· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| My Brother's Keeper | $11,700 |
| Northeastern University | $9,600 |
| Massachusetts General Hospital | $7,600 |
| New England Veterans Shelter | $250 |
| Project Hope | $250 |
| St Jude | $250 |
| Dana FarberJimmy Fund | $250 |
| Animal Rescue League | $250 |
| St Francis House | $250 |
| Boston Rescue Mission | $250 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $250 |
| Scituate Animal Shelter | $250 |
| Italian Home For Children | $250 |
| MSPCA | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
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 (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 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.
21 repeat relationships: 19 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
- MBMy Brothers Keeper Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +63%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $51k · revenue +63%- MTMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $1k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $200 · revenue +3%
CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $200 · revenue +35%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
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.…
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.
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 23 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 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 ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John P Battista Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John P Battista Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc: 29% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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