· Private foundation
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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC (FUTURE CHEFS) | $60,000 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC | $60,000 |
| COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC | $60,000 |
| UTEC INC | $60,000 |
| YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC | $60,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +87% since the first grant, against +41% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YBYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $425k · revenue +49%
- 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 -82%
RAW ART WORKS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +41%
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.
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.
How this is measured
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James C Melvin Trust Uw Brenda S Diana Et Al Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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