· Private foundation
Franklin Square House Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $50,000 |
| CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDCARE CENTER | $50,000 |
| ABCD | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $50,000 |
| YWCA OF GREATER NEWBURYPORT | $50,000 |
| WOBURN COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL CONCERN | $50,000 |
| HARBORCOV | $49,545 |
| PROJECT HOPE | $48,992 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $48,922 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- YOYWCA OF GREATER LAWRENCEone grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 108 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Franklin Square House Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Franklin Square House Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
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