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Marion L Decrow Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA VIDA INC | $10,000 |
| ADVOCATES | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR THE HOMELESS | $10,000 |
| FAMILYAID BOSTON INC | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $6,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE BOSTON | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS APPLESEED CENTER | $5,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $5,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $87k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
21 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC2× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +16%
- CMCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC3× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +47%
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC3× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +82%
Funded once
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +125%- OAOPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +0%
BOSTON HARBOR NOW INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +149%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
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.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
To provide day and residential treatment programs for adults diagnosed with autism or behavioral disorders.
To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is North Bennet Street School. 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 44 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 28 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 ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA RAPE CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ATHLETES UNLIMITED NEWTON MA INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds INVERSANT INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds BARRY L PRICE REHABILITATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION ABLE OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN CULTURAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ACT LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTIVE LIVING 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Clinton H & Wilma T Shattuck Char Tr #0758945 · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual 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 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.
- Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc — 82% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.
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