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John P Battista Foundation

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.

$33k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
20
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$250
Largest grant, FY2025
$11,700
Organizations funded a year
2 to 20
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
4
Total assets, FY2025
$470k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations John P Battista Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$33k0%
FY202420$32k5%
FY202320$29k10%
FY202219$35k0%
FY202120$37k90%
FY20202$5kn/a
95% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Human Services$63kEducation$51kHealth$43kHousing & Shelter$4kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 15 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($48k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John P Battista Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $61,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetNortheastern University: $51,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis House Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Rescue Mission Inc: $1,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetK9 Kitt Foundation Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetItalian Home for Children Inc: $650 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCardinal Cushing Centers Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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How do I get to John P Battista Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John P Battista 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.

About John P Battista Foundation

How much does John P Battista Foundation give?
John P Battista Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $32,900 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 20 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does John P Battista Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (37%), Education (30%), Health (25%).
Who are John P Battista Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: My Brothers Keeper Inc ($61k), Northeastern University ($51k), Marine Toys for Tots Foundation ($1k).
Does John P Battista Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John P Battista Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where is John P Battista Foundation based?
John P Battista Foundation is based in MA.

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 23 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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