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Frank R Peters Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$559k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$179k
Largest
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$575kHuman Services$392kCrime & Legal$165kEducation$110kInternational$90kHealth$75kRecreation & Sports$75kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $375k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $179k
$15,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS$179,060
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST$20,000
TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC$20,000
YOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION$20,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER$20,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON$15,000
BIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MA$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS METRO SOUTH$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON INC$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER$15,000
FAMILY SERVICES MERRIMACK VALLEY$15,000
GIRLS' LEAP$15,000
GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS$15,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL$15,000
OUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $15k → 11%AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM: $10k → 11%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $10k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $10k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS INC: $10k → 8%URBANO PROJECT: $10k → 16%URBANO PROJECT: $10k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%URBANO PROJECT: $10k → 16%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON INC: $10k → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 38 repeat orgs$438k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +44% for those funded once.

38 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
23

Total granted

$2.8M
$313k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+44%

Still filing today

74%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther
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

  • PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $545k · revenue +33%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +39%
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $110k · revenue +253%

Funded once

  • MA
    MA APPLESEED CENTER FOR LAW AND
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SAUGUS
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CA
    CHILDRENS ADVOCACY CENTER OF
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Billerica Inc

To enable all young people, especially those that need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens.

Youth Development
2
Boys & Girls Club of Marshfield Inc

The organization's mission is to enable and inspire all young people to realize their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens as well as become tomorrows capable leaders, while supporting local families and community.

Youth Development
3
The Boys and Girls Club of Assabet Valley Inc

The mission of the boys & girls club of assabet valley is to promote the growth of young people in our community by empowering them to become productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Human Services
4
The Open Center for Children Inc

Since 1972, the open center for children has worked in partnership with families to create a nurturing early education and care experience. the play-based curriculum inspires children to become motivated, self-directed learners, feel…

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5
The Boys and Girls Clubs of Metropolitan Baltimore

To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens

Youth Development
6
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
7
Concord Children's Center Inc

To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.

Human Services
8
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

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9
Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc

The organization's mission is to provide a variety of recreational, educational and cultural activities for the youth in the webster-dudley massachusetts area.

Youth Development
10
Boys and Girls Club of Brattleboro Inc

To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential productive, responsible and caring citizens.

Youth Development
11
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

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12
Infant Toddler Children's Center Inc

To be a learning community where children, from infants to school age, come together with experienced and responsive teachers to learn about themselves, each other, and the world.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dignity Matters Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 73 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/53
Grantees still filing
38/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $336,050 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFAMILY SERVICES MERRIMACK VALLEY: $77,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICES MERRIMACK VALLEYBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS: $55,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC: $70,000 · OtherBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $65,000 · OtherAFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC: $65,000 · Other+38 more: $708,000 · Other+38 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GRE…LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CL…WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER I…MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS &…+6 more: $90,000 · Youth Development+6 morePHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $545,060 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSAC…+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesURBANO PROJECT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesUNION CAPITAL INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters Inc: $30,000 · Human Services826 BOSTON INC: $60,000 · EducationTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC: $40,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INC: $15,000 · EducationFLARE EDUCATION INC: $10,000 · EducationLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsBEYOND SOCCER INC: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 · Public Benefit
Other$1,376,050Youth Development$710,000Philanthropy$555,060Human Services$235,000Education$150,000Recreation & Sports$115,000Public Benefit$90,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $545,060 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC: $90,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $90,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC: $80,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC: $70,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $70,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $65,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC: $65,000 over 6y, 6.2% of budget826 BOSTON INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $40,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC: $40,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBEYOND SOCCER INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetURBANO PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetUNION CAPITAL INC: $30,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHOMAS CHEW MEMORIAL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetANGELS NET FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetUTEC Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOUR BRIGHT FUTURE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCENTERBOARD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC: $13,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREENAGERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY HARVEST PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds LEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICE CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds 826 BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
  • Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
  • Who funds AFRICAN COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC ↗
  • Who funds BEYOND SOCCER INC ↗
  • Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds URBANO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds PARENTCHILD INC ↗
  • Who funds NEWTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗

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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA54.3× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · DCU for Kids · Yawkey Foundation II · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Frank R Peters Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frank R Peters Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
  • House of Peace and Education Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Centerboard Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Newton Community Service Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Community Harvest Project Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Urbano Project Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Community Service Care Inc: 10% of income from government
  • African Cultural Services Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Greenagers Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beyond Soccer Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 73 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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