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Nbt Charitable Trust at a glance

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Nbt Charitable Trust

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.

$300k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$615kArts & Culture$325kYouth Development$288kPhilanthropy$150kHealth$100kEmployment$100kFood & Nutrition$60kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $150k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM$50,000
Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc$50,000
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$50,000
Boston Private Industry Council Inc$35,000
West End House Girls Camp$30,000
CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC$25,000
WriteBoston$20,000
CASA Foundation$20,000
SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD$20,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND: $100k → 7%THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $100k → 8%CASA Foundation: $20k → 10%SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD: $20k → 16%NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $500k → 9%THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $50k → 8%SOMEONE ELSE'S CHILD: $20k → 16%THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM: $50k → 8%Boston Explorers: $20k → 16%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $35k → 8%BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY: $35k → 16%CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $25k → 8%Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: $50k → 16%Town of Lincoln Council on Aging: $3k → 8%Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: $50k → 16%Town of Lincoln Parks and Recreation Dep: $3k → 8%Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: $50k → 16%Town of Lincoln Council on Aging: $3k → 8%TENACITY INC: $40k → 16%Domestic Violence Services Network Inc: $3k → 8%West End House Girls Camp: $30k → 16%Groton Hill Music Center: $15k → 8%Boston Private Industry Council Inc: $35k → 16%Groton Hill Music Center: $75k → 8%WriteBoston: $20k → 16%West End House Girls Camp: $25k → 16%Boston Private Industry Council Inc: $35k → 16%WriteBoston: $20k → 16%West End House Girls Camp: $23k → 16%Boston Private Industry Council Inc: $30k → 16%WriteBoston: $15k → 16%Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: $50k → 16%Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: $50k → 16%Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: $50k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 30% of Nbt Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Nbt Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 30% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$923k · 9 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
8

Total granted

$923k
$705k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+30%

Still filing today

89%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyHealthEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CS
    COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +43%
  • PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $150k · revenue +1%
  • BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $100k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • NH
    NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $500k
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +50%
  • TENACITY INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -5%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
2
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc

The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of change in their communities.

Education
3
Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc

The mission of the foundation is to support boston center for youth and families in its work to enhance the quality of life for boston residents by partnering with community center councils, agencies, and businesses to support the…

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4
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
5
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
6
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
7
The Phoenix School Inc

The mission of the School is to develop global citizens who are compassionate, creative, and technologically proficient individuals in a dynamic and interconnected world.

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8
Danvers Community Access Television Incorporated

Manage facilities for community access programming on the public educational & governmental access channels.

Public Benefit
9
The History Co-Lab Inc

Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving

Education
10
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
11
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education
12
Sciboston Inc

To reach, inspire, support & empower individuals with spinal cord injuries

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Someone Elses Child Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW HAMPTON SCHOOL: $500,000 · OtherNEW HAMPTON SCHOOLCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $150,000 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INCGroton Hill Music Center: $90,000 · OtherGroton Hill Music CenterCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $60,000 · OtherCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INCTENACITY INC: $40,000 · Other+5 more: $50,000 · Other+5 moreDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $200,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY MUSEUM…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACAD…PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHRO…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE: $100,000 · EmploymentWriteBoston Inc: $55,000 · EducationSomeone Elses Child Inc: $40,000 · EducationWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $77,500 · Youth Development
Other$890,000Arts & Culture$235,000Philanthropy$150,000Health$100,000Employment$100,000Education$95,000Youth Development$77,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $200,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $150,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE: $100,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC: $77,500 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWriteBoston Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTENACITY INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSomeone Elses Child Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Explorers Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDomestic Violence Services Network Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Nbt II Foundation Jh3…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…National Grid Foundat…Boston After School &…Boston Foundation IncMorgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Nbt II Foundation Jh3540MA22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nbt II Foundation Jh3540 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · National Grid Foundation · Boston After School & Beyond Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Nbt Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nbt Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Nbt Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Nbt Charitable Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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