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Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Botetourt Resource Center | $25,000 |
| Pazapa | $25,000 |
| Cambridge Council on Aging | $10,000 |
| Edwards Foundation Rescued Animals | $10,000 |
| New Freedom Farm | $5,000 |
| The Care Center | $5,000 |
| Tunefoolery music | $5,000 |
| Ironwood Pig Sanctuary | $2,500 |
| Merrimack Immigration Center | $2,500 |
| St Marys Orthodox Church | $2,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +36% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
58 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 50 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- BRBOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%
- TMTUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TMTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- EREdwards Rescued Animals Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
- FTFace to Face Germantownone grant, 2022 · $3k
- IFIng Fusion Scholarship at MITone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Bay cove human services' mission is to partner with people to overcome challenges and realize personal potential. bay cove pursues this mission by providing individualized and compassionate services to people facing the challenges…
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
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…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Lifebridge's mission is to offer men and women the opportunities they need to end their homelessness. we believe that the way to solve this crisis, one person at a time, is to provide housing with supportive services, to encourage personal…
Family promise north shore boston's mission is to prevent and end family homelessness. we promote access to economic opportunity and housing stability through a holistic, family-centered, community-based response.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 91 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 BOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds New Freedom Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Primavera Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bridge House Inc ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ON THEIR OWN ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH AREA COMMUNITY CLOSET ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Cambridge Community Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Alchemy Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Fresh Pond Tr 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.
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Community Health Programs Incorporated — 13% 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
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Tunefoolery Music Inc — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.