· Private foundation
Howard C Connor Charitable Foundation Eastern
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL SAINTS PARISH | $20,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $10,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $10,000 |
| CITIZENS INN INC | $10,000 |
| MORGAN MEMORIAL GOODWILL | $10,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES | $10,000 |
| ROGERSON COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN | $10,000 |
| SAMARITANS INC | $10,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $5,000 |
| Mount Pleasant Home | $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 (FY20–25, $160k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 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
- MVMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +70%
- MOMission of Deeds Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
SAMARITANS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BOBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -30%
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +74%
NORTHEAST ARC INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -60%
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.
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.
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…
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…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
It is the mission of work,inc. to ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.
To lead the assisted living industry in its service of seniors through advocacy, education, operational support, and enhanced growth opportunities.
To empower people and enrich their lives, through compassionate support and diverse services, one individual, one family at a time.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
The mission of the walnut street center is to provide adults, with developmental disabilities, with opportunities to live engaged and meaningful lives. the agency accomplishes this mission by offering a variety of support services that…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joslin Diabetes Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 21 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 THE WHITE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ST MARY'S IN THE MOUNTAINS ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PLEASANT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL 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 · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Yawkey Foundation II · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · American Tower Corporation 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 Howard C Connor Charitable Foundation Eastern 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Mount Pleasant Home Inc — 30% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn 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.