· Public charity
Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc
To honor the memory of martin w.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $462,361 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $649,606 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $187,245 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $296k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM MCLEAN | $100,000 |
| LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $43,151 |
| YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES | $30,000 |
| RODMAN RIDE FOR KIDS INC | $26,500 |
| BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR | $25,000 |
| DORCHESTER EDUCATION ENRICHMENT PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| JFK LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ZOO NEW ENGLAND | $17,500 |
| GREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREETS | $13,000 |
| THE FISHING ACADEMY | $10,560 |
| MEB FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL BOSTON | $10,000 |
| TRIANGLE INC-EPIC | $10,000 |
| HOPE AND COMFORT INC | $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 (FY17–24, $386k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% 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 +31% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- MPMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +174% · 43% of their budget
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +355%- LDLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +335%
Funded once
- HHHEADING HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $93k · revenue +179%
- BSBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -2%
- TFTHE FOOTLIGHT CLUBone grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -3%
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.
Youth Development
City kids' mission is to spark intellectual curiosity in the children of boston and beyond by providing them with unique experiences and valuable educational resources. we seek to leverage new technologies to provide kids with powerful…
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…
Evkids creates a community of support through school-year tutoring, college success support, and summer camp that provides underserved boston students grades 3 through college with one-on-one mentoring, supported by professional school…
The mission of the foundation is to support boston center for youth and families in its work to enhance the quality of life for boston residents by partnering with community center councils, agencies, and businesses to support the…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
The organization's mission is youth development and life-skill development activities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Trayvon Martin Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 52 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 FRIENDS OF MARTIN'S PARK INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds Bridgewater State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DEEP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Triangle Christian Services Inc ↗
- Who funds JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INC ↗
- Who funds Storytime Crafts Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Piers Park Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds The Fishing Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTLIGHT CLUB ↗
- Who funds CASA NUEVA VIDA ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL T ↗
- Who funds MARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Broadway Experience ↗
- Who funds SAILING HEALS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · GivenGain Foundation USA · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · State Street Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater 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 Martin W Richard Charitable 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.
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Fishing Academy Inc — 14% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bridgewater State University Foundation — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation 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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