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Boston Police Activities League Inc

Pal of massachusetts seeks to foster a culture of trust and respect between the community and law enforcement through programs that promote character development, improve educational outcomes, and reduce crime.

$107k
Granted FY2019
4
Itemized grants FY2019
4
Organizations funded FY2019
100%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Itemized, FY2019
$31k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2019
$5,500
Largest grant, FY2019
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 4
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
1
Total assets, FY2019
$110k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 100% of the organizations Boston Police Activities League Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20194$31k100%
FY20172$46kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$45kCommunity Improvement$15kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kCrime & Legal$6kHuman Services$6k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
MJW Foundation$40,0001n/a
Cape Verdean Community Unido Inc$15,0001n/a
Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc$5,50010%
Foundation for Boston Centers for Youth & Families Inc$5,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.

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About Boston Police Activities League Inc

How much does Boston Police Activities League Inc give?
Boston Police Activities League Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $31,000, out of $106,740 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does Boston Police Activities League Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (58%), Community Improvement (19%), Public Safety & Disaster (8%).
Who are Boston Police Activities League Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: MJW Foundation ($40k), Cape Verdean Community Unido Inc ($15k), Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc ($6k).
Does Boston Police Activities League Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Where is Boston Police Activities League Inc based?
Boston Police Activities League Inc is based in MA.

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 6 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $155k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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