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Foley Hoag Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k58 grants · $330k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REBUILDING TOGETHER BOSTON INC | $17,000 |
| WOMANHOOD PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC | $10,000 |
| THEATREZONE INC | $8,000 |
| WASHINGTON URBAN DEBATE LEAGUE | $7,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF MUSIC & EDUCATIO | $7,000 |
| CENTER FOR ALL ABILITIES INC | $7,000 |
| FJC | $7,000 |
| OPEN DOOR NJNY INC | $7,000 |
| E INC | $7,000 |
| MARY HOUSE INC | $7,000 |
| BOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC | $7,000 |
| EDUCATIONAL THEATRE COMPANY | $7,000 |
| THE CITY SCHOOL INC AMATULLAH MERVIN | $7,000 |
| D C ARTS AND HUMANITIES EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE IN | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $330k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +30% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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
- TCThe City School Inc5× · 2019–2024 · $42k · revenue +50%
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC3× · 2019–2021 · $30k · revenue +27%
ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- MIMekong Incone grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue -22%
- SHSOJOURNER HOUSE INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -4%
- PHPALANTE HARLEM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +68%
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.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Our mission is to dramatically improve the early career outcomes of dc youth and young adults of color by creating innovative programs and by mobilizing employers, educators, and city leaders to create a local, diverse talent pipeline. our…
Training young adults from low income communities for high growth careers as software engineers, and connecting them with jobs.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
We empower people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Youth represent uses legal services, policy advocacy, peer education, and other tools to build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color who the criminal legal system and other systems of oppression harm the most.…
The dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.
Digital Girl, Inc. (DGI) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of New York City, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM ( Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) disciplines.
Wecnyc builds unity and power among communities of diverse immigrant women through education, collective support, direct services and practicing civic engagement.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open City Advocates and the most unlike its peers is The Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society. 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 17 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
246 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 246 of the 281 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 The City School Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE-AMERICAN FAMILY ALLIANCE FOR MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALRAY TAYLOR SECOND CHANCE SCHOLARSHIP FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATREZONE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER MALDEN ASIAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds LEVEL GROUND MIXED MARTIAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WE ARE NOT AFRAID COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASHIYANAA INC ↗
- Who funds SARITA AND CLAIRE WRIGHT LUCAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SISTERS UNCHAINED INC ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE YOUTH AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MUSICONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds One Bead Project ↗
- Who funds Mekong Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY STRINGS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LATINO STEM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds AN OPEN BOOK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOJOURNER HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN WOMEN FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds PALANTE HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Islander Domestic Violence Resource Project ↗
- Who funds DAMAYAN MIGRANT WORKERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAMESE AMERICANS SERVICES ↗
- Who funds PROJECT NEW YORKER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Open Hands Legal Services Inc ↗
- Who funds METRO DC COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHINATOWN YOUTH INITIATIVES ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Barr Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 Foley Hoag 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.
- Greater Malden Asian American Community Coalition Inc — 100% of income from government
- Triangle Inc — 90% of income from government
- Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention Inc — 73% of income from government
- Chelsea Restoration — 44% of income from government
- New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc — 42% of income from government
- Tree Eastie Inc — 38% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Mystic Learning Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Conflict Resolution Center of Montgomery County Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
- Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 21% of income from government
- Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc — 19% of income from government
- Anikaya Akhra Inc — 18% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
- Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Theatre Espresso Incorporated — 8% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
- City Strings United Inc — 7% of income from government
- Arts Connect International Inc — 6% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boston Dance Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Action Youth Media Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Chamber Music Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chinese Culture Connection Inc — 2% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Abilities Dance Inc — 1% of income from government
- Dunamis Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Asian Women for Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work 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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