· Private foundation
It Kicks Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC | $427,500 |
| NORTHEAST ARC | $50,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE INC | $25,800 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS | $20,000 |
| ELEVATED THOUGHTS INC | $20,000 |
| LOVELANE SPEC NEEDS HORSEBACK RIDING | $15,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA (ANDELADE) | $10,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NE CENTER FOR HOME FOR VETERANS | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–23, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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.
Our mission is to work to achieve social and economic justice by empowering low to moderate income populations in lawrence, ma through shared values of inclusiveness and collaboration to reclaim a voice for lawrence and advocate…
Education on homelessness and support to the homeless and work with other organizations united in the same mission.
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…
Assist people with disabilities
Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
To provide services for disadvantaged youth
Newvue affordable housing corporation is a nonprofit organization that develops and provides affordable housing to low and moderate income households in north central massachusetts.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Crossroads serves over 1,000 youth (gr. 2-12) from low-income communities in greater boston and brockton. year-round programming provides opportunities for outdoor experiential learning, social-emotional skill development, college and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Harvey Girls Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 19 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 ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION FOR THE HUMANITIES & PUBLIC POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AARONS PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds HARVEY GIRLS 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 It Kicks Foundation 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc — 45% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Harvey Girls Inc — 13% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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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