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John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Religion$2.9MEducation$2.8MHousing & Shelter$545kHuman Services$345kRecreation & Sports$225kCommunity Improvement$200kHealth$115kEnvironment$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $2.1M
  • $250k+8 grants · $2.2M
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$73M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
St John the Baptist Catholic Church$350,000
Cardinal Spellman High School$350,000
Saint Thomas the Apostle Parish$250,000
The Catholic Community Fund of the Archdiocese of Boston$250,000
Austin Preparatory School$250,000
Trustees of Boston College$250,000
Daughters of St Paul$250,000
Campaign for Catholic Schools$250,000
Montrose School$200,000
Catholic Center at Northeastern University$200,000
Saint Francis House Inc$200,000
South Shore Community Action Council$200,000
Oblates of the Virgin Mary$200,000
Saint Bridget School$200,000
My Brothers Keeper Inc$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $760k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%My Brothers Keeper Inc: $150k → 11%Nashua Center for the Multply Handicapped Inc: $5k → 7%My Brothers Keeper Inc: $150k → 11%My Brothers Keeper Inc: $20k → 11%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $5k → 16%Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: $5k → 16%Saint Francis House Inc: $200k → 16%Saint Francis House Inc: $200k → 16%Saint Francis House Inc: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
MN
NY
MA
RI
CA
CO
MS
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.8M · 19 repeat orgs$2.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
9

Total granted

$4.8M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+18%

Still filing today

42%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthCivil RightsReligionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $500k · revenue +12%
  • MF
    MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $440k · revenue +91%
  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
    3× · 2021–2025 · $425k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • FO
    FELLOWSHIP OF CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY STUDENTS
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
  • ST
    Saint Thomas Church
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • TH
    THE HERREN PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -15%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc

St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…

Unclassified
2
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Worcester

Catholic charities is dedicated to provide extensive social service programs to help people challenged by developmental disabilities, frail and vulnerable elders, families and children. the organization also provides services through…

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3
Semcoa Inc Dba Southeast Massachusetts Council On Advocacy

Semcoa's mission is to advocate for and provide support to individuals, families, and communities in the areas of substance use, mental illness, domestic violence, homelessness, and parenting.

Unclassified
4
Stonehill College Inc

Stonehill college, a catholic institution of higher learning founded and guided by the congregation of holy cross, is a community of scholarship and faith, committed to fostering a culture where differences are affirmed and anchored by a…

Education
5
Sisters Servants of Mary Ministers to the Sick Inc

To care for the physical and spiritual needs of the sick in their own homes at no charge.

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6
St Theresa Houseinc

To provide affordable housing to qualified persons. rental assistance is provided under sec. 8.

Housing & Shelter
7
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
8
Franciscan Sisters of Chicago Service Corporation

The mission of the franciscan sisters of chicago service corporation ("fscsc") is to celebrate life and serve with joy. (continued on schedule o).

Philanthropy
9
Elizabeth Seton Residence Inc

Our mission at elizabeth seton residence calls us to provide compassionate, caring service and to create an atmosphere where all feel welcome and respected. we are an 84-bed skilled nursing and rehabilitation facility, providing care to…

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10
Lutheran Housing Corporation - Brockton

We are called to strengthen communities by empowering people to respond to life's challenges.

Health
11
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc

The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…

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12
Sancta Maria Hospital Inc

Faithful to the spirit of the congregation of the daughters of mary, sancta maria nursing facility's mission is to witness christ's compassion, caring and love, reflecting the catholic church's role in the continuation of christ's healing…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc; the most unlike its peers is Servants of Christ Ministries. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
9/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC: $500,000 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCOblates of the Virgin Mary: $500,000 · OtherOblates of the Virgin MarySaint Bridget School: $415,000 · OtherSaint Bridget SchoolCatholic Center at Northeastern University: $400,000 · OtherCatholic Center at Northeastern UniversityCARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL INC: $350,000 · OtherCARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL INCSt John the Baptist Catholic Church: $350,000 · OtherSt John the Baptist Catholic ChurchHOLY ROSARY SHRINE: $346,230 · OtherHOLY ROSARY SHRINESERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES: $267,500 · OtherSERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIESDaughters of St Paul: $250,000 · OtherSAINT THOMAS THE APOSTLE PARISH: $250,000 · OtherAustin Preparatory School: $250,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village Camp: $225,000 · Other+19 more: $740,000 · Other+19 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $500,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOS…MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC: $440,000 · EducationMONTROSE FOUNDA…ST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $75,000 · EducationST BENEDICT CLA…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $425,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANC…My Brothers Keeper Inc: $320,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers…+2 more: $15,000 · Human ServicesTHE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $250,000 · ReligionSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $200,000 · Community ImprovementFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC: $120,000 · Civil RightsTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE HERREN PROJECT: $10,000 · Health
Other$4,843,730Education$1,015,000Human Services$760,000Religion$250,000Community Improvement$200,000Civil Rights$120,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Health$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTROSE FOUNDATION INC: $440,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $425,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $320,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES: $267,500 over 4y, 32% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC: $120,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetSIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOCIATES INC: $100,000 over 4y, 55% of budgetST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HERREN PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MONTROSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds SERVANTS OF CHRIST MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FUND OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC ↗
  • Who funds SIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOCIATES INC ↗
  • Who funds ST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM 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.

The Flatley FoundationMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Three Sisters Garden Project Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to John A McNeice Jr Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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