How much did MARION L DECROW FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Human Services$87kHealth$56kHousing & Shelter$35kReligion$15kRecreation & Sports$13kAnimals$13kCrime & Legal$12kYouth Development$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$146k

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

cambridgestreet

2022

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2023

cambridge

2024

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2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k5 grants · $26k
$10k–50k4 grants · $40k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$10,000
HORIZONS FOR THE HOMELESS$10,000
ADVOCATES$10,000
LA VIDA INC$10,000
PINE STREET INN$6,000
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER$5,000
MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER$5,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS$5,000
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON$5,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$341k · 20 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$341k

$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%

+165%

Still filing today

70%

78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

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ROSIE'S PLACE INC
2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +71%
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CASA MYRNA VASQUEZ INC
3× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +94%
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ADVOCATES INC
3× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +66%

Funded once

BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +151%
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NEWTON ATHLETES UNLIMITED
one grant, 2024 · $8k
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ATHLETES UNLIMITED NEWTON MA INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +56%

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.

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services

Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to community.

Arts & Culture

Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts Children's Alliance (MACA) pioneers innovative approaches to support child abuse victims. We advance effective interventions, deliver impactful educational programs and advocate for informed legislative support.

Human Services

Boston Center for Independent Living

Bcil provides services to people with disabilities to enable them to live independently.

Human Services

Massachusetts Affordable Housing

Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter

Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment

Casa Esperanza Inc

Casa esperanza, inc. is a bilingual and bicultural behavioral health center that specializes in serving the latino community in massachusetts. their mission is to empower individuals and families to recover from addiction, trauma, mental…

Health

Riverside Community Care Inc

We make a difference through innovative & compassionate behavioral healthcare & human services.

Health

Boston Preservation Alliance Inc

Advocacy for the preservation of the uniquely built environment of boston, massachusetts.

Education

The Boston Children's School Inc

To provide early education for pre-school children thru the early grades up to k-2. admittance is open to all children.

Education

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Advocates Inc. 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 42 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) — 0% 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 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/22

the rest of the field

1,541/17,253

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

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

21/22

Grantees still filing

20/22

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$177,000Human Services$87,000Health$56,000Housing & Shelter$35,000Religion$15,000Recreation & Sports$13,000Animals$12,500

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.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA30.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Adelard and Valeda Roy Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall · Eastern Cambridge Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Highland Street Connection · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 organisation MARION L DECROW 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.

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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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ATHLETES UNLIMITED NEWTON MA INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~38 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +56% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 223075808 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ATHLETES UNLIMITED NEWTON MA INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 38 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Marion L Decrow Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Marion L Decrow Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MARION L DECROW FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Marion L Decrow Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MARION L DECROW FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

22 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Marion L Decrow Foundation?

More from the funding graph