How much did FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH grant in FY2020?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

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2020

camp programyouthprogramyouth ventureprogrammedia arts

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

03FY2020 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

Under $10k9 grants · $69k
$10k–50k4 grants · $46k

$9,450

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

NAZARRO COMMUNITY CENTER$14,735
ARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER$11,200
JACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCILINC$10,000
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$10,000
VINE ST COMMUNITY CENTER$9,500
HYDE PARK MUNICIPAL BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC$9,500
BLACKSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER$9,450
ROSLINDALE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$9,000
MISSION HILL COMMUNITY CENTERS$8,500
OHRENBERGER COMMUNITY CENTERS$6,500
EAST BOSTON HARBORSIDE COUNCIL$6,000
JAMAICA PLAIN COMMUNITY CENTERS$5,700
PINO COMMUNITY CENTER$5,250

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 (FY18–20, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16% — the area typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$275k · 11 repeat orgs$67k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of -22% since the first grant, against -45% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$275k

$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-22%

-45%

Still filing today

45%

40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesOther

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

HC
HOLLAND COMMUNITY CENTER
2× · 2018–2019 · $47k
BC
BLACKSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER
3× · 2018–2020 · $33k
NC
NAZARRO COMMUNITY CENTER
3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue -35%

Funded once

TC
TOBIN COMMUNITY CENTER INC
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -45%
MA
MILDRED AVENUE COMMUNITY CENTER
one grant, 2018 · $9k
K
KENTCHARELSTON
one grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue -48%

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.

Vine Street Community Center Counci

Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA

Community Improvement

Linnton Community Center

After school activities and childcare

Human Services

Kids Community Learning Center

The mission of Kids Community Learning Center is to provide a nurturing environment in which kids grow together outside of school time through creative exploration, meaningful relationships, and fun. After-school and summer programs…

Education

Community Youth Center

Youth Development

Youth Community Help Services Inc

After-school and summer camp programs

Human Services

Creative Kids Club Inc

The Creative Kids Club Inc. cares and supervises about 70 to 90 children. During_ school term when children are dismissed at the end of the school day children are supervised with structured activity until closing time. During summer out…

Education

Courtland Community Center

Education and Recreation

Human Services

Brooktondale Community Center

To enhance quality of life in our community and to foster inclusive community participation by providing appropriate services and programs in an attractive, supportive location.

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Bostons Bridge to Excellence Inc

Extended learning after school and summer academy programs for children from k-5th grade and provide supplemental educational programs.

Human Services

Sharing Community in Rosedale Inc

Summer enrichment program for children

Human Services

Eastside Student Center

We run an after-school program for students in 5th - 12th grade.

Youth Development

Ipswich Tiger Post Community Center

afterschool program for children.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roslindale Community School Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blackstone Community Center Council Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

16 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)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/16

Grantees still filing

3/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$246,940Recreation & Sports$47,185Education$36,710Human Services$11,500

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH 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

6get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%

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: ARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 043130155 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 ARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER, 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 30% of their budget — diversified.
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.

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Find your warmest path to Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth 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.

FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth?

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FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth?

More from the funding graph