· Private foundation
Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k131 grants · $471k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $364k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OIHM INCCREATIVITY FESTIVAL ACCT | $45,800 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $40,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON CLERGY BENEFIT FUNDING TRUST | $30,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $27,000 |
| BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $15,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE INC | $12,500 |
| CROSSROADS | $12,000 |
| GHPF INC | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR METROWEST | $10,000 |
| TEAM IMPACT | $10,000 |
| LGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| RIPPLES OF HOPE | $10,000 |
| RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% 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.
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.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
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…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities for People Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project 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 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
105 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. 105 of the 147 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 CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CARE INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds RIPPLES OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds OUT METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds LGBTQ SENIOR HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds Birthday Wishes Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds PROVISION MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds QUINCY ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds LOTUS ENTREPRENEURSHIP INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual 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 Needham Bank 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.
- Lgbtq Senior Housing Inc — 100% of income from government
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Communities for People Inc — 43% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Community Investors Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Midas Collaborative Inc — 39% of income from government
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- West Medford Community Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Roslindale Village Main Street Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Out Metrowest Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Spark Kindness Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hyde Park Main Streets Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Project Just Because Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation 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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