How much did Foley Hoag Foundation grant in FY2024?

Arts & Culture$340kHuman Services$332kEducation$297kYouth Development$186kCommunity Improvement$120kHousing & Shelter$120kCrime & Legal$95kRecreation & Sports$64kCivil Rights$64kOther$937k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

arts

2019

learningarts

2020

food bankurbanstringsbusinessviolencereentryleap

2021

food pantryculturallyengagementchinatownmaterialsafterschoolvietnamese

2022

farmcase managementequitymend-a-houseshelterimmigrantaffordable housing

2023

staffingexpansionprogrammingkidsleadershipgreater bostondance

2024

workshopsorganizingcreativeenglish languagehopemakingscholars

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 60 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k57 grants · $325k
$10k–50k3 grants · $37k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$69k

Total assets

Largest grants

REBUILDING TOGETHER BOSTON INC$17,000
UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY INC$10,000
WOMANHOOD PROJECT INC$10,000
THEATREZONE INC$8,000
PASSION FOR LEARNING INC$7,000
EXAM SCHOOLS PARTNERSHIP INITIATIVE$7,000
THEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED$7,000
HEARTOFAGIANT FOUNDATION INC$7,000
LOUDOUN LITERACY COUNCIL$7,000
HORIZONS GREATER BOSTON INC$7,000
EMERGING SCHOLARS PROGRAM INC$7,000
THE CITY SCHOOL INC AMATULLAH MERVIN$7,000
BOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC$7,000
CARROLL GARDENS ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED$7,000
OPEN DOOR NJNY INC$7,000

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $327k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.2M · 80 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

80 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

173

Total granted

$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+99%

Still filing today

84%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

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

ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC
3× · 2021–2024 · $28k · revenue +246%
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REBUILDING TOGETHER BOSTON INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $27k · revenue +85%
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BOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $22k · revenue +118%

Funded once

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TSNE MISSIONWORKS
one grant, 2020 · $18k
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MEKONG INC
one grant, 2021 · $18k · revenue +22%
CHINESE STAFF AND WORKERS ASSOCIATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +52%

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.

Artsboston Inc

Artsboston connects people to and through the arts. we activate audience building and engagement tools, professional development networks and resources, and arts research to foster the growth of an equitable and inclusive arts community in…

Arts & Culture

Cityworks Dc

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…

Education

Youth Represent Inc

To build power and opportunity for black, latine, and other youth of color.

Crime & Legal

The Bronx Council On the Arts

A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and builds strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.

Arts & Culture

Young Audiences New York Inc

Using art, as a catalyst for exploring creativity and advancing equity among communities in nyc.

Arts & Culture

Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.

International

Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education

Digital Girl Incorporated

Digital Girl, Inc. is a non-profit organization founded in Brooklyn, NY. DGI is dedicated to empowering the underserved youth of our communities, especially young girls, to pursue studies and careers in STEM (Science, Technology,…

Education

Digital Ready Inc

We activate the creative potential of high school students, especially underrepresented young people, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in boston's innovation economy.

Education

District of Columbia Access to Justice

Work with DC courts, private bar & legal services providers to increase legal representations for low & moderate income DC residents, enhance efficiency of legal services, and reduce barriers to the judicial system.

Crime & Legal

Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights

Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc

BAX/Brooklyn Arts Exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Manhattan Improvement Corp and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%5/235

the rest of the field

10%

4,105/42,123

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.

05the grantee network

233 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

127

Early backer (in before they grew)

219/233

Grantees still filing

185/233

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,160,550Arts & Culture$339,550Human Services$332,100Education$296,600Youth Development$185,500Community Improvement$119,500Housing & Shelter$119,500

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.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA64.2× affinity37 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Lenny Zakim Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · The Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz · Eastern Bank Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · New York Women's Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · North Star Fund 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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

49get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SOUTH BOSTON EN ACCION INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 364622949 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SOUTH BOSTON EN ACCION INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 43% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Foley Hoag Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Foley Hoag Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Foley Hoag Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

233 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foley Hoag Foundation?

More from the funding graph

Foley Hoag Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

233 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foley Hoag Foundation?

More from the funding graph