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Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc

The mission of the foundation is to support boston center for youth and families in its work to enhance the quality of life for boston residents by partnering with community center councils, agencies, and businesses to support the children, youth, individuals and families through a wide range of comprehensive programs and services…

$176k
Granted FY2020
13
Itemized grants FY2020
13
Organizations funded FY2020
8%
First-time grantees FY2020
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Itemized, FY2020
$115k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2020
$9,450
Largest grant, FY2020
$14,735
Organizations funded a year
10 to 17
FY2017 to FY2020
States reached, FY2020
1
Total assets, FY2020
$1.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2020, 8% of the organizations Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202013$115k8%
FY201910$98k20%
FY201813$129k15%
FY201717$621kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Public Benefit$475kRecreation & Sports$451kHuman Services$22kEducation$10kArts & Culture$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2020, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 21 grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 18 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn P Holland Community Council Inc: $61,915 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetRichard J Murphy Community School Council Inc: $43,450 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetBlackstone Community Center Council Inc: $38,890 over 4y, 13% of budgetNorth End Youth Organizationinc F/K/A Nazzaro Recreation Center Inc: $37,935 over 4y, 9.5% of budgetJackson Mann Community School and Council Inc: $36,710 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetRoslindale Community School Council Inc: $31,265 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetOhrenberger Community School Council: $26,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMattapan Community Center Inc: $23,200 over 2y, 14% of budgetArchdale Community Center Council Inc: $21,200 over 2y, 30% of budgetHyde Park Municipal Building Community Center Inc: $20,809 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMission Hill Community School Council Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetJamaica Plain Community Centers Inc: $17,970 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYMCA of Greater Boston Huntington Avenue Realty Corporation: $17,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetMartin Pino Community Center Council Inc: $15,250 over 2y, 17% of budgetKent Charlestown Community School Council Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetParis Street Community Council Inc: $11,525 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetShelburne Community School Council: $6,600 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetJames F Condon School Council Inc: $5,800 over 1y, 8.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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Find your warmest path to Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc 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.

About Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc

How much does Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc give?
Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc reported 13 itemized grants totaling $115,335, out of $175,750 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2020 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2020.
What does Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2020, its largest causes are Public Benefit (49%), Recreation & Sports (47%), Human Services (2%).
Who are Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2020: City of Boston ($475k), John P Holland Community Council Inc ($62k), Richard J Murphy Community School Council Inc ($43k).
Does Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2020, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc based?
Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc is based in MA.

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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $5k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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