· Private foundation
Pca Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACE MENTOR OF GREATER BOSTON | $5,000 |
| BUILDERS OF COLOR COALITION | $5,000 |
| BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MAUD MORGAN ARTS CENTER | $4,000 |
| ON THE RISE | $3,000 |
| 2 LIFE COMMUNITIES | $2,500 |
| FOOD FOR FREE | $2,500 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,500 |
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, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- YBYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +46%
- BABOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +23%
BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +95%
Funded once
PINE STREET INN INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +22%- BEBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- JCJUST-A-START CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -24%
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.
Preserve affordable low income housing in boston and the surrounding area
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.
The Greater Boston Real Estate Board was incorporated as a not-for-profit organization to advocate, educate, inform, and serve members of the real estate industry. The Board continues to foster and promote high ethical standards in all…
The organization's purpose is to support and operate for the benefit of greater boston food bank, inc. a 501(c)(3) corporation, which is its sole member.
To collectively work with partners to statbilize neighborhoods by providing innovative means by which as many residents of foreclosed occupied homes as soon as possible can stay in (continued - see sch o)
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…
The boston society of architects (bsa/aia) exists to improve the quality of life for boston-area residents by championing innovation in the built environment. as a membership association, we achieve this mission in partnership with the bsa…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is On the Rise Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 24 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 YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARCHITECTURAL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDERS OF COLOR COALITION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds ON THE RISE INC ↗
- Who funds 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Boston Main Streets Foundation ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pca 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.
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- 2LIFE Communities Inc — 8% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boston Architectural College — 1% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston 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.