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Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$108k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$96kYouth Development$40kHuman Services$33kEducation$15kHousing & Shelter$13k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$53k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
2ND ACT RECOVERY$7,500
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES$7,500
RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$7,500
SELF ESTEEM BOSTON$7,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF STONEHAM & WAKEFIELD$7,500
LIFEBRIDGE$7,500
VICTORY PROGRAMS$7,500
MASS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY$7,500
ROUND TABLE INC$7,500
MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO$7,500
CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE$7,500
MAURA WILKINS FOUNDATION$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES$5,000
GAVIN FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES: $8k → 7%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $5k → 7%MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES: $5k → 7%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $8k → 16%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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$147k · 11 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$147k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+76%

Still filing today

55%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
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

  • INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • MU
    MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +30%
  • BR
    BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $6k · revenue +76%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES AT LABOURE CENTER
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
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
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc

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…

Health
2
Boston Neighborhood Support Inc
Housing & Shelter
3
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
4
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
5
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
6
Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc
Youth Development
7
Boston Fatherless & Widows Society
—
8
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
9
Boston Banglaaid Inc

charitable, educational, and social welfare services.

Arts & Culture
10
Historic Boston Incorporated
—
11
Bay State Community Services Inc

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.

—
12
Casa Esperanza Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gavin Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE: $15,000 · OtherRFK COMMUNITY ALLIANCE2ND ACT RECOVERY: $15,000 · Other2ND ACT RECOVERYMASS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY: $13,500 · OtherMASS ORGANIZATION FOR ADDICTION RECOVERYLIFEBRIDGE: $13,500 · OtherLIFEBRIDGEYWCA MALDEN CENTER FOR WOMEN: $10,000 · OtherYWCA MALDEN CENTER FOR WOMENCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE: $7,500 · OtherCAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCECATHOLIC CHARITIES AT LABOURE CENTER: $6,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES AT LABOURE CENTERIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMAURA WILKINS FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherMAURA WILKINS FOUNDATIONINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOCIAL …MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesMARIA DROSTE COUNS…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston…ROUND TABLE INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentROUND TABLE INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CL…MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $15,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $7,170 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 · HealthGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$90,500Human Services$32,500Youth Development$29,500Education$15,000Housing & Shelter$13,170Health$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROUND TABLE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC: $14,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetVICTORY PROGRAMS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $7,170 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 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.

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…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Agnes M Lindsay TrustBushrod H Campbell & …Rockland Trust Charit…Rockland Trust - East…Cambridge Savings Cha…United Way Of Massach…Arbella Insurance Fou…American Tower Corpor…The Pfizer Foundation…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA23.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report 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.
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How do I get to Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc?

Find your warmest path to Greater Boston Council on Alcoholism Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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