· Private foundation
Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners
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 $10k10 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STRAIGHT AHEAD MINISTRIES | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| PLACE OF PROMISE | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AFTERCARE MINISTRIES | $8,000 |
| UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH | $7,000 |
| BOSTON RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| BOSTON COLLABORATIVE | $5,000 |
| LIFE AFTER PRISON | $2,500 |
| FATHERS' UPLIFT INC | $2,500 |
| PEOPLE AFFECTING COMMUNITY CHANGE (PACC GLOBAL) | $2,500 |
| HIGHROCK CHURCH | $2,500 |
| PARTAKERS INC | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Straight Ahead Ministries INC9× · 2017–2025 · $215k · revenue +35%- NENew England Aftercare Ministries Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +35%
- BRBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- BDBOSTON DREAM CENTER CORPone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue -63%
- FOFRIENDS OF PRISONERS INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue 0%
- SOsisterhood on the moveone grant, 2017 · $250
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.
Restore inmates and those addicted back in to society
To provide a transitional living faclity for battered women, women released from prison and women rehabing from drug addiction
The organization is to reinvent, rehabilitates,and formulate as a support. group for individuals out of the prison system Also offers job assistance.
A faith-based ministry that serves inmates preparing to transition from incarceration to successful restoration into the community, family & reconciliation to god.
Provide ministry to inmates
To assist former prisoners to transition into society successully
Promising People Missions is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization committed to aiding transitioning citizens in overcoming re-entry obstacles by facilitating access to support services, connecting them with faith-based organizations,…
Our 12 chaplains conduct group and individual bible studies and training to cover over 15,000 men and women in city, county and state facilities.
The organization's purpose is to provide resources for men taking the next steps from recovery to a sustainable lifestyle. Our goal is to create a path to success for men struggling with a broken life pattern by providing a Christ-centered…
We are having tremendous sucess treating men and women with drug and alcohol adductions. We are using work programs in a concentrated christian envorinment. WE are presently housing 87 men and 22 women in seperate ficilities.
To help our clients recover from incarceration and homelessness, while providing programming that will empower individuals to become employed, have a bridge out of poverty, become self sufficient and overcome substance abuse, domestic…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Place of Promise Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prison Prevention Ministries Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 21 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 Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds New England Aftercare Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Prison Prevention Ministries Inc ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DREAM CENTER CORP ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE AFTER PRISON INC ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PRISONERS 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Gardiner Howland Shaw Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Massachusetts Society for Aiding Discharged Prisoners 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.
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% 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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