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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 FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Human Services$63kEducation$51kHealth$43kHousing & Shelter$4kAnimals$3kFood & Nutrition$1kInternational$1kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$250
Median grant
4
States reached
$470k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
My Brother's Keeper$11,700
Northeastern University$9,600
Massachusetts General Hospital$7,600
Alzheimer's Association$250
K-9 Kitt Foundation$250
Greater Boston Food Bank$250
Pine Street Inn$250
Animal Rescue League$250
Boston Rescue Mission$250
Italian Home For Children$250
MSPCA$250
Toys for Tots$250
New England Veterans Shelter$250
St Jude$250
Dana FarberJimmy Fund$250
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.

area typical 7%My Brother's Keeper: $13k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $12k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $12k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $12k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $11k → 11%My Brother's Keeper: $2k → 11%Pine Street Inn: $250 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $200 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $200 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $200 → 16%Pine Street Inn: $200 → 16%St Francis House: $250 → 16%St Francis House: $200 → 16%St Francis House: $200 → 16%St Francis House: $200 → 16%St Francis House: $200 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $200 → 16%Home for Little Wanderers: $200 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$170k · 21 repeat orgs$400 to everyone else

21 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
2

Total granted

$170k
$400

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+35%

Still filing today

62%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationPhilanthropyAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MB
    My Brothers Keeper Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +63%
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +63%
  • MT
    MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue +3%
  • CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
5
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.

Human Services
6
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

8
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

10
Emerson Health System Inc

Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…

Health
11
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

12
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is K9 Kitt Foundation Inc. 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

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
12/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

My Brothers Keeper Inc — $61,300 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc+4 more — $2,700 · Human ServicesNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $51,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYMassachusetts General Hospital — $41,000 · OtherMassachusetts General Hospital+9 more — $8,150 · Other+9 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,050 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $1,050 · HealthITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC — $650 · HealthMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $1,050 · PhilanthropyMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $1,050 · AnimalsBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC — $1,050 · Housing & ShelterK9 Kitt Foundation Inc — $650 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$64,000Education$51,000Other$49,150Health$2,750Philanthropy$1,050Animals$1,050Housing & Shelter$1,050Crime & Legal$650

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your 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
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 My Brothers Keeper Inc
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC
  • Who funds K9 Kitt Foundation Inc
  • Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization John P Battista Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 22%
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc38% of income from government
  • Italian Home for Children Inc29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc18% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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