· Private foundation
Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $148k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $28,200 |
| DOCTORS FOR GLOBAL HEALTH INC | $27,118 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,658 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,250 |
| GROUNDWORKS SOMERVILLE | $10,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF TUFTS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER | $10,000 |
| NJ COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS | $10,000 |
| NYC TOGETHER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,532 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| PRINCETON EINSTEIN MUSEUM INC | $3,375 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
US giving: 84% of grant dollars ($1.1M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($204k) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 16% of all-years giving ($204k)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 28%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2017–2018 · $22k
PINE STREET INN INC2× · 2021–2023 · $20k · revenue +43%
Trustees of Tufts College2× · 2022–2025 · $15k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $44k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $44k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $37k
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.
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.
A grassroots, community organization that supports immigrants on issues of workplace rights and immigration. we work with the community, instructing them to execute their rights through organizing, advocacy, education, leadership, capacity…
To provide legal services to low income persons seeking political asylum and related relief from deportation in the new england area, as well as, promoting the rights of detained immigrants.
For more than a century, the international institute of new england (iine) has been creating opportunities for refugees and immigrants to succeed through resettlement, education, career advancement, and pathways to citizenship. founded in…
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,…
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
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.
Legal, immigration and community organizing
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.
Project citizenship is a nonprofit agency that provides free, high quality services to legal permanent residents to help them become u.s. citizens. project citizenship offers free workshops, eligibility screening, application assistance,…
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.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
The Guernica Centre for International Justice represents the interests of victims in national and international legal proceedings, putting in place transnational accountability strategies that seek to maximize the protection of victims'…
How this is measured
23 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. 23 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ella Lyman Cabot Trust Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- Groundwork Somerville Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc: 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc: 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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