· Public charity
MJW Charitable Foundation Inc
Provide funds to organizations or individuals within the greater boston metropolitan region that support the advancement of education, the promotion of youth athletics, the promotion of health and wellness and/or the betterment of the community, including but not limited to youth sports programs, youth community activity organizations,…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $20,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $29,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $9,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys and Girls Clubs of DorchesterInc | $20,000 |
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 (FY18–19, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +59% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down.
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 FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC5× · 2017–2021 · $120k · revenue +355%- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc3× · 2017–2019 · $75k · revenue +447%
- POPAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $65k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- SAST ANNES PARISHone grant, 2019 · $25k
- SHSACRED HEART SCHOOL ROSLINDALEone grant, 2019 · $25k
- DEDORCHESTER EAGLES POP WARNERone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
Old colony ymca helps children, families, and individuals develop to their fullest potential. we respond to ever-changing community needs and view our services through three lenses: youth development, healthy living, and social…
Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA
Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is East Boston Social Centers Inc and the most unlike its peers is Voice of Tabernacle Multi Service Center 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 33 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 7% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOSTON EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT DEEP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BMA TENPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds EMH Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER YOUTH SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICE OF TABERNACLE MULTI SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Dorchester Youth Collaborative ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH IN CRISIS MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE ARTS AND MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Fishing Academy 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rodman For Kids Inc · The Mark Wahlberg Youth Foundation Inc
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 MJW Charitable 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.
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Emh Recovery Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Fishing Academy Inc — 14% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bma Tenpoint Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Inspire Arts and Music Inc — 1% 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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