· Private foundation
John W Boynton Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| ADVOCATES INC | $10,000 |
| LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY | $10,000 |
| OPEN TABLE INC | $10,000 |
| LIFE PATH INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDSHIPWORKS | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $10,000 |
| NEWVUE COMMUNITIES INC | $10,000 |
| MOUNT PLEASANT HOME | $10,000 |
| 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC | $10,000 |
| HEARTH INC | $10,000 |
| MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| LA ALIANZA HISPANA | $10,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 Incgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $18k · revenue ×227
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.
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…
How this is measured
28 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. 28 of the 45 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 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 MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN COUNTY COMMUNITY MEALS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GRACE LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- 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 THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT PLEASANT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds VALUING OUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds The Farm School Inc ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John W Boynton Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John W Boynton Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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