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Eos Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Public Benefit$3.7MFood & Nutrition$1.2MEmployment$785kPhilanthropy$784kHuman Services$780kCommunity Improvement$741kEducation$738kCivil Rights$727kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $359k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $638k
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.4M
$7,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Southern Vision Alliance$500,000
Focus for Democracy Fund$300,000
Indivisible Civics$300,000
Growing Places Garden Project Inc$283,000
Springfield Public Schools$233,000
Center for Women and Enterprise$100,000
Fidelity Charitable$100,000
We Are ALX Inc$55,000
Root Change$50,000
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston$50,000
The Greater Boston Food Bank$50,000
Boston Educational Development Foundation$30,000
Bedford Public Schools$30,000
Women's Foundation of Boston Inc$26,500
FJC - A Foundation of Donor Advised Funds$25,000
02The need
03

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, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GROWING PLACES: $85k → 9%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INITIATIVE: $7k → 10%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $50k → 11%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER: $80k → 12%PIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CTR: $30k → 12%GROWING PLACES: $85k → 11%GROWING PLACES: $325k → 11%Growing Places Garden Project Inc: $283k → 11%LA COLABORATIVA: $160k → 16%WE CAN: $3k → 8%WE CAN CORP: $3k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%YW BOSTON: $130k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%YW BOSTON: $50k → 16%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOC: $105k → 8%BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC: $85k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.0M · 28 repeat orgs$6.2M to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 62 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
96

Total granted

$4.0M
$4.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+16%

Still filing today

68%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyCivil RightsEmploymentOther

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

  • TV
    THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $1.1M · revenue +432%
  • GP
    GROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $693k · revenue +194%
  • WA
    WE ARE ALX INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • GU
    GALVANIZE USA
    one grant, 2024 · $500k
  • WA
    WORKING AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $500k · revenue +73%
  • FS
    FIDELITY SUNRISE GIFT FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $200k

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
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…

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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5
Massachusetts Regional Employment Board Association

The massachusetts workforce association (mwa) is a statewide membership association that leads, advocates and convenes on behalf of the massachusetts workforce development system.

Employment
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Inc

Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…

Human Services
8
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
9
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
League of Women Voters of Massachusetts

Lwvma, a nonpartisan organization, encourages informed and active participation in government, works to increase understanding of major public policy issues, and influences public policy through education and advocacy.

Civil Rights
12
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%8%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr19%36%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/115
the rest of the field
12%
5,390/46,851

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.

04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 190 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/98
Grantees still filing
47/98
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INDIVISIBLE FUND — $650,000 · OtherINDIVISIBLE FUNDGALVANIZE USA — $500,000 · OtherGALVANIZE USAWORKING AMERICA — $500,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICASpringfield Public Schools — $233,000 · OtherFIDELITY SUNRISE GIFT FUND — $200,000 · OtherTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 · Other+144 more — $3,290,711 · Other+144 moreTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $1,150,000 · Civil RightsTHE VOTER PARTICIPA…FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $300,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY…INDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $300,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICS+2 more — $55,000 · Civil RightsGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $693,000 · Human ServicesGROWING PLACES G…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC — $230,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CH…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $160,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA …Cambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $105,000 · Human ServicesCambodian Mutual…GROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION — $85,000 · Human ServicesGROWING PLACES E…BROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesBROCKTON WORKERS…BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $80,000 · Human Services+5 more — $94,500 · Human Services+5 moreCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $187,500 · EmploymentCENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $159,500 · EmploymentROOT CHANGE INC — $150,000 · Employment+2 more — $20,000 · EmploymentTIDES FOUNDATION — $240,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $95,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $51,500 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS LGBT BUSINESS NETWORK INC — $45,000 · PhilanthropyGive Black Alliance — $30,000 · PhilanthropyBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $25,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $17,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN VISION ALLIANCE — $500,000 · Public BenefitFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $100,000 · Community ImprovementWE ARE ALX INC — $90,000 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $35,000 · Community ImprovementNEW PROFIT INC — $25,000 · Community ImprovementWOMENEXECS ON BOARDS INC — $21,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER GROVE HALL MAIN STREET INC — $15,000 · Community Improvement+3 more — $21,000 · Community Improvement
Other$5,568,711Civil Rights$1,805,000Human Services$1,532,500Employment$517,000Philanthropy$504,500Public Benefit$500,000Community Improvement$307,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER — $1,150,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetGROWING PLACES GARDEN PROJECT INC — $693,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetWORKING AMERICA — $500,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $240,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC — $230,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $195,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetCENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC — $187,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $160,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED — $159,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetROOT CHANGE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc — $105,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC — $105,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $95,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWE ARE ALX INC — $90,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetGROWING PLACES EARLY EDUCATION AND YOUTH RECREATION — $85,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetBROCKTON WORKERS ALLIANCE INC — $85,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetBERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC — $80,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLA COMUNIDAD INC — $60,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $51,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR WOMEN'S POLICY RESEARCH — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LGBT BUSINESS NETWORK INC — $45,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetMASS INSIGHT EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC — $42,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGive Black Alliance — $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE WAGE PROJECT INC — $30,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFood Research & Action Center — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUrban College Of Boston — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFJC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENEXECS ON BOARDS INC — $21,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budget
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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…Combined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…Health Resources in A…Nellie Mae Education …Point32health Foundat…Liberty Mutual Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…Project Bread-The Wal…
Boston Foundation IncMA66.2× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Health Resources in Action Inc · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Point32health Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger 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 Eos 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
  • New North Citizens Council Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Social Capital Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Bar Association — 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce — 0% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Family Table Collaborative Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Eos Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Eos Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 190 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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