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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 it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
Indivisible Civics$300,000
Focus for Democracy Fund$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
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston$50,000
The Greater Boston Food Bank$50,000
Root Change$50,000
Boston Educational Development Foundation$30,000
Bedford Public Schools$30,000
Women's Foundation of Boston Inc$26,500
Family Table Collaborative$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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 CORP: $3k → 8%WE CAN: $3k → 8%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%YW BOSTON: $130k → 16%YW BOSTON: $50k → 16%YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF 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
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
CA
KS
NC
DC
OK
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

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

04Its field

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.

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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

98 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. 98 of the 190 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/98
Grantees still filing
47/98
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

INDIVISIBLE FUND: $650,000 · OtherINDIVISIBLE FUNDWORKING AMERICA: $500,000 · OtherWORKING AMERICAGALVANIZE USA: $500,000 · OtherGALVANIZE USASpringfield 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…INDIVISIBLE CIVICS: $300,000 · Civil RightsINDIVISIBLE CIVICSFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND: $300,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY…+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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND: $300,000 over 1y, 4.1% 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 budgetGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROOT CHANGE INC: $150,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetNEW NORTH CITIZENS COUNCIL INC: $105,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCambodian Mutual Assistance Association of Greater Lowell Inc: $105,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlack Voters Matter Fund Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 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 budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF UNIVERSITY WOMEN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 budgetTHE WAGE PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 45% of budgetPIONEER VALLEY WORKERS CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGive Black Alliance: $30,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW PROFIT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFJC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUrban College Of Boston: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON WOMEN'S FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFood Research & Action Center: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Eos Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Eos Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%5%19%42%75%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 190 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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