· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Wellspring MULTI SERVICE CENTER | $10,000 |
| Friendship Home | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Plymouth Philharmonic Orchestra | $5,000 |
| Pete Frates Foundation | $4,000 |
| Second Chance Animal Services | $3,500 |
| MY BROTHER'S KEEPER | $2,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH EVERGREEN SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| Braintree Community Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Greater Fall River Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| St John Food Pantry | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
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.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Beyond the US: 10% of all-years giving ($80k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +29% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
45 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. 45 of the 106 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 NEW ENGLAND VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HOSPITAL 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Imagine Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imagine Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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