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Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc

To honor the memory of martin w.

$650k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$3.1MRecreation & Sports$2.0MEducation$567kArts & Culture$322kHuman Services$225kHousing & Shelter$157kHealth$139kPublic Benefit$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $462,361, the rows itemized in this filing. The $649,606 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,245 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $296k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
$10,560
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JFK LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
DORCHESTER EDUCATION ENRICHMENT PROGRAM$25,000
BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR$25,000
ZOO NEW ENGLAND$17,500
GREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREETS$13,000
THE FISHING ACADEMY$10,560
MEB FOUNDATION$10,000
TRIANGLE INC-EPIC$10,000
BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION$10,000
HOPE AND COMFORT INC$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TRAYVON MARTIN FOUNDATION: $10k → 15%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $25k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $25k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $25k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $11k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $40k → 16%BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR: $25k → 16%BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR: $25k → 16%BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR: $25k → 16%BOSTON UNCORNERED A SOLUTION BY COLLEGE BOUND DOR: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 31 repeat orgs$384k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
15

Total granted

$6.7M
$333k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+19%

Still filing today

81%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
Youth DevelopmentEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MP
    MASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +174% · 43% of their budget
  • BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +355%
  • LD
    LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +335%

Funded once

  • HH
    HEADING HOME INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $93k · revenue +179%
  • BS
    BROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -2%
  • TF
    THE FOOTLIGHT CLUB
    one grant, 2022 · $28k · revenue -3%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
2
Boston Explorers Inc

Youth Development

Recreation & Sports
3
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
4
City Kids Inc

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…

Youth Development
5
Historic Boston Incorporated
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6
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
7
The Bookbuilders of Boston Educational Fund Inc
Education
8
Evkids Inc

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…

—
9
Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc

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…

—
10
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
11
Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc
Youth Development
12
Tenacity Inc

The organization's mission is youth development and life-skill development activities.

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC: $1,376,066 · Youth DevelopmentMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $1,018,982 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INCLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $359,143 · Youth DevelopmentLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP+5 more: $165,060 · Youth Development+5 moreFRIENDS OF MARTIN'S PARK INC: $1,656,725 · Recreation & SportsFRIENDS OF MARTIN'S PARK IN…+2 more: $40,000 · Recreation & SportsBridgewater State University Foundation: $212,746 · EducationBridgewate…PROJECT DEEP ASSOCIATION INC: $180,000 · EducationPROJECT DE…JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $135,000 · EducationJOHN FITZG…Storytime Crafts Inc: $71,213 · EducationStorytime …BROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · EducationBROOKE SCH…+2 more: $30,000 · EducationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $207,500 · OtherMASS GENERAL …ADAPTIVE SPORTS NEW ENGLAND: $97,856 · OtherADAPTIVE SPOR…YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $62,000 · OtherYOUTH ENRICHM…HEADING HOME INC: $93,179 · OtherHEADING HOME …Rodman For Kids Inc: $60,136 · OtherRodman For Ki…COMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $62,500 · OtherCOMMONWEALTH …BREAKTIME UNITED INC: $30,000 · Other+16 more: $224,420 · Other+16 moreUNCORNERED INC: $220,260 · Human ServicesHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $115,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $40,500 · Human Services+1 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $110,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $97,500 · Arts & CultureGREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INC: $78,750 · Arts & CultureTHE FOOTLIGHT CLUB: $28,000 · Arts & CultureMARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureBroadway Experience: $16,500 · Arts & CultureTriangle Christian Services Inc: $170,000 · Religion
Youth Development$2,919,251Recreation & Sports$1,696,725Education$678,959Other$837,591Human Services$385,760Arts & Culture$350,750Religion$170,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFRIENDS OF MARTIN'S PARK INC: $1,656,725 over 8y, 96% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PROJECT 351 INC: $1,376,066 over 7y, 43% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $1,018,982 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP: $359,143 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetUNCORNERED INC: $220,260 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBridgewater State University Foundation: $212,746 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetPROJECT DEEP ASSOCIATION INC: $180,000 over 7y, 16% of budgetTriangle Christian Services Inc: $170,000 over 6y, 53% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $135,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC: $115,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $110,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $97,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $93,179 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $82,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGREATER ASHMONT MAIN STREET INC: $78,750 over 7y, 10% of budgetStorytime Crafts Inc: $71,213 over 2y, 26% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH ZOOLOGICAL CORPORATION D/B/A ZOO NEW ENGLAND: $62,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $62,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc: $60,136 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBROOKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $40,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $34,500 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetThe Fishing Academy Inc: $31,560 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOOTLIGHT CLUB: $28,000 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetCASA NUEVA VIDA: $23,180 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDEEP FOUNDATIONS INSTITUTE EDUCATIONAL T: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetMARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBE LIKE BRIT FOUNDATION INC: $19,090 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBroadway Experience: $16,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $11,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAchilles International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trayvon Martin Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetASHMONT NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetThe Meb Maintaining Excellent Balance Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST MARK COMMUNITY EDUCATION PROGRAM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetDORCHESTER YOUTH HOCKEY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BORN TO RUN FOUNDATION INC: $5,150 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…GivenGain Foundation …The Hamilton Company …Highland Street Conne…American Tower Corpor…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…State Street Foundati…Yawkey Foundation IICombined Jewish Phila…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA35.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Martin W Richard Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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