· Private foundation
Edward Payson George Charitable Trust
Its FY2017 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k6 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $388k
- $250k+2 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AIDS ACTION COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS | $420,000 |
| FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $255,000 |
| MATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $218,864 |
| EAST BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $169,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON | $5,000 |
| BEACON HILL VILLAGE | $5,000 |
| HALEY HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
| BEACON HILL SEMINARS | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN | $2,500 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $500 |
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 (FY17–17, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 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.
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
To operate a community health center providing a full range of health care services including medical, dental, vision, mental health and elder services to residents of the north end, charlestown and west end of boston, massachusetts.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To serve, educate, and inspire our patients in becoming more knowledgeable and participatory in their total health. to be a regional resource and leader focused on improving public health in the communities we serve.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
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.
The boston healthnet operates to further the charitable and educational missions of its member institutions and health centers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To advance the health of individuals and communities by serving as the leading voice for all massachusetts hospitals and healthcare systems and to help them provide high quality, cost-effective and equitable patient care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 AIDS ACTION COMMITTEE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MATTAPAN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL SEMINARS INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
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 · 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 organization Edward Payson George Charitable Trust 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.
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Mattapan Community Health Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% 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.