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Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0164% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$157kHousing & Shelter$127kHuman Services$123kRecreation & Sports$72kEducation$63kArts & Culture$52kCommunity Improvement$22kEnvironment$15kHealth$5kOther$357k
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k13 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION PEACE$20,000
MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC$13,370
SOCIEDAD LATINA INC$12,500
FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRDIAN INC$11,600
FENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$10,000
KAJI ASO STUDIO INC$8,000
MISSION HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC$8,000
BOSTON BUILDING MATERIALS COOP CHARITABLE & EDUCATIONAL FUND INC$7,500
BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC$7,000
FRIENDS OF RAMLER PARK INC$6,929
MISSION HILL MAIN STREETS$6,820
MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN FOUNDATION INC$6,000
BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE$5,000
NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC$5,000
PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC$4,520
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 (FY17–25, $123k) 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.

area typical 8%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%ROXBURY TENANTS OF HAVARD ASSOCIATION: $4k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $4k → 16%BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC: $7k → 16%MISSION HILL LINK INC: $7k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $30k → 16%MISSION HILL LINK INC: $5k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $13k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRDIAN INC: $12k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER: $10k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRDIAN INC: $10k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRDIAN INC: $8k → 16%FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRDIAN INC: $6k → 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.

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$917k · 27 repeat orgs$76k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

$917k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-3%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterArts & CultureRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • MA
    MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $101k · revenue +183%
  • TF
    THE FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRIDIAN INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $88k · revenue +28%
  • SOCIEDAD LATINA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • FG
    FENWAY GARDEN SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue -43%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue -28%
  • MM
    MISSION MAIN TENANTS TASK FORCE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -23%

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
Historic Boston Incorporated
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2
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
3
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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4
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
5
Boston Affordable Housing Coalition Inc

Preserve affordable low income housing in boston and the surrounding area

Housing & Shelter
6
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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7
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
8
Mass Liberation

To create cultural and educational hubs, including the harriet tubman freedom park, a space for families and multi-generational neighborhoods in the boston area to come together, and to build community and share art and culture, especially…

Education
9
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
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10
The Bookbuilders of Boston Educational Fund Inc
Education
11
Tenants Development Corporation

The promotion, maintenance and management of housing in the south end of boston, massachusetts, to low and moderate-income families of every race, religion, and nationality.

Housing & Shelter
12
North End Historical Society Inc

To collect and preserve the historical record and material culture of boston's north end. also to catalog and present these resources through publications, lectures, educational programs and exhibits.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kaji Aso Studio Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%4%<5yr13%8%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr22%15%20–35yr14%54%35–55yr15%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr13%14%5–10yr18%0%10–20yr22%23%20–35yr14%52%35–55yr15%9%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
2/33
the rest of the field
10%
695/6,680

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

30 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. 30 of the 43 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/30
Grantees still filing
15/30
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

OPERATION PEACE — $147,902 · OtherOPERATION PEACEMISSION HILL HEALTH MOVEMENT INC — $40,045 · OtherMISSION HILL HEALTH MOVEMENT INCFENWAY EDUCATION & NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT FUND INC — $30,800 · OtherFENWAY EDUCATION & NEIGHBORHOOD SUPPORT FUND …Massachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc — $17,700 · OtherBOSTON BUILDING MATERIALS COOP CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $17,500 · OtherTOBIN COMMUNITY CENTER — $15,140 · OtherDorchester Youth Collaborative — $15,100 · OtherMISSION HILL MAIN STREETS INC — $22,040 · OtherMISSION HILL MAIN STREETS INC+17 more — $92,004 · Other+17 moreMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $101,370 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW…SOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $50,700 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LATINA I…+1 more — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSION HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC — $50,657 · Housing & ShelterMISSION HILL N…FENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $42,750 · Housing & ShelterFENWAY COMMUNI…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC — $34,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HU…THE FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRIDIAN INC — $88,250 · Human ServicesTHE FENWAY COM…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CH…MISSION HILL LINK INC — $11,738 · Human ServicesMISSION HILL L…BOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON SELF HE…+1 more — $4,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF RAMLER PARK INC — $48,634 · Recreation & SportsEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $23,845 · Recreation & SportsArts Talks Inc — $31,915 · EducationPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $31,405 · EducationKAJI ASO STUDIO INC — $38,000 · Arts & CultureBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$398,231Youth Development$157,070Housing & Shelter$127,407Human Services$122,988Recreation & Sports$72,479Education$63,320Arts & Culture$52,000

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 budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $101,370 over 9y, 1.7% of budgetTHE FENWAY COMMUNITY CENTER AT VIRIDIAN INC — $88,250 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC — $50,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetMISSION HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES INC — $50,657 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF RAMLER PARK INC — $48,634 over 9y, 53% of budgetFENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $42,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION HILL HEALTH MOVEMENT INC — $40,045 over 6y, 8.2% of budgetKAJI ASO STUDIO INC — $38,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC — $34,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetArts Talks Inc — $31,915 over 5y, 39% of budgetPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $31,405 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $23,845 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMISSION HILL MAIN STREETS INC — $22,040 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMassachusetts College of Art and Design Foundation Inc — $17,700 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON BUILDING MATERIALS COOP CHARITABLE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $17,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetDorchester Youth Collaborative — $15,100 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetThe Solo Foundation Inc — $12,842 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION HILL LINK INC — $11,738 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetBoston Comic Arts Foundation LTD — $9,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetFENWAY ALLIANCE INC — $8,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFENWAY GARDEN SOCIETY INC — $7,652 over 1y, 15% of budgetBOSTON SELF HELP CENTER INC — $7,000 over 1y, 91% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION MAIN TENANTS TASK FORCE INC — $6,950 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetMission Hill Community School Council Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetEdgar P Benjamin Healthcare Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROXBURY TENANTS OF HARVARD ASSOCIATION INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Children's Hospital C…Boston Foundation IncNew England Baptist H…Liberty Mutual Founda…Boston After School &…Mass General Brigham …The New England Patri…President and Fellows…The Slater Foundation…The Red Sox Foundatio…Boston Charitable Tru…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA26.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Children's Hospital Corporation · Boston Foundation Inc · New England Baptist Hospital · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · President and Fellows of Harvard College · The Slater Foundation Inc · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office

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 Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust 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 · 90%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Mission Hill Link Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Fenway Community Center at Viridian Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Fenway Alliance Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust Inc?

Find your warmest path to Mission Hillfenway Neighborhood Trust 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 43 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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