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Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc

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.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
85
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$4.5MHealth$3.2MRecreation & Sports$2.8MArts & Culture$2.4MYouth Development$2.0MEnvironment$1.8MAnimals$819kEmployment$781kOther$0
02FY2024 · 85 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k43 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k34 grants · $522k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $600k
  • $250k+2 grants · $650k
$8,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$88M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
City Year$400,000
The Base$250,000
Year Up$200,000
Museum Of Fine Arts$100,000
Boston Children's Museum$100,000
Plymouth Rotary Foundation$75,000
Alexander Twilight Academy$75,000
Initiative For a Competitive Inner City$50,000
Boston Symphony Orchestra$30,000
Plymouth Congregational Church$27,250
Friends Of Miami Animals Foundation$25,000
Courageous Parents Network$25,000
The American Independent Foundation$25,000
Squam Lakes Natural Science Center$25,000
Squam Lakes Conservation Society$25,000
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 (FY17–24, $719k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Family Independence Initiative: $5k → 10%HealthNetwork Foundation: $10k → 17%Family Independence Initiative: $5k → 10%National Diaper Bank Network: $5k → 12%HealthNetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Family Independence Initiative: $5k → 10%Matriculate: $10k → 17%HealthNetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Family Independence Initiative: $5k → 10%Florida Keys Children's Shelter: $5k → 13%HealthNetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Youth Villages: $10k → 8%Youth Villages: $10k → 8%Youth Villages: $8k → 8%YMCA Of Greater Boston: $15k → 16%Keys Children's Foundation: $15k → 13%Bridge House: $27k → 10%Keys Children's Foundation: $10k → 13%Keys Children's Foundation: $10k → 13%Keys Children's Foundation: $8k → 13%Bridge House: $25k → 10%United South End Settlements: $60k → 16%United South End Settlements: $60k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $40k → 16%Keys Children's Foundation: $5k → 13%Keys Children's Foundation: $5k → 13%Families First: $10k → 8%Families First: $10k → 8%Bridge House: $13k → 10%Families First: $10k → 8%CADY: $10k → 10%Families First: $8k → 8%Bridge House: $10k → 10%Families First: $8k → 8%Bridge House: $10k → 10%Pine Street Inn: $15k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $15k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $13k → 16%United South End Settlements: $13k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $10k → 16%Community Servings: $40k → 16%Community Servings: $30k → 16%Community Servings: $30k → 16%Community Servings: $15k → 16%CADY: $10k → 10%Room To Grow: $13k → 16%Room To Grow: $13k → 16%Room To Grow: $13k → 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

VT
NH
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CA
UT
NE
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
LA
AL
GA
FL

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 177 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +48% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

177 repeat relationships — 67 still active in FY2024, 110 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

177
93

Total granted

$22M
$798k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthAnimalsOther

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

  • Northwestern University
    5× · 2017–2021 · $2.7M · revenue +41%
  • CITY YEAR INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +15%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $1.1M · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WREXHAM FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +113%
  • SF
    Society For The Protection Of NH Forests
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -100%

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
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
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
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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7
Eastern National

Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.

Recreation & Sports
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
11
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
12
Boston Society of Architects

The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Botanical Center. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …United Way AffiliatesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesYouth Mentoring ProgramsDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Affordable Housing Developm…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 SchoolsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsDance Arts OrganizationsElementary Literacy TutoringOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr19%28%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%24%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%44%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/211
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,147

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.

04the grantee network

204 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. 204 of the 292 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
203/204
Grantees still filing
148/204
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Upstream — $2,061,000 · OtherUpstreamMassachusetts General Hospital — $2,030,713 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitalCITY YEAR INC — $1,782,174 · OtherCITY YEAR INCYALE UNIVERSITY — $509,262 · Other+102 more — $5,046,715 · Other+102 moreNorthwestern University — $2,715,936 · Recreation & SportsNorthwestern Un…THE BASEBALL INC — $325,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE BASEBALL IN…TENACITY INC — $150,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more — $29,000 · Recreation & SportsYEAR UP INC — $700,000 · EducationYEAR UP INCEDVESTORS INC — $500,000 · EducationEDVESTORS I…UASPIRE INC — $160,754 · EducationUASPIRE INCTeach for America Inc — $156,656 · EducationTeach for A…ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC — $150,000 · EducationALEXANDER T…BEACON ACADEMY INC — $90,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC — $75,000 · Education+13 more — $411,250 · Education+13 moreTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $751,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDR…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $380,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …MORY'S PRESERVATION INC — $198,879 · Arts & CultureMORY'S PRE…NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $130,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSH…WGBH Educational Foundation — $125,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educa…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureNEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL — $98,000 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $358,683 · Arts & Culture+13 moreSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER — $533,500 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $170,500 · EnvironmentNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $130,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $92,500 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION — $84,000 · EnvironmentLoon Preservation Committee — $81,500 · EnvironmentPLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club — $75,000 · EnvironmentTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $67,500 · Environment+14 more — $396,961 · EnvironmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $1,144,497 · Youth DevelopmentPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $227,483 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $55,000 · Youth Development+6 more — $137,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $132,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $92,500 · Human ServicesThe Bridge House Inc — $87,000 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC — $55,000 · Human ServicesKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $52,500 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $37,500 · Human ServicesYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $27,500 · Human ServicesHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human Services+7 more — $98,000 · Human Services
Other$11,429,864Recreation & Sports$3,219,936Education$2,243,660Arts & Culture$2,141,562Environment$1,706,461Youth Development$1,563,980Human Services$722,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorthwestern University — $2,715,936 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $1,782,174 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $1,144,497 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM — $751,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $700,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER — $533,500 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetEDVESTORS INC — $500,000 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $380,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC — $334,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC — $325,000 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $300,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC — $227,483 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMORY'S PRESERVATION INC — $198,879 over 3y, 11% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $190,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetINITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC — $180,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetGRANITE UNITED WAY — $177,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $170,500 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $160,754 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $156,656 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTENACITY INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC — $150,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $132,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC — $130,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC — $130,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $122,157 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetORCAT INC — $121,250 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC — $115,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $105,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WREXHAM FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAMPSHIRE MUSIC FESTIVAL — $98,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $92,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC — $92,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC — $90,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetThe Bridge House Inc — $87,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION — $84,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetLoon Preservation Committee — $81,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPLYMOUTH ROTARY FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $75,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND — $72,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MONTANA LAND RELIANCE — $67,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $65,000 over 3y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Northwestern University ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds GREENLIGHT FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MORY'S PRESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE FOR A COMPETITIVE INNER CITY INC ↗
  • Who funds GRANITE UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE LAKES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ORCAT INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WREXHAM FOUNDATION 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.

Boston Foundation IncNew Hampshire Charita…Tosa FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Cocchiaro Family Foun…Combined Jewish Phila…Liberty Mutual Founda…The Orchard FoundationThe Schifrin Foundati…Highland Street Conne…Fidelity FoundationCummings Foundation G…
Boston Foundation IncMA53.3× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Tosa Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cocchiaro Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Orchard Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston 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 Lovett-Woodsum Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 510%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
  • Kristi House Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
  • College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Florida Keys Childrens Shelter Inc — 19% of income from government
  • South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Design Museum Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
  • Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Chelsea Black Community — 3% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Guitars Over Guns Organization Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Montgomery Botanical Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
51get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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Find your warmest path to Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc 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 292 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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