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Ploughshares Foundation at a glance

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Ploughshares Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
368
Grants FY2025still arriving
30
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

International$5.9MCivil Rights$2.1MEnvironment$1.6MPhilanthropy$1.5MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$1.2MCrime & Legal$1.1MHuman Services$926kOther$0
02FY2025 · 368 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k246 grants · $1.1M
  • $10k–50k112 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $610k
$6,000
Median grant
30
States reached
$81M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERS IN HEALTH$85,000
LENNY ZAKIM FUND$75,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$70,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$60,000
EARLHAM COLLEGE$60,000
UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SERVICE COMMITTEE$60,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN$50,000
MERCY CORPS$50,000
UNITED MID COAST CHARITIES INC$50,000
FIRST PARISH IN CAMBRIDGE$50,000
DIRECT RELIEF INTERNATIONAL$45,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$45,000
AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE$41,000
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC$40,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC$40,000
02The need
03

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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CHARITYWATER INC: $15k → 4%CHARITYWATER INC: $15k → 4%HOMEWORTHY: $15k → 11%PENQUIS: $10k → 11%KNOX COUNTY HOMELESS COALITION: $10k → 11%HOMEWORTHY: $10k → 11%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%MARGARET FULLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%CHARITYWATER INC: $15k → 17%CHARITYWATER INC: $15k → 17%CHARITYWATER INC: $15k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $11k → 17%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $10k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $11k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $10k → 17%CASA MYRNA: $18k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE PROGRAM FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE PROGRAM FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE PROGRAM FOR THE HOMELESS: $10k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $20k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $18k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $18k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $18k → 16%CASA MYRNA: $18k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $15k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $15k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $12k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 12% of Ploughshares Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ploughshares Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 19% 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 410 repeat orgs$183k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

410 repeat relationships: 341 still active in FY2025, 69 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

410
12

Total granted

$19M
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
0%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $137k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $570k · revenue +33%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $540k · revenue +39%
  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $365k · revenue +63%

Funded once

  • CH
    CAMBRIDGE HOUSING ASSISTANCE FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $12k
  • SU
    STATES UNITED TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENC CO GPEC-ICHV
    one grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue -67%
  • NJ
    NEW JEWISH NARRATIVE (FORMERLY AMERICANS FOR PEACE NOW)
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
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
Actionaid Usa

Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…

Social Science
2
Indigenous Peoples Rights Inc

To lead and coordinate the global initiative to address and prevent criminalization, violence, and impunity against indigenous peoples towards strengthening their collectives, solidarity, and actions.

Human Services
3
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Ceres Inc

Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…

Environment
6
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
7
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
8
Center for International Policy Inc

The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…

International
9
The Fund for Peace Inc

Building bridges across diverse sectors, and developing innovative technologies and tools for policy makers. a leader in the conflict assessment and early warning field, the fund for peace focuses on the problems of weak and failing…

International
10
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
11
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
12
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope for Haiti Inc; the most unlike its peers is Asylum Seeker Network of Support. 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

330 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 330 of the 451 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
70
Early backer (in before they grew)
319/330
Grantees still filing
215/330
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $540,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCInternational Rescue Committee INC: $365,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INCUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $360,000 · InternationalUnitarian Universalist Service Comm…DIRECT RELIEF: $360,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEFMercy Corps: $330,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsSave The Children Federation Inc: $330,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation IncAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $242,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $195,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $180,000 · International+32 more: $2,182,000 · International+32 moreAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE: $305,000 · OtherFIRST PARISH IN CAMBRIDGE: $300,000 · OtherTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $475,000 · OtherTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND+94 more: $5,478,000 · Other+94 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $163,000 · Environment350ORG: $160,000 · EnvironmentMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $120,000 · EnvironmentNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $105,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FUND INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $75,000 · EnvironmentGeorges River Land Trust: $64,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $60,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $48,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $48,000 · Environment+7 more: $229,000 · EnvironmentCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $110,000 · Human ServicesCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $72,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $72,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $62,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesMARGARET FULLER NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $60,000 · Human ServicesHomeworthy: $55,000 · Human ServicesPENQUIS CAP INC: $48,000 · Human ServicesUSA FOR UNFPA INC: $43,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $42,000 · Human ServicesImmigrants Rising: $38,000 · Human Services+9 more: $284,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $570,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $242,000 · HealthDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $77,000 · HealthRestorative Justice Project Maine: $58,000 · HealthSYRIAN AMERICAN MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION: $48,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $37,000 · Health+1 more: $34,000 · HealthBoston Foundation Inc: $319,900 · PhilanthropyUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC: $300,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $162,000 · PhilanthropyBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc: $38,000 · PhilanthropyEarlham College Inc: $360,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $120,000 · EducationCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $81,000 · EducationThe Brookline Library Foundation Inc: $72,000 · EducationIsland Institute: $70,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $37,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC: $36,000 · EducationCONSERVATORY LAB FOUNDATION INC: $31,000 · EducationBEYOND CONFLICT INC: $28,000 · Education
International$5,314,000Other$6,558,000Environment$1,172,000Human Services$1,138,000Health$1,066,000Philanthropy$919,900Education$835,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $570,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $540,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $475,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $365,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUnitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEarlham College Inc: $360,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $360,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $330,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $330,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $319,900 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC: $300,000 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $242,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC: $242,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $230,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $213,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $200,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $195,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $180,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $163,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $162,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budget350ORG: $160,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $153,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $152,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $142,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $141,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL: $132,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES: $120,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $110,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNatural Resources Council of Maine Inc: $105,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $97,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY GLOBAL INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARTER CENTER INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $89,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $88,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC: $88,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSEEDS OF PEACE INC: $83,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAMBRIDGE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC: $81,000 over 6y, 3.4% 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.

  • Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds Earlham College Inc ↗
  • Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED MIDCOAST CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JEWISH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds 350ORG ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds CURE VIOLENCE GLOBAL ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
  • Who funds WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds BENEVOLENT FRATERNITY OF UNITARIAN CHURCHES ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
  • Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Klarman Family Fo…United Way Of Massach…Combined Jewish Phila…Cambridge Community F…Adelard & Valeda Roy …The Hamilton Company …Barr Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA72.3× affinity80 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Klarman Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Barr 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 Ploughshares Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ploughshares Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Hias Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Respond Inc: 80% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Partakers Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • The Young People's Project Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Transition House Inc: 39% of income from government
  • On the Rise Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Brookline Greenspace Alliance Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
  • Youthbuild Boston Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Bma Tenpoint Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Evkids Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Legal Services Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Baroque Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc: 2% of income from government
  • A Far Cry Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Conservatory Lab Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester County Food Bank Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Ploughshares Foundation 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 451 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home