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Nbt II Foundation Jh3540

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.

$900k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
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 FY20172025.

Health$2.6MYouth Development$2.6MArts & Culture$757kEmployment$540kFood & Nutrition$485kCommunity Improvement$370kPhilanthropy$340kEducation$173kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $490k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $400k
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BROAD INSTITUTE INC$150,000
CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND$100,000
Household Goods$100,000
GROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER$50,000
YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC$45,000
HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE$40,000
ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY$40,000
CONSERVATORY LAB CHARTER SCHOOL$40,000
YEAR UP UNITED$40,000
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION$35,000
SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS$35,000
FUTURE CHEFS$35,000
ZUMIX$35,000
PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES$35,000
826 BOSTON$35,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $125k) 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%Household Goods: $100k → 16%New England Sci-Tech: $25k → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.0M · 32 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +89% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
4

Total granted

$8.0M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+89%

Still filing today

78%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k 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
EducationArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.3M · revenue +224%
  • TB
    The Broad Institute Inc
    5× · 2018–2025 · $950k · revenue +89%
  • THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $380k · revenue +199%

Funded once

  • BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +89%
  • WI
    WriteBoston Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +165%
  • BE
    Boston Explorers Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +74%

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.

2
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
3
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
4
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
6
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

7
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
8
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
9
The History Co-Lab Inc

Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving

Education
10
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

11
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…

12
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youthbuild Boston Inc and the most unlike its peers is New England Sci-Tech Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyRegional Advocacy and Civic…Performing Arts Organizatio…Supportive Housing & Servic…Food Access & Nutrition Pro…School Support FoundationsUniversity Investment Manag…Boston Area Historic Preser…Private Recreation Clubs
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr20%45%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr13%7%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr20%54%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
10%
1,770/17,244

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

31 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 41 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
25/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDAT…The Broad Institute Inc — $950,000 · HealthThe Broad Institute IncWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $350,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL R…YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $305,000 · OtherYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INCYEAR UP GREATER BOSTON — $230,000 · OtherYEAR UP GREATER BOSTONBIKES NOT BOMBS INC — $225,000 · OtherBIKES NOT BOMBS INCFOUNDATION FOR THE BOSTON CENTERS FOR — $150,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR THE BOSTON CENTERS …COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR — $150,000 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FORCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $150,000 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUT…PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC — $130,000 · OtherGROTON HILL MUSIC CENTER — $120,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $90,000 · OtherTENACITY INC — $265,000 · OtherTENACITY INCYEAR UP INC — $110,000 · OtherBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE — $205,000 · OtherBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL IN…HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC — $100,000 · Other+13 more — $263,000 · Other+13 moreARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $360,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMA…ZUMIX INC — $315,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INCBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $220,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CHILDREN'…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $220,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACAD…DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $107,000 · Arts & CultureDISCOVERY MUSEUM…THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $380,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HYDE S…THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $370,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECT…The Food Project Inc — $280,000 · Food & NutritionCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC — $205,000 · Food & NutritionSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $255,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC — $77,400 · Youth DevelopmentPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $300,000 · Philanthropy
Health$2,600,000Other$2,493,000Arts & Culture$1,222,000Community Improvement$750,000Food & Nutrition$485,000Youth Development$332,400Philanthropy$300,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,300,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Broad Institute Inc — $950,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC — $380,000 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $370,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC — $360,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $350,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetZUMIX INC — $315,000 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC — $305,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $300,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetThe Food Project Inc — $280,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTENACITY INC — $265,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $255,000 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC — $225,000 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetBOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC — $220,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $220,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE — $205,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC — $205,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC — $150,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC — $130,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $107,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetWEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC — $77,400 over 5y, 5.6% of budget826 BOSTON INC — $65,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCI-TECH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWriteBoston Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBoston Explorers Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetDomestic Violence Services Network Inc — $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $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.

  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds The Broad Institute Inc
  • Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC
  • Who funds WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH
  • Who funds ZUMIX INC
  • Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC
  • Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc
  • Who funds TENACITY INC
  • Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC
  • Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC
  • Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE
  • Who funds CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC
  • Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC
  • Who funds DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC
  • Who funds WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC
  • Who funds 826 BOSTON INC
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCI-TECH INC
  • Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
  • Who funds CONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds WriteBoston Inc
  • Who funds Boston Explorers Inc
  • Who funds Domestic Violence Services Network Inc
  • Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA29.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Nbt Charitable Trust · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Ramsey McCluskey Family Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Klarman Family Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Edvestors 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 Nbt II Foundation Jh3540 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
202122232425
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc52% of income from government
  • The Broad Institute Inc19% of income from government
  • Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc10% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc9% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research7% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc5% of income from government
  • Discovery Museum Inc3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
  • 826 Boston Inc3% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc2% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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

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How do I get to Nbt II Foundation Jh3540?

Find your warmest path to Nbt II Foundation Jh3540 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 41 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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