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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.

$92k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$110kInternational$60kHousing & Shelter$34kAnimals$33kEducation$19kFood & Nutrition$13kArts & Culture$10kHealth$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$5,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$229k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Merrimack Immigration Center$2,500
Ironwood Pig Sanctuary$2,500
St Marys Orthodox Church$2,000
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%Youth on Their Own: $750 → 10%Botetourt Resource Center: $5k → 10%Youth on Their Own: $1k → 20%Botetourt Resource Center: $25k → 14%Botetourt Resource Center: $10k → 7%Solutions at Work: $3k → 8%On the Rise: $3k → 8%St Francis House: $750 → 8%Botetourt Resource Center: $5k → 8%Bridge House: $750 → 8%St Francis House: $750 → 8%Plymouth Area Community Closet: $750 → 8%Youth on Their Own: $750 → 8%Solutions at Work: $600 → 8%Solutions at Work: $600 → 8%The Childrens' Room: $500 → 8%On the Rise: $500 → 8%On the Rise: $500 → 8%Homeless Empowerment Project: $500 → 8%Family Services of Merrimack Valley: $500 → 8%Northampton Survival Center: $500 → 8%Pine Street Inn: $250 → 8%Pine Street Inn: $250 → 8%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
FL
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$267k · 58 repeat orgs$42k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +18% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
31

Total granted

$267k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+18%

Still filing today

64%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentOther
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

  • BR
    BOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +40%
  • TM
    TUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • TM
    THE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $10k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • ER
    Edwards Rescued Animals Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • FT
    Face to Face Germantown
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
  • IF
    Ing Fusion Scholarship at MIT
    one grant, 2022 · $3k
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
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
2
Citizens Inn Inc

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)

Housing & Shelter
3
Transition House Inc

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…

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4
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

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.

Human Services
5
Preble Street

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.

Human Services
6
Bay Cove Human Services Inc

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…

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7
Womens Resource Center of Newport and Bristol Counties

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.

Human Services
8
Project Hope Boston Inc

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…

Human Services
9
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

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…

Health
10
The Salem Mission Inc

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…

Human Services
11
Family Promise North Shore Boston Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Veterans Inc

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…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home 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.
04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 91 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
36/45
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Pazapa: $30,000 · OtherPazapaPazapa - The Siloe Project: $27,500 · OtherPazapa - The Siloe ProjectCambridge Council on Aging: $25,000 · OtherCambridge Council on AgingCambridge Scholarship Fund: $14,900 · OtherCambridge Scholarship FundNew Freedom Farm Inc: $11,000 · OtherNew Freedom Farm IncEdwards Foundation Rescued Animals: $10,000 · OtherThe Care Center: $9,000 · Other+56 more: $70,800 · Other+56 moreBOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 · Human ServicesBOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTE…The Bridge House Inc: $4,000 · Human ServicesThe Bridge House IncSOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $3,700 · Human ServicesSOLUTIONS AT WORK INCON THE RISE INC: $3,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2,500 · Human Services+6 more: $5,500 · Human Services+6 moreTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $9,500 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $1,000 · Animals+1 more: $250 · AnimalsThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $1,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $700 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INC: $700 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $500 · Housing & ShelterTUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionGood Shepherd Food Bank: $2,000 · Food & NutritionBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $1,200 · HealthDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $1,200 · HealthPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,200 · HealthCASPAR INC: $1,000 · HealthBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $1,000 · Health
Other$198,200Human Services$66,700Animals$10,750Housing & Shelter$10,400Arts & Culture$10,000Food & Nutrition$7,000Health$5,600

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 budgetBOTETOURT RESOURCE CENTER INC: $45,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetNew Freedom Farm Inc: $11,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTUNEFOOLERY MUSIC INC: $10,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetTHE MARY C SCHANZ FOUNDATION: $9,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Primavera Foundation Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge House Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOLUTIONS AT WORK INC: $3,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetON THE RISE INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH ON THEIR OWN: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLYMOUTH AREA COMMUNITY CLOSET: $1,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE-CAMBRIDGE ELDER SERVICES INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH COUNTRY NEWS: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCASPAR INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE RIDGE ABORTION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE MISSIONS MINISTRIES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA PRISON SOCIETY: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CITY RESCUE MISSION INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Institute: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $250 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 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 PLYMOUTH AREA COMMUNITY CLOSET ↗
  • Who funds PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROGRAMS INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY 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 Foundati…Cambridge Community F…Arbella Insurance Fou…Boston Foundation IncEastern Cambridge Fou…Cambridge Savings Cha…Agnes M Lindsay TrustCummings Foundation G…Alchemy FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Charities Aid Foundat…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Fresh Pond Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fresh Pond Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.

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 91 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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