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Empire Loan Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC | $6,000 |
| EMBRACE BOSTON INC | $5,000 |
| NO BOOKS NO BALL | $2,500 |
| THE BIM INC | $2,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI | $2,000 |
| SOUTH END ATHLETICS & ACTIVITIES ASSOCIATION INC | $1,250 |
| LIGHTHOUSE PRESERVATION SOCIETY | $650 |
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 (FY17–20, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- NBNo Books No Ball Basketball Program a Non-Profit Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $54k · revenue +198% · 28% of their budget
- HFHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC3× · 2019–2023 · $38k · revenue +89%
- BCBOSTON CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +39%
Funded once
EMERSON COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%- LDLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORPone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
To create a clean, welcome, and vibrant environment that will increase business activity in the downtown boston area, including downtown crossing, the ladder district, and parts of the theater and financial districts.
To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
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,…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund and the most unlike its peers is Community Path of Lynn Coalition Inc. 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.
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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 10% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
41 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. 41 of the 47 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.
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 No Books No Ball Basketball Program a Non-Profit Corporation ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CITY LIGHTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Rose Conservatory Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Explorers Inc ↗
- Who funds EMBRACE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds DOCUMENTARY EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ↗
- Who funds South End Athletics & Activities Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TALENTED AND GIFTED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CASA NUEVA VIDA ↗
- Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC ACTION FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY MEALS AND MORE ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds The Lighthouse Preservation Society ↗
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Barr Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc
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 Empire Loan Charitable 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.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Rose Conservatory Inc — 1% of income from government
- Documentary Educational Resources Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% 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.
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