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Foundation M at a glance

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Foundation M

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$922k
Granted FY2025still arriving
93
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Animals$988kEnvironment$573kPhilanthropy$528kHuman Services$506kFood & Nutrition$430kInternational$340kCivil Rights$339kHousing & Shelter$319kOther$0
02FY2025 · 93 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k53 grants · $341k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $531k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$9,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Appalachian Mountain Club$50,000
Union of Concerned Scientists$40,000
Audubon Vermont$35,000
Solihten Institute$25,000
NAACP$20,000
Planned Parenthood Federation of America$20,000
ACLU$20,000
National Public Radio$18,000
WGBH$18,000
New England Aquarium$15,000
Doctors Without Borders$15,000
MSPCA Nevins Farm$15,000
Equine Advocates$15,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lawrence$12,000
Farm Sanctuary$12,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $599k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Interfaith Social Services: $10k → 7%SOLIHTEN INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%Charity Navigator: $7k → 7%Interfaith Social Services: $10k → 7%Families First: $10k → 8%Solihten Institute: $25k → 12%Charity Navigator: $5k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $10k → 7%Families First: $9k → 8%FAMILY SERVICES OF MERRIMACK VALLEY: $15k → 10%THE SAMARITAN INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%Interfaith Social Services: $8k → 7%FAMILY SERVICES OF MERRIMACK VALLEY: $15k → 10%Solihten Institute: $25k → 12%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 7%Solihten Institute: $25k → 12%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $7k → 7%American Red Cross: $15k → 14%SOLIHTEN INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $7k → 7%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%SOLIHTEN INSTITUTE: $25k → 12%American Red Cross: $10k → 14%World Food Program USA: $10k → 14%World Food Program USA: $10k → 14%National Urban League: $8k → 17%National Urban League: $5k → 17%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $5k → 16%La Colaborativa: $12k → 16%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%Pathways for Children: $10k → 10%Pathways for Children: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%Pathways for Children: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $9k → 10%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $10k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $10k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAMS: $10k → 8%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $10k → 8%ON THE RISE: $8k → 8%RESPOND Inc: $8k → 8%Community Servings: $8k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $7k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $6k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
MA
OR
NV
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 6% of Foundation M’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Foundation Mlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.7M · 116 repeat orgs$500k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.

116 repeat relationships: 78 still active in FY2025, 38 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

116
51

Total granted

$4.7M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • Appalachian Mountain Club
    6× · 2019–2025 · $350k · revenue +23%
  • THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $290k · revenue +6%
  • SI
    SAMARITAN INSTITUTE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $175k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +49%
  • PP
    PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VC
    VERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -43%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
2
Animal Outlook Inc

Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.

Animals
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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4
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
5
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
6
Mercy for Animals Inc

Mercy for animals' mission is to construct a compassionate food system that is not just kind to animals but essential for the future of our planet and all who share it. our vision of a world where animals are respected, protected, and free…

Animals
7
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
11
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
12
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

127 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 127 of the 185 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
125/127
Grantees still filing
91/127
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Audubon Vermont: $230,000 · OtherAudubon VermontROSIE'S PLACE INC: $125,000 · Other+115 more: $2,376,850 · Other+115 moreNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $110,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND W…NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $80,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND A…EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $75,000 · AnimalsEQUINE ADVOCA…THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN …FARM SANCTUARY INC: $56,000 · AnimalsFARM SANCTUAR…INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $46,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL…LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,500 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 · AnimalsMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $29,500 · AnimalsXERCES SOCIETY INC: $25,000 · Animals+11 more: $124,500 · Animals+11 moreSAMARITAN INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN I…PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $69,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FO…INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH …FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $49,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Na…FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $22,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $20,000 · Human Services+10 more: $87,000 · Human Services+10 moreTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $290,000 · InternationalTHE UNION O…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $170,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SA…AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 · InternationalAMERICARES …Mercy Corps: $40,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $22,000 · International+2 more: $18,000 · InternationalAppalachian Mountain Club: $350,000 · EnvironmentAppalachi…MERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $30,000 · EnvironmentMERRIMACK…Ocean Alliance Inc: $20,000 · Environment+6 more: $60,000 · Environment+6 moreFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $424,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $10,000 · Community ImprovementAmerican Civil Liberties Union Foundation: $70,000 · Civil RightsNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $57,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,500 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $15,000 · Civil Rights+2 more: $9,000 · Civil Rights
Other$2,731,850Animals$697,500Human Services$599,000International$585,000Environment$460,000Community Improvement$434,000Civil Rights$251,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $424,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $350,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC: $290,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN INSTITUTE INC: $175,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $170,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $90,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $80,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED: $75,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $71,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $69,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $66,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $65,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $60,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $59,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $57,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $56,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $54,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $49,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY INROADS INC: $49,000 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC: $47,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $46,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $32,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $31,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $30,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $29,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $26,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER: $25,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetXERCES SOCIETY INC: $25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $24,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
  • Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds American Civil Liberties Union Foundation ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INROADS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncEssex County Communit…United Way Of Massach…Rogers Family Foundat…Rockland Trust Charit…Highland Street Conne…Salem Five Charitable…Cambridge Savings Cha…Arbella Insurance Fou…Agnes M Lindsay Trust
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA79.3× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Foundation M funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Foundation M. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Pathways for Childreninc: 86% of income from government
  • Respond Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: 40% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Vermont College of Fine Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Foundation M?

Find your warmest path to Foundation M 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.

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 185 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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