· Private foundation
Franklin Square House Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k13 grants · $423k
- $50k–250k12 grants · $759k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRANSITION HOUSE | $116,441 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $86,588 |
| NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC | $77,388 |
| EMPATH | $64,330 |
| CITIZENS INN | $59,504 |
| CASPARBAYCOVE | $54,995 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDCARE CENTER | $50,000 |
| WOBURN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN | $50,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER NEWBURYPORT | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $50,000 |
| ABCD | $50,000 |
| HARBORCOV | $49,545 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $48,992 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $48,922 |
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 (FY17–25, $3.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +79% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k 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
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN4× · 2019–2024 · $411k · revenue +41%
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC6× · 2017–2025 · $329k · revenue +260%
LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $258k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- UUUUMone grant, 2020 · $68k
- LILEO INCone grant, 2024 · $53k
- MOMAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +389%
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.
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…
Rental assistance received from a government agency under section 8 of the housing assistance payments program. providing technical assistance and training to low-income rural communities and other agencies in order to provide or enhance…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Semcoa's mission is to advocate for and provide support to individuals, families, and communities in the areas of substance use, mental illness, domestic violence, homelessness, and parenting.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Young Women's Christian Association of Newburyport. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 108 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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds EMMAUS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERBOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Woburn Council of Social Concern Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CASA ESPERANZA INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds YWCA CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Action Inc ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Brockton Day Nursery Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Health Resources in Action Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Franklin Square House Foundation 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.
- Triumph Inc — 89% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Reach Inc — 85% of income from government
- Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
- People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Guild of Saint Agnes of Worcester — 60% of income from government
- Casa Esperanza Inc — 59% of income from government
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Wesley Child Care Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Volunteers of America of Massachusetts Inc — 46% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Brockton Day Nursery Inc — 36% of income from government
- Aspire Developmental Services Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Salem Community Child Care Inc — 26% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sojourner House Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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.