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John W Boynton Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$200k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
15
Organizations funded FY2024
27%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
7 to 16
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$3.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 27% of the organizations John W Boynton Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 34% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentReligionOther
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 arriving18$200k17%
FY202415$188k27%
FY202316$170k19%
FY202215$185k47%
FY202113$145k46%
FY202012$170k25%
FY201911$165k64%
FY20187$85k71%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$585kPhilanthropy$205kFood & Nutrition$160kHousing & Shelter$100kCrime & Legal$98kCivil Rights$87kHealth$83kYouth Development$50kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($504k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

John W Boynton Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMerrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Quabbin Citizen Advocacy Inc: $77,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetSoutheast Asian Coalition of Central Ma: $75,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetLifepath Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFriendshipworks Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMetrowest Legal Services Inc: $49,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetLa Alianza Hispana Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMystic Valley Aging Services Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin County Community Meals Program Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetAdvocates Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLittle Brothers Friends of the Elderly - Boston Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetThe Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc (Esac): $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetNewvue Communities Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget2life Communities Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of 2life Communities Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAthol Memorial Hospital: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Farm School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOpen Table Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBethany Community Services Inc: $9,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInstitute for Environmental Awareness Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 42% 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 23.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA30.9× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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About John W Boynton Fund

How much does John W Boynton Fund give?
John W Boynton Fund reported 18 grants totaling $200,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does John W Boynton Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (39%), Philanthropy (14%), Food & Nutrition (11%).
Who are John W Boynton Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc ($90k), North Quabbin Citizen Advocacy Inc ($77k), Southeast Asian Coalition of Central Ma ($75k).
Does John W Boynton Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John W Boynton Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as John W Boynton Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Ttee Uw of Charles F Bacon.
Where is John W Boynton Fund based?
John W Boynton Fund is based in TX.

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 45 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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