· Public charity
Greater Boston Real Estate Board Foundation
Grants to charitable 501(c) organizations whose activities are conducted in the Greater Boston area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $108,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $12,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Bridge over Troubled Waters | $45,000 |
| Heading Home Inc | $15,000 |
| Rosie's Place | $15,000 |
| The Base | $13,500 |
| Breaktime | $10,000 |
| Family Aid Boston | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BOBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $374k · revenue +139%
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $265k · revenue +93%
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $117k · revenue +260%
Funded once
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INCone grant, 2023 · $103k · revenue -45%
- CRCHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +78%
- FHFISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +245%
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.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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…
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…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
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.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation for Business Equity Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
21 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.
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 BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Realtors Relief Foundation ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER ASSOCIATION FOR RETARDED CITIZENS INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COUNCIL FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC (METCO) ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds EVKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STEP INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BUSINESS EQUITY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVE FOR HUNGER 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable 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 Real Estate Board 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.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.