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MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$748k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Philanthropy$1.6MEducation$637kHuman Services$263kPublic Safety & Disaster$240kYouth Development$235kHousing & Shelter$171kInternational$133kFood & Nutrition$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k16 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $190k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $725k
  • $250k+1 grant · $748k
$10,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$747,760
CITY YEAR INC$200,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC$150,000
CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC$100,000
SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION FIE INC$75,000
SQUASHBUSTERS INC$50,000
PREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC$50,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED$50,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$50,000
THE BOTTOM LINE INC$25,000
JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC$25,000
SALVATION ARMY$25,000
EMPOWER-EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION$25,000
VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC$20,000
MULTICULTURAL AIDS COALITION INC$15,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC: $20k → 8%NEXT 18 INC: $3k → 17%VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC: $20k → 8%AMERICAN FRIENDS OF UN TECHO PARA MI PAIS INC: $5k → 15%HOPE AND COMFORT INC: $10k → 7%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $100k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $50k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $25k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $1k → 16%MALDEN WARMING CENTER: $5k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $50k → 8%SAHELI INC: $10k → 8%ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $15k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $150k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

VT
WI
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
KY
DE
DC
HI
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$901k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 21 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$408k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+22%

Still filing today

88%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $493k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • CITY YEAR INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +3%
  • CT
    CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +22%
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $90k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • AR
    AMERICAN RED CROSS - MASSACHUSETTS REGIONAL HEADQU
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • GB
    GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +14%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -63%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
6
Boston Foundation Inc

As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…

Philanthropy
7
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
8
Social Venture Partners Boston Inc

Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social…

Philanthropy
9
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
12
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Association for Mental Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pradiya Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%7%<5yr14%7%5–10yr21%23%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr12%20%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr21%51%10–20yr19%21%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/61
the rest of the field
12%
6,149/49,755

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.

04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/59
Grantees still filing
35/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,614,838 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC+3 more — $54,333 · PhilanthropyCITY YEAR INC — $400,000 · OtherCITY YEAR INCAMERICAN RED CROSS - MASSACHUSETTS REGIONAL HEADQU — $100,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS - MASSACH…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $54,049 · OtherBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS …+28 more — $260,694 · Other+28 moreHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $150,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR H…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRA…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican Natio…THE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE VALEDICTOR…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $25,000 · Human Services+8 more — $59,500 · Human Services+8 moreWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $90,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $40,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $30,000 · InternationalEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $10,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $75,000 · EducationNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC — $20,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · EducationBOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationThe Upward Project — $10,000 · EducationBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $3,333 · EducationSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC — $75,000 · Social Science
Philanthropy$1,669,171Other$914,743Human Services$474,500International$190,000Youth Development$177,500Education$138,333Social Science$75,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $1,614,838 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $150,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC — $75,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $54,049 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC — $40,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATAL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON CASA INC — $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMULTICULTURAL AIDS COALITION INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PEOPLE'S FUND — $11,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC — $10,900 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBAGLY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE AND COMFORT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAHELI INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Upward Project — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGOLDEN OPPORTUNITIES FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC — $5,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STONEHAM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALDEN WARMING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Friends of Un Techo Para Mi Pais Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Highland Street Conne…American Tower Corpor…Combined Jewish Phila…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…The Klarman Family Fo…Fidelity FoundationBushrod H Campbell & …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA33.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Klarman Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund

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 MFS Investment Management 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Saheli Inc — 61% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Stoneham Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 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
  • The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to MFS Investment Management Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to MFS Investment Management 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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