· Private foundation
Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 69% of HIGHLAND STREET CONNECTION AND SUBSIDIARIES’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k248 grants · $704k
- $10k–50k143 grants · $2.4M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIVING DESERT | $100,000 |
| BPS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $100,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $100,000 |
| CITY OF BOSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND CITY OF BOSTON | $100,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON | $100,000 |
| EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY | $75,000 |
| XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL | $60,000 |
| CROSSROADS | $50,000 |
| OLIVE CREST | $50,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $50,000 |
| MENTOR THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $50,000 |
| SQUASHBUSTERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +47% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
354 repeat relationships — 237 still active in FY2024, 117 since wound down; 62 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k 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
- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC6× · 2019–2024 · $968k · revenue +197%
- EMEisenhower Medical Center6× · 2019–2024 · $705k · revenue +70%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE6× · 2019–2024 · $615k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
- CHCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $250k
- MCMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +117%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
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…
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…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Build Health International Inc. 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.
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 34 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
452 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. 452 of the 601 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Eisenhower Medical Center ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVING DESERT THE ↗
- Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds PALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Cambridge Savings 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 Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries 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.
- Brighton Marine Inc — 87% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- Edward M Kennedy Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Children's Discovery Museum of Cape Cod Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Amelia Park Childrens Museum Inc — 7% of income from government
- Community Legal Aid Inc — 5% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Spontaneous Celebrations Inc — 5% of income from government
- Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mass Design Art & Technology Institute Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Sisters of Saint Ann Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hancock Shaker Village Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Norman Rockwell Museum at Stockbridge Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Philharmonic Orchestra Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Worcester Art Museum — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Children's Museum of Greater Fall River Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hollydell Inc — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Museum in Easton Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Massachusetts Nonprofit Network — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Freedom Trail Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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