· Private foundation
Mentor Charitable Fund Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| HANDS ON NATURE | $7,000 |
| JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER | $7,000 |
| GREEN ROOTS | $7,000 |
| MIRA COALITION | $7,000 |
| IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| RESCUE CHARLIE'S FRIENDS | $7,000 |
| FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL | $7,000 |
| THE BIKE CONNECTOR INC | $7,000 |
| PETTENGILL HOUSE | $7,000 |
| YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORG | $7,000 |
| WE CAN | $7,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
30 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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
THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $14k · revenue +76%- HOHANDS ON NATURE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +12%
FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC2× · 2024–2025 · $10k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- ONOur Neighbors' Table Incone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- JIJUMP INCone grant, 2017 · $3k
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -100%
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Through events, workshops, promotions, advocacy and education highlighting locally-grown and produced food, the organization helps to create a thriving local food economy.
Our mission is to continue to develop and operate a permanent year-round market in boston and to support the farmers, fishers, and entrepreneurs who grow, catch, and produce local food, and to nourish our community with food and…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.
Root's mission is to help young adults create a pathway to independence through food service training and employment. by developing essential life and work readiness skills, youth leave root prepared for success in the workplace.
The mission of Massachusetts Avenue Project is to nurture the growth of a diverse and equitable community food system and promote local economic opportunities, access to affordable, nutritious food and social-change education.
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.
Gardens for Health International works to provide lasting agricultural solutions to chronic childhood malnutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Growing Places Garden Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rescue Charlies Friends. 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 21 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 — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 48 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 THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON NATURE INC ↗
- Who funds WE CAN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FOR KIDS ONLY AFTERSCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds The Pettengill House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BIKE CONNECTOR INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Waltham Inc ↗
- Who funds ABOUT FRESH INC ↗
- Who funds RESCUE CHARLIES FRIENDS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds LAST MILE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EVKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
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.
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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 Mentor Charitable Fund 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.
- Growing Places Garden Project Inc — 49% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- For Kids Only Afterschool Inc — 29% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- We Can Corporation — 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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