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Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$972k
Granted FY2025still arriving
73
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Crime & Legal$4.3MHuman Services$915kYouth Development$662kEducation$452kHousing & Shelter$337kRecreation & Sports$183kReligion$169kHealth$161kOther$0
02FY2025 · 73 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k21 grants · $102k
  • $10k–50k51 grants · $800k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE$70,000
PRISONERS LEGAL SERVICES$30,000
WORCESTER COMMON GROUND$30,000
CENTER FOR LAW BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR$25,000
CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE$25,000
MASS INC$22,500
NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT$20,000
EMERSON COLLEGE$20,000
OLD COLONY YMCA$20,000
CLARK UNIVERSITY$20,000
PETEY GREENE PROGRAM$20,000
RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$20,000
ONE CAN HELP INC$20,000
SECOND CHANCE CARS$20,000
TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $929k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $15k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $10k → 10%OLD COLONY YMCA: $20k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $20k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $20k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%NEADS INC: $23k → 11%NEADS INC: $17k → 11%NEADS INC: $17k → 11%NEADS INC: $17k → 11%NEADS INC: $15k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $16k → 16%NEADS INC: $14k → 11%NEADS INC: $13k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%NEADS INC: $10k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%EDINBURG CENTER: $15k → 8%ROOM TO GROW INC: $12k → 16%SECOND CHANCE CARS: $30k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $11k → 16%SECOND CHANCE CARS: $20k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CARS INC: $15k → 8%SECOND CHANCE CARS: $15k → 8%COMMUNITY TEAMWORK INC: $15k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $11k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $10k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $10k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $28k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $18k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $16k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $12k → 16%FATHER'S UPLIFT INC: $15k → 16%FATHER'S UPLIFT INC: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW INC: $14k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CA
VA
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 110 repeat orgs$957k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

110 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2025, 57 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

110
66

Total granted

$7.0M
$753k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+31%

Still filing today

68%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther

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

  • CR
    COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $632k · revenue +110%
  • CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $288k · revenue +48%
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • PM
    PHOENIX MULTISPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue +263%
  • PL
    PRISON LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · $33k
  • MI
    MA INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
3
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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4
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…

Health
5
Lifestream Inc

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.

Health
6
Community Partners in Action Inc

The organization is a non-profit agency building community by providing services that promote accountability, dignity and restoration for people affected by criminal justice system.

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7
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
8
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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9
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
10
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
11
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
12
Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ithrive Games Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional Trade Associat…University Education & Rese…Community Cable Access Cent…Early Childhood Education C…School Support FoundationsInternational Development O…Residential Care & Support …Social Change Leadership De…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr19%39%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr14%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%46%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr14%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/125
the rest of the field
11%
3,396/30,030

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.

04the grantee network

121 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. 121 of the 197 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/121
Grantees still filing
86/121
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $175,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS — $142,500 · OtherMA COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK — $126,500 · OtherYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC — $153,500 · Other+112 more — $3,074,921 · Other+112 moreCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $632,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUS…CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC — $287,500 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTI…The Petey Greene Program Inc — $154,000 · Crime & LegalThe Petey Greene Program In…NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $112,000 · Crime & LegalNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJE…THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC — $95,000 · Crime & Legal+24 more — $670,000 · Crime & Legal+24 moreOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $145,000 · Human ServicesOLD COLONY YO…NEADS INC — $124,053 · Human ServicesNEADS INCHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $86,000 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW AD…COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $85,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SER…SECOND CHANCE CARS INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesSECOND CHANCE…ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $77,000 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CO…PINE STREET INN INC — $71,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET I…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $63,000 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem B…FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $55,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIF…ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $45,857 · Human ServicesTHE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED — $34,025 · Human Services+8 more — $102,500 · Human Services+8 moreEMERSON COLLEGE — $112,000 · EducationNEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD — $100,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $78,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $70,000 · EducationSARITA AND CLAIRE WRIGHT LUCAS FOUNDATION — $67,000 · EducationROBERT F KENNEDY COMMUNITY ALLIANCE INC — $42,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $40,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF CLARK UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · Education+5 more — $46,500 · EducationSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH — $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE CAN HELP INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $79,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $26,000 · Youth Development+4 more — $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC — $130,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC — $62,500 · Housing & ShelterMADISON PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterRIA Inc — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC — $99,850 · Community ImprovementDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC — $40,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $20,000 · Community ImprovementMADISON PARK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP — $10,000 · Community ImprovementESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Other$3,672,421Crime & Legal$1,950,500Human Services$968,935Education$590,500Youth Development$412,500Housing & Shelter$262,500Community Improvement$224,850

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $632,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC — $287,500 over 9y, 6.7% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $175,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc — $154,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetYOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC — $153,500 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $145,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS — $142,500 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetWORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC — $130,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetNEADS INC — $124,053 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $112,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT — $112,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetPrison Policy Initiative — $105,000 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC — $104,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC — $100,565 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetNEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD — $100,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC — $99,850 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetStraight Ahead Ministries INC — $97,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetTHE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC — $95,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSTRATEGIES FOR YOUTH — $95,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetONE CAN HELP INC — $90,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC — $87,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC — $86,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $85,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE CARS INC — $80,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $79,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $78,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $77,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetEveryday Boston Inc — $72,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $71,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC — $70,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSARITA AND CLAIRE WRIGHT LUCAS FOUNDATION — $67,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $65,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc — $63,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S TRUST INC — $62,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC — $62,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBETHANY HOUSE MINISTRIES INC — $60,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $55,750 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $55,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $55,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $55,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc — $52,342 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOAK HILL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATI — $50,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID INC — $50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRISON BOOK PROGRAM — $48,000 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetCITIZENS FOR SAFETY INC — $47,500 over 3y, 23% of budget
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 COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH ADVOCACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS CORRECTIONAL LEGAL SERVICES INC DBA PRISONERS' LEGAL SVCS ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER COMMON GROUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NEADS INC ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds Prison Policy Initiative ↗
  • Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW GARDEN SOCIETY LTD ↗
  • Who funds MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC ↗
  • Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE FOR A NEW COMMONWEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE CARS INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Everyday Boston Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY INC ↗
  • Who funds SARITA AND CLAIRE WRIGHT LUCAS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S TRUST 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.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way Of Massach…Highland Street Conne…Liberty Mutual Founda…Children's Hospital C…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …Rockland Trust Charit…The Philanthropy Conn…Barr Foundation
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA77.9× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Philanthropy Connection Inc · Barr Foundation

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 Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Key Program Incorporated — 86% of income from government
  • Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
  • The Edinburg Center Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
  • Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
  • New Beginnings Reentry Services Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
  • The Performance Project Inc — 40% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
  • Council of Juvenile Justice Administrators Inc — 30% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
  • Strategies for Youth — 21% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
  • New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
  • Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Springfield Boys & Girls Club Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Common Ground Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
21get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 197 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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