· Private foundation
John W Boynton Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $182k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY NORTH CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA | $15,000 |
| NORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY | $12,000 |
| FRIENDSHIPWORKS | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES INC | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC | $10,000 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC | $10,000 |
| MOUNT PLEASANT HOME | $10,000 |
| LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY | $10,000 |
| LA ALIANZA HISPANA | $10,000 |
| OPEN TABLE INC | $10,000 |
| LIFE PATH INC | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $300k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +51%- NQNORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC7× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +14%
- LILIFEPATH INC7× · 2018–2025 · $75k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF N CENTRAL MASSone grant, 2019 · $25k
- HOHOMEOWNERS OPTIONS FOR MASSone grant, 2017 · $20k
- HHHeywood Healthcare Incone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue 0%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Westmass eldercare, inc. is an aging services access point and designated area agency on aging that provides services which include in-home support, informational services, nursing home advocacy, legal assistance, meal site transportation…
Aging services of north central massachusetts provides comprehensive information and quality services so that older people, individuals with disabilities, and their families are empowered to make personalized choices to ensure a life of…
To help seniors and individuals with disabilities live in the setting of their choice by engaging community resources and supporting caregivers.
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…
To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.
Old colony elder services ("oces") supports the independence and dignity of older adults and individuals with disabilities by providing essential information and services that promote healthy and safe living.
The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.
It is the mission of Eastern Area Agency on Aging to be the best source of information, options, and services for seniors, adults with disabilities, and caregivers.
The mission of north shorb elder services is to serve the functional needs of older adults residing on the north shore of massachusetts and provide support, information, and service to them and their families.
Low income elderly housing.
To sponsor, develop, offer and/or promote services and programs relating to the care, treatment and healing of humans, which services and programs are charitable, scientific, and/or educational and which address the physical and mental…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Environmental Awareness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 45 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF NORTH CENTRAL MASS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH QUABBIN CITIZEN ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MA ↗
- Who funds LIFEPATH INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC) ↗
- Who funds NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Heywood Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds Athol Memorial Hospital ↗
- Who funds VALUING OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
- Who funds OPEN TABLE INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ttee Uw of Charles F Bacon · Pierce Katharine C Uw · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Point32health Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Community Foundation of North Central Ma
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization John W Boynton Fund 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.
- Valuing Our Children Inc — 93% of income from government
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
- Newvue Communities Inc — 40% of income from government
- Mount Pleasant Home Inc — 30% of income from government
- Athol Memorial Hospital — 13% of income from government
- The Farm School Inc — 12% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bethany Community Services Inc — 0% of income from government
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.