· Public charity
My Brothers Keeper Inc
The Organization is committed to providing furniture, household items, ancillary services and food to the needy individuals and families who seek assistance in the communities of southeastern Massachusetts.
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.
The 14 grants below total $78,935 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,813,591 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $5,734,656 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 |
|---|---|
| Father Bills and Mainspring | $7,400 |
| Holy Cross Foreign Mission | $7,200 |
| Congregation of Holy Cross | $6,735 |
| Friends of the Unborn | $6,000 |
| School on Wheels | $5,600 |
| Pan Mass Challange Jimmy Fund | $5,500 |
| Bishop Stang High School | $5,500 |
| Kings College | $5,000 |
| Stonehill College | $5,000 |
| Greater Boston Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Bristol Community College Foundatio | $5,000 |
| Providence College | $5,000 |
| Foundation to Advance Catholic Educ | $5,000 |
| South Shore Stars | $5,000 |
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 (FY23–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- SCSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +26%
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC6× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +144%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $24k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- CSCARDINAL SPELLMAN HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $9k
- EREMH Recovery Incone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +17%
- HCHoly Cross Churchone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
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To preserve and foster the traditions of quinsigamond community college.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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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.
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To encourage, receive and administer gifts and bequests of property and funds for educational and charitable purposes for the advancement of berkshire community college.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The ccccef is a non-profit organization supporting the mission of cape cod community college, its students, its faculty, and its community endeavors, by raising and managing funds, encouraging endowments, and supporting the college's…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Unborn 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 42 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 12% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 31 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 STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UNBORN INC ↗
- Who funds KING'S COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Bristol Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds Massasoit Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE STARS INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds EMH Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds THE QUINCY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds Old Colony Hospice Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Roxbury Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Abington Bank Community Foundation Inc F/K/A Envision Bank Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Harold Brooks Foundation · United Way of Greater Plymouth County In · The Flatley 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 My Brothers Keeper 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.
- South Shore Stars Inc — 54% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Emh Recovery Inc — 14% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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