· Public charity
Life Science Cares Inc
Life science cares activates the financial and human capital of the life sciences industry and partners with nonprofits to disrupt the cycle of poverty and inequality in our communities.
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k44 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+2 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO | $424,600 |
| SAN DIEGO SQUARED | $275,000 |
| JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH | $200,000 |
| BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT (HORIZONS) CO EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATI | $150,000 |
| FAMILY AID BOSTON | $127,000 |
| YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN | $125,000 |
| VICTORY PROGRAMS INC | $125,000 |
| KIDS IN TECH | $125,000 |
| MAMA'S KITCHEN | $120,000 |
| GLIDE FOUNDATION | $115,000 |
| ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY | $112,500 |
| JEREMIAH PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| THE MONARCH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
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, $4.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
121 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2024, 55 since wound down; 24 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $705k 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
- AAALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR5× · 2020–2024 · $668k · revenue ×88 · 51% of their budget
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +73%
- FFFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC7× · 2017–2023 · $574k · revenue +204%
Funded once
- NCNEIGHBORHEALTH CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $190k · revenue +20%
- BCBAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $125k · revenue +25%
- FPFRANCIS PARKER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +13%
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.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
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Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To deliver innovative leadership development programs and creative solutions that identify, accelerate, and elevate underrepresented talent throughout their careers.
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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.
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To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alas Ayudando Latinos a Sonar. 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 29 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
172 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 172 of the 176 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 ALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds GLIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BARRIO LOGAN COLLEGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds San Diego Squared ↗
- Who funds THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN TECH INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VICTORY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds North Marin Community Services ↗
- Who funds CASPAR INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SERVING SENIORS ↗
- Who funds MANA DE SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS YOUTH ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MARCUS A FOSTER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Biotech Partners ↗
- Who funds TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BROAD STREET MINISTRY ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill
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 Life Science Cares Inc 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.
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Saheli Inc — 61% of income from government
- Senior Connections Inc — 52% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Children's Services of Roxbury Inc — 35% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Newbridge Services Inc — 24% of income from government
- Building Pathways Inc — 23% of income from government
- Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhealth Corporation — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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.