· Private foundation
Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of GREATER BOSTON COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 2ND ACT RECOVERY | $7,500 |
| RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES | $7,500 |
| SELF ESTEEM BOSTON | $7,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF STONEHAM & WAKEFIELD | $7,500 |
| LIFEBRIDGE | $7,500 |
| VICTORY PROGRAMS | $7,500 |
| CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE | $7,500 |
| MASS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY | $7,500 |
| ROUND TABLE INC | $7,500 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO | $7,500 |
| MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES | $5,000 |
| YWCA MALDEN CENTER FOR WOMEN | $5,000 |
| MAURA WILKINS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GAVIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +13%- MUMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +30%
- BRBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +76%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES AT LABOURE CENTERone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…
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…
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…
charitable, educational, and social welfare services.
We support individuals, families, and the community with our continuum of care services with integrated, culturally competent behaviourial health, substance use recovery, and rehabilitative justice services.
To empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental illness and other chronic medical conditions; overcome homelessness; and achieve health and wellness through comprehensive, integrated care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gavin Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Round Table Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 19 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 INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism 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.
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 43% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 32% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 18% 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.
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