· Public charity
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…
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $115,335 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $175,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $60,415 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k9 grants · $69k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NAZARRO COMMUNITY CENTER | $14,735 |
| ARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER | $11,200 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $10,000 |
| JACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCILINC | $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 |
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 (FY17–20, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- JPJohn P Holland Community Council Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $62k
- RJRichard J Murphy Community School Council Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue -62%
- BCBLACKSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER COUNCIL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $39k
Funded once
- COCITY OF BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $475k
- SCSHELBURNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue -34%
- JFJAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +60%
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.
Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA
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Central Jersey Community Center provided a diverse range of educational programs and activities aimed at community enrichment. These included structured sports programming to promote physical well-being and teamwork, as well as classes…
Enrich life, build character and develop a community consciousness for the benefit of all in the Linnton Community without regard to race, nationality or creed
afterschool program for children
Allow children to exploire their curious minds and captivate what their interests are to spark innovation and reach their full potential
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…
Positive recreational and educational tutoring and basketball program providing intercultural social activities with a focus on developing intelectual and academic social life skills for children in the fourth grade level through high…
The Woodstock Recreation Center is a community recreation and fitness center providing classes and youth sports programs to Woodstock and the surrounding towns.
Activities to support community youth
Youth basketball instruction
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamaica Plain Community Centers 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.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 22 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
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 John P Holland Community Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Richard J Murphy Community School Council Inc ↗
- Who funds BLACKSTONE COMMUNITY CENTER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH END YOUTH ORGANIZATIONINC F/K/A NAZZARO RECREATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JACKSON MANN COMMUNITY SCHOOL AND COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ROSLINDALE COMMUNITY SCHOOL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Ohrenberger Community School Council ↗
- Who funds MATTAPAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARCHDALE COMMUNITY CENTER COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK MUNICIPAL BUILDING COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mission Hill Community School Council Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMAICA PLAIN COMMUNITY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON HUNTINGTON AVENUE REALTY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Martin Pino Community Center Council Inc ↗
- Who funds KENT CHARLESTOWN COMMUNITY SCHOOL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds PARIS STREET COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE COMMUNITY SCHOOL COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds JAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INC ↗
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc 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.
- Ohrenberger Community School Council — 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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