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Im Sister & Johnny Foundation at a glance

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Im Sister & Johnny Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$71k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Religion$282kHuman Services$35kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$21kHousing & Shelter$15kPublic Benefit$15kEducation$7kArts & Culture$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $36k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED PARISH OF BROOKLINE$35,000
EMMAUS INC$5,000
SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE$5,000
COMMUNITY ACTION INC$5,000
TEAM HAVERHILL INC$5,000
BROOKLINE ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CIRENAS INC$3,000
BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CTR$3,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 7%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 7%SUNSET HILL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC: $5k → 7%BROOKLINE- QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT: $5k → 7%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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$382k · 11 repeat orgs$29k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

$382k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+43%

Still filing today

55%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureInternationalFood & NutritionOther
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

  • EMMAUS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +17%
  • Community Action Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • BC
    BROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER
    2× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • BC
    BROOKLINE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY MENTAL
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • PP
    POWERFUL PATIENT INC
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • BS
    BROOKLINE-QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +23%
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 Foundation
Philanthropy
2
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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3
Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…

Philanthropy
4
Brookline Cable Community Trust

Big is a community media arts center that provides community cable and online news and information channels for brookline, ma. big facilitates diverse community dialogue, incubates and funds hyperlocal storytelling, arts, journalism and…

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5
Brookline Education Foundation

The brookline education foundation is a nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving brookline's commitment to excellence in public education. the foundation raises private funds to support innovative teaching, administrative leadership,…

Education
6
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education
7
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
8
The Bookbuilders of Boston Educational Fund Inc
Education
9
The Brookline Library Foundation Inc

Support the restoration and renovation of the buildings in The Public Library System of Brookline, Massachusetts and to make funds available for library materials, services and programs.

Education
10
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
11
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
12
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc

The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of change in their communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brookline Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. 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

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNITED PARISH IN BROOKLINE: $177,000 · OtherUNITED PARISH IN BROOKLINEUNITED PARISH OF BROOKLINE: $105,000 · OtherUNITED PARISH OF BROOKLINE+7 more: $48,700 · Other+7 moreEMMAUS INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesEMMAUS IN…Sunset Hill Educational Institute Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesSunset Hi…BROOKLINE-QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesBROOKLINE…TEAM HAVERHILL INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Action Inc: $15,000 · Community ImprovementBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 · PhilanthropyRotary District 7910 Charity Fund Inc: $5,000 · EducationTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $500 · EducationWGBH Educational Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureCIRENAS INC: $3,000 · InternationalBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$330,700Human Services$35,000Community Improvement$30,000Philanthropy$11,000Education$5,500Arts & Culture$5,000International$3,000Food & Nutrition$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEMMAUS INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSunset Hill Educational Institute Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetTEAM HAVERHILL INC: $15,000 over 3y, 29% of budgetCommunity Action Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRotary District 7910 Charity Fund Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetBROOKLINE-QUEZALGUAQUE SISTER CITY PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC: $500 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.

Brookline Massachuset…Allen & Franka Charlu…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Brookline Massachusetts Rotary ClubMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brookline Massachusetts Rotary Club · Allen & Franka Charlupski Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Im Sister & Johnny Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Im Sister & Johnny Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Community Action Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

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 20 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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