· Private foundation
Mabel a Horne Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $337k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT BREAD WALK FOR HUNGER | $15,000 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES | $15,000 |
| RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| HILLTOWN VILLAGE INC | $15,000 |
| HE IS ME INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS | $15,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC | $15,000 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO | $15,000 |
| MORE THAN WORDS INC | $15,000 |
| APPALACHIAN MOUNTAIN CLUB | $12,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC | $10,000 |
| ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS | $10,000 |
| CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE | $10,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS VETERANS | $10,000 |
| URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTON | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $421k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 83% 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 +59% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 9 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
MORE THAN WORDS INC6× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +87%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +101%
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC7× · 2017–2025 · $84k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -41%
CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -24%- AAASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +18%
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.
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…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Women's money matters, inc. empowers low-income women through financial literacy. the organization's comprehensive programming combines one-to-one coaching with a series of workshops that develop core money management skills and…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 83 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 MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WOMEN & ENTERPRISE INC ↗
- Who funds RAINBOW CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRISPUS ATTUCKS CHILDREN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds He Is Me Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Franklin Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE LITERACY LAB ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE RAFAEL HERNANDEZ SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
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 Mabel a Horne Fund 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.
- Arc Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Homework House Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Brockton Day Nursery Inc — 36% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Treehouse Foundation Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
- Helping Our Women Inc — 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc — 13% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Pioneer Valley Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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.