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Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0187% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2024.

Arts & Culture$3.0MEducation$1.3MHuman Services$620kHousing & Shelter$395kYouth Development$240kHealth$206kEmployment$175kCrime & Legal$95kCivil Rights$75kOther$1.2M
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $738k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $175k
  • $250k+1 grant · $550k
$15,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$550,000
SKIDMORE COLLEGE$175,000
THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC$40,000
STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$40,000
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES$35,000
FOUND IN TRANSLATION$30,000
MERYL'S SAFE HAVEN INC$30,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON$25,000
BILL OF RIGHTS INSTITUTE$25,000
RIA HOUSE INC$25,000
PRIMARY SOURCE$20,570
BOSTON CASA$20,000
DISCOVERING JUSTICE$20,000
THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER$20,000
CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%EMERGE INC: $10k → 6%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%EMERGE INC: $10k → 6%ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES: $20k → 11%EMERGE INC: $10k → 6%EMERGE INC: $10k → 6%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%LOVE LIFE NOW FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%POTENCIA INC: $15k → 8%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $20k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA INC: $20k → 16%ENROOT: $20k → 8%CAMBRIDGE ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COMMITTEE INC: $20k → 8%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC: $15k → 16%ENROOT: $20k → 8%ROUTE ONE MINISTRY: $10k → 16%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 10%CHELSEA COLLABORATIVE INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY ART CENTER: $5k → 8%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $15k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $10k → 16%CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $10k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $25k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $20k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $15k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $15k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $40k → 16%STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE: $20k → 16%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER: $20k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $15k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
DC
TX

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 45% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 49% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.5M · 55 repeat orgs$666k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
29

Total granted

$6.5M
$488k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+23%

Still filing today

82%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $178k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterHealthOther

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

  • WT
    WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +98%
  • SC
    SKIDMORE COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $875k · revenue +19%
  • TN
    THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND MARRIMACK VALLEY
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • IS
    INTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +45%
  • United Help Ukraine Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue -81%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
7
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
8
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
11
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
12
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Generation Citizen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Route One Ministry. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%25%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr14%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr14%64%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%3/87
the rest of the field
11%
3,394/30,068

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.

05the grantee network

86 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. 86 of the 100 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/86
Grantees still filing
66/86
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,625,000 · Arts & CultureWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS+12 more — $362,700 · Arts & Culture+12 moreSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $875,000 · EducationSKIDMORE COLLEGEFound in Translation Inc — $100,000 · EducationFound in Translation…READ TO A CHILD INC — $70,000 · EducationICIVICS INC — $70,000 · EducationINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 · Education+9 more — $132,100 · Education+9 moreBill of Rights Institute — $120,000 · OtherBill of Rights Institut…PRIMARY SOURCE INC — $90,070 · OtherPRIMARY SOURCE INCPROJECT CITIZEN — $70,000 · OtherMY LIFE MY CHOICE A PROGRAM OF JUSTICE RESOURCE — $65,000 · OtherTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $56,000 · OtherUNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY AND MARRIMACK VALLEY — $50,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $175,000 · OtherJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVI…JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $55,000 · OtherLA VIDA INC — $50,000 · Other+31 more — $766,100 · Other+31 moreFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $90,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS O…LA COLABORATIVA INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesLA COLABO…CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRN…ASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA…STUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT C…FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SE…EMERGE INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesEMERGE IN…ENROOT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesENROOT IN…United Help Ukraine Inc — $25,000 · Human Services+8 more — $120,000 · Human Services+8 moreTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $200,000 · Housing & ShelterRIA Inc — $125,000 · Housing & ShelterJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterMERYLS SAFE HAVEN INC — $30,000 · Housing & ShelterGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentMAINE BOYS TO MEN — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentWORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC — $100,000 · HealthBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $45,000 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,500 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 · Health
Arts & Culture$2,987,700Education$1,347,100Other$1,497,170Human Services$620,000Housing & Shelter$395,000Youth Development$240,000Health$205,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWOLF TRAP FOUNDATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS — $2,625,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetSKIDMORE COLLEGE — $875,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC — $200,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC — $175,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRIA Inc — $125,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetBill of Rights Institute — $120,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFound in Translation Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $95,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPRIMARY SOURCE INC — $90,070 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $90,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetZUMIX INC — $79,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $70,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetICIVICS INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC — $65,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMUSICONNECTS INC — $65,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC — $60,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetASCENTRIA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $60,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetSHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC — $57,500 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetTHE SPORTSMEN'S TENNIS & ENRICHMENT CENTER INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $55,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetLA VIDA INC — $50,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetINTERCOLLEGIATE STUDIES INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetEMERGE INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENROOT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON CASA INC — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetJEREMIAH PROGRAM — $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MUSIC PROJECT INC — $35,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetLEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF MASSACHUSETTS — $35,000 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMERYLS SAFE HAVEN INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGIRLSTART — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetELEVATED THOUGHT INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLOWER CAPE COMMUNITY ACCESS TELEVISION INC — $27,700 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetBERKS COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Help Ukraine Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Bushrod H Campbell & …Adelard & Valeda Roy …Rockland Trust Charit…Cambridge Savings Cha…Combined Jewish Phila…William E Schrafft an…Rockland Trust - East…
Boston Foundation IncMA66.7× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank 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 Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Victim Rights Law Center Inc — 89% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
  • Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% of income from government
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
  • Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Guerilla Opera Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Welcome Project Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
  • The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
  • All Newton Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176?

Find your warmest path to Lincoln & Therese Filene Foundation Inc #0706176 through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 100 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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