How much did EASTERN LIGHT TR grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of EASTERN LIGHT TR’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

foodboston

2021

foodboston

2022

endeavors

2023

kataluma

2024

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2025

cambridgeboston

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k6 grants · $7k
$10k–50k1 grant · $10k

$500

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

Cambridge Council on Aging$10,000
St Mary Orthodox Church$4,000
Boston Health Care for the Homeless$1,000
Greenroots Chelsea$500
City Stings United$500
Bridges Homeward Cambridge Family Childrens Service$500
The Greater Boston Food Bank$500

02The need

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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 10%. 71% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$24k · 13 repeat orgs$17k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +78% since the first grant, against +71% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24k

$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+71%

Still filing today

54%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCrime & LegalArts & CultureReligionHealthOther

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

Boston Health Care for the Homeless
3× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +51%
Haley House
5× · 2020–2025 · $1k · revenue +182%
AW
Axia Women
2× · 2023–2024 · $1k · revenue +891%

Funded once

CF
Cambridge Family Children's Servic
one grant, 2021 · $1k
HH
Helping Hands Monkey Helpers
one grant, 2021 · $1k
HF
Habitat For Humanity
one grant, 2021 · $1k

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.

The Boston Home Inc

To improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.

Health

South Boston Neighborhood House Inc

To support family and neighborhood life in south boston.

Human Services

Roxborough Home for Women

Housing & Shelter

Home for Homeless Women

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Harvard Square Churches Meal Program Inc

The Harvard Square Churches Meal Program prepares and serves a weekly evening meal every Thursday for 100+ underserved and un housed people in the Cambridge / Greater Boston area.

Food & Nutrition

Boston Medical Center Corporation

Boston medical center's mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all in need of care regardless of status and ability to pay.

Health

Southwest Chicago Homeless Services

To provide food, clothing, case management and placement in housing, as well as referrals for additional supportive services. a commitment to helping homeless and housing-insecure persons and strive to end homelessness in our communities…

Human Services

Boston Neighborhood Support Fka Howard

Housing & Shelter

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

Lowell Area Housing Inc

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Preble Street

To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.

Human Services

Boston Fatherless & Widows Society

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Somerville-Cambridge Elder and the most unlike its peers is Bridges Homeward Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

11/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$32,000Human Services$3,500Housing & Shelter$3,000Religion$1,300Crime & Legal$500Arts & Culture$500Health$250

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.

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.

Network for GoodDC9.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 organisation EASTERN LIGHT TR 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Axia Women.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 9.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 851114264 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Axia Women, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Eastern Light Tr?

Find your warmest path to Eastern Light Tr through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

EASTERN LIGHT TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastern Light Tr?

More from the funding graph

EASTERN LIGHT TR

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Eastern Light Tr?

More from the funding graph