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James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC | $60,000 |
| UTEC INC | $60,000 |
| YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC | $60,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC | $60,000 |
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (FUTURE CHEFS) | $60,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $475k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +96% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 2 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
- YBYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +96%
- LFLEAP for Education Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $410k · revenue +198%
- UIUTEC Inc7× · 2019–2025 · $360k · revenue +112%
Funded once
- TMTHE MATCH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2018 · $35k · revenue -55%
- RFRodman For Kids Incone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -80%
RAW ART WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +41%
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.
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…
To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
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.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The goal and vision of teach western mass, inc. is to attract, hire, develop, and retain quality teachers for western massachuseets urban classrooms.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Training young adults from low income communities for high growth careers as software engineers, and connecting them with jobs.
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
Apprentice learning provides real-world work experiences for middle school students. we leverage career exploration to teach skills and to nuture dreams.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rodman for Kids Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MATCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees 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.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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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