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Florian O Bartlett Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Florian O Bartlett Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Employment$60kHousing & Shelter$50kHuman Services$40kEducation$40kFood & Nutrition$17kInternational$11kEnvironment$10kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$895k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOUND IN TRANSLATION$15,000
EVKIDS INC$15,000
MASSACHUSETTS FDN FOR THE HUMANITIES$10,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 10%HARBORCOV: $10k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $15k → 16%CHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY: $10k → 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.
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$145k · 4 repeat orgs$93k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
7

Total granted

$145k
$83k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+1%

Still filing today

75%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureOther
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

  • FI
    Found in Translation Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $60k · revenue -51%
  • MB
    METRO BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP
    2× · 2022–2023 · $30k
  • EI
    EVKIDS INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $30k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2020 · $17k · revenue +1%
  • LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +42%
  • CI
    CARIBBEAN INTEGRATION CMTY DEV
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
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
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
2
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
4
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
5
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
8
Rar-Ma Inc

Our mission is to close the literacy opportunity gap among children from birth to age six in under-resourced communities by helping families develop and practice shared home reading habits.

Education
9
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc

The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of change in their communities.

Education
10
Good Jobs Institute Inc

The mission of good jobs institute is to help companies thrive by creating good jobs. the institute achieves its goals by providing engagement and advisory support to companies on how to provide better opportunities for low wage workers…

Education
11
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haley House Inc & Affiliates; the most unlike its peers is Evkids 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

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

METRO BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP: $30,000 · OtherMETRO BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIPEVKIDS INC: $30,000 · OtherEVKIDS INCGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $17,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCCARIBBEAN INTEGRATION CMTY DEV: $11,000 · OtherCARIBBEAN INTEGRATION CMTY DEVENGLISH AT LARGE INC: $10,000 · OtherENGLISH AT LARGE INCEARTHEN VESSELS INC: $10,000 · OtherEARTHEN VESSELS INCFound in Translation Inc: $60,000 · EducationFound in Translation IncCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF …LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOP…HARBORCOV INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHARBORCOV INCHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$108,000Education$60,000Human Services$50,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

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 budgetFound in Translation Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEVKIDS INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S SERVICES OF ROXBURY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARBORCOV INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetENGLISH AT LARGE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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 IncCummings Foundation G…Rockland Trust - East…Eastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA17× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Florian O Bartlett Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Florian O Bartlett Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 45%
  • Lawrence Family Development Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Harborcov Inc: 76% of income from government
  • English at Large Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2rely 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.

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 12 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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