · Community ImprovementNATICK SERVICE COUNCIL INC: $4,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,500 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$5,629,200Other$1,204,302Human Services$254,154Education$152,553Arts & Culture$139,000Housing & Shelter$129,260Community Improvement$112,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetEASTERN BANK FOUNDATION: $5,501,200 over 1y, 19% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $61,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $50,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC: $44,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $32,023 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley Education Foundation Inc: $30,500 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetManchester Neighborhood Housing Services Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $29,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWELLESLEY SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $22,810 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $22,079 over 5y, 0.4% of budget826 BOSTON INC: $22,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWELLESLEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $17,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $16,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INVESTORS INC: $16,000 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOR ALL INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $14,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SECOND STEP INC: $12,910 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGather: $11,596 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS CLEARINGHOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC: $11,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPROVISION MINISTRY INC: $10,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC: $10,297 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW MUSEUM OF PORTSMOUTH INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetONE FAMILY INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SUBURBAN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 over 2y, 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…United Way Of Massach…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Hamilton Company …Boston Foundation IncCambridge Community F…Community Foundation …GivenGain Foundation …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA165.8× affinity189 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA

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 Eastern Cambridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eastern Cambridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 520%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Autism Services Association Inc: 96% of income from government
  • Cooperative Production Inc: 93% of income from government
  • Pathway to Possible Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Bridges Homeward Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Northeast Arc Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans: 66% of income from government
  • Cambridge Local First: 65% of income from government
  • Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc: 53% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Community Investors Inc: 39% of income from government
  • The Midas Collaborative Inc: 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Beacon Hill Village Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc: 26% of income from government
  • The Second Step Inc: 26% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Solutions at Work Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Cambridge School Volunteers Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Wellesley Symphony Orchestra Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc: 10% of income from government
  • The Next Step Fund Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Elizabeth Seton Residence Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Institute for Health and Recovery Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Citysprouts Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mount Auburn Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Special Needs Arts Programs Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Silk Road Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association: 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Asian Community Development Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Baroque Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Book Festival Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Urban Edge Housing Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Caspar Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Somerville Community Corporation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Minute Man Arc for Human Services Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association: 0% of income from government
  • Exeter Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
52get no government money at all
45report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
11rely 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 440 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-PF 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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