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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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
410
Grants FY2024still arriving
14
States reached
$100k
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, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$29MEducation$5.6MYouth Development$3.8MArts & Culture$3.8MHealth$2.0MHuman Services$1.9MHousing & Shelter$1.4MEnvironment$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 410 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k248 grants · $704k
  • $10k–50k143 grants · $2.4M
  • $50k–250k19 grants · $1.3M
$5,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$60M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIVING DESERT$100,000
EISENHOWER HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$100,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW$100,000
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$100,000
CITY OF BOSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND CITY OF BOSTON$100,000
BPS FOUNDATION$100,000
PALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY$75,000
XAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL$60,000
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND$50,000
CROSSROADS$50,000
SQUASHBUSTERS$50,000
OLIVE CREST$50,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON$50,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOR KIDS ONLY AFTER SCHOOL: $15k → 16%MEDICAL DEBT RESOLUTION: $15k → 13%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $40k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $35k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $32k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $20k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $15k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $50k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $50k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $40k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $25k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $25k → 7%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $100k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $35k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $15k → 16%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $55k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $33k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $33k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $25k → 11%MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN: $15k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $25k → 16%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE: $25k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $20k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $25k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $100k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $43k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $28k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $28k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $20k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING AND SHELTER ALLIANCE: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $25k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $35k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $20k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON: $16k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $145k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $20k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
DE
AR
TN
DC
TX
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$52M · 354 repeat orgs$3.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +48% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

354
180

Total granted

$52M
$2.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+37%

Still filing today

79%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $572k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $968k · revenue +197%
  • EM
    Eisenhower Medical Center
    6× · 2019–2024 · $705k · revenue +70%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    6× · 2019–2024 · $615k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • CH
    CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $250k
  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -100%
  • UO
    UNIV OF PA SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING & APPLIED SCIENCE
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
5
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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6
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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9
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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10
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
11
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
12
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

452 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
126
Early backer (in before they grew)
440/452
Grantees still filing
339/452
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

C MCGRATH DONOR ADVISED FUND: $28,662,400 · OtherC MCGRATH DONOR ADVISED FUND+101 more: $10,135,868 · Other+101 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $615,000 · EducationBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $343,575 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $324,625 · EducationENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $300,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $201,250 · EducationTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $195,000 · EducationALVERNO COLLEGE: $175,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $175,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC: $165,405 · EducationMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $162,000 · EducationLET'S GET READY INC: $150,000 · Education+19 more: $1,167,400 · EducationCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $967,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $667,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $450,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $241,001 · Youth Development+7 more: $305,400 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $331,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $204,500 · Arts & CulturePALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $203,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $175,500 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $86,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $81,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $588,500 · Arts & CultureYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $366,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $180,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $168,000 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $167,500 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $150,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $111,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $102,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $96,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABORATIVA INC: $65,000 · Human Services+4 more: $196,500 · Human ServicesEisenhower Medical Center: $705,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $152,500 · HealthOLIVE CREST: $115,000 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $100,000 · HealthGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $85,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $55,000 · Health+3 more: $78,500 · HealthXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $325,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $250,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc: $142,000 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $106,000 · PhilanthropyGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $62,750 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $53,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyBUILD HEALTH INTERNATIONAL INC: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Other$38,798,268Education$3,974,255Youth Development$2,631,401Arts & Culture$2,130,000Human Services$1,892,000Health$1,291,000Philanthropy$1,104,250

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $967,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $705,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $667,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $615,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $536,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $455,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $450,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $366,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC: $343,575 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $338,450 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $331,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetXAVIER COLLEGE PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOL: $325,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $324,625 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING DESERT THE: $319,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $300,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Salk Institute for Biological Studies: $300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $278,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $250,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $241,001 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetPALM SPRINGS INTERNATIONAL FILM SOCIETY: $227,000 over 6y, 9.3% of budgetBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC: $216,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $215,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $204,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPALM SPRINGS ART MUSEUM: $203,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $201,250 over 6y, 4.4% of budgetTHE SISTERS OF SAINT ANN INC: $195,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $175,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $175,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALVERNO COLLEGE: $175,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC: $175,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $168,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC: $167,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $165,405 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $162,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $152,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $150,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC: $145,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $142,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $121,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS NONPROFIT NETWORK: $120,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED: $120,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC: $120,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetOLIVE CREST: $115,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

  • 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 ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds The Salk Institute for Biological Studies ↗
  • 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 COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds ALVERNO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VILLAGE AND KITCHEN INC ↗

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust Charit…Yawkey Foundation IIUnited Way Of Massach…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The New England Patri…The Hamilton Company …The Cabot Family Char…Cambridge Savings Cha…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA118× affinity84 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) · 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

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 Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 390%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
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39get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
9rely 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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Find your warmest path to Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries 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 601 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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