· Private foundation
Kuehn Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $36k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $210k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $500,000 |
| HOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSITANCE CORPORATION | $60,000 |
| CHAPA | $50,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $25,000 |
| MACDC-MEL KING INSTITUTE | $11,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $2,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $656k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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 +92% since the first grant, against +77% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- IHISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION7× · 2018–2024 · $925k · revenue +283%
PINE STREET INN INC4× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +90%
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND2× · 2022–2023 · $155k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- MHMASS HOUSING PARTNERSHIP FUND BOARDone grant, 2017 · $165k
- CHCITIZEN HOUSING PLANNING ASSOCIATESone grant, 2017 · $50k
- FPFORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +123%
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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.
Provide an environment that positions the realtor as the primary source for real estate services, promotes a positive professional image of the realtor, and advocates preservation and enhancement of the rights to own, use and transfer real…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Heading Home Inc and the most unlike its peers is Historic Boston Incorporated. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 56 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 ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds HOUSING NAVIGATOR MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC BOSTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds PRESERVATION MASS ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING INVESTMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION ASSET FUND ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds HIAS 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 · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Td Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Kuehn Charitable 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.