· Private foundation
Imagine Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cardinal Cushing Centers | $25,000 |
| New England Village | $13,650 |
| Oceans Forward | $11,500 |
| Friendship Home | $10,000 |
| Wellspring MULTI SERVICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Pete Frates Foundation | $4,000 |
| Second Chance Animal Services | $3,500 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH EVERGREEN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| MY BROTHER'S KEEPER | $2,000 |
| St John Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Centre Street Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Weymouth Food Pantry | $1,000 |
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 US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($692k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($80k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($80k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +69% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $147k · revenue +40%- WIWELLSPRING INC6× · 2017–2022 · $85k · revenue +68%
- FHFRIENDSHIP HOME INC6× · 2017–2022 · $82k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DEDIANE EDSON FUNDone grant, 2024 · $10k
- W3Wellspring 3rd installment of 5 yr pledgeone grant, 2023 · $10k
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.
Brockton area arc inc will work in partnership with and for the community to provide advocacy, information and direct services that offer new opportunities and choice for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…
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…
North suffolk community services supports individuals and families across the lifespan in their pursuit of independence and stability by providing a comprehensive array of treatment and recovery services. our approach is to intervene as…
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.
Our mission is to make emotional well-being essential to overall health and building a supportive community for all, through effective, integrated care that is tailored to the way those we serve live. Aspire Health Alliance is helping to…
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
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…
To link with communities to create conditions for inclusion and social change. the organization matches people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with caregivers who support people to remain with their family or live in a…
Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is One Life At a Time 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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 106 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 CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS VOICE INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANS FORWARD ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ONE LIFE AT A TIME INC ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PROGERIA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Peer Recovery 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 · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Pilgrim Bank Foundation · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · James & Beatrice Salah Charitable Trust Dtd 08-09-2001 · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston 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 Imagine Inc 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.
- Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
- Triangle Inc — 90% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Talking Information Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- South Shore Peer Recovery Inc — 71% of income from government
- New England Village Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- One Life at a Time Inc — 66% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Safe Coalition Incorported — 6% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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