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Poduska Family Foundation Inc co Susan M Poduska at a glance

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Poduska Family Foundation Inc co Susan M Poduska

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$76k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$22k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$198kHealth$121kReligion$89kRecreation & Sports$6kHousing & Shelter$6kEducation$4kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $68k
$13,800
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Commonwealth Shakespeare Co$22,400
St Peter's Episcopal Church$21,750
MIT Council for the Arts$13,800
Lam Dance Works$10,000
Boston Lyric Opera$6,462
Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trus$1,200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Dignity Matters Inc: $1k → 8%Pine Street Inn: $6k → 16%Pine Street Inn: $100 → 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.
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$448k · 13 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +71% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
30

Total granted

$448k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+71%

Still filing today

54%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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

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Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TC
    The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $137k · revenue +125%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2017–2022 · $88k · revenue +162%
  • BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY
    2× · 2020–2025 · $11k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • LC
    LAHEY CLINIC INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +31%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
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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2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum

The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.

Education
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
12
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 46 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $106,202 · OtherST PETERS EPISCOPAL CHURCHMIT Council for the Arts: $58,800 · OtherMIT Council for the ArtsBoch Center for Performing Arts: $27,800 · OtherBoch Center for Performing Arts+21 more: $28,543 · Other+21 moreThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc: $136,957 · Arts & CultureThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co IncBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $11,462 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYLam Dance Works: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLam Dance Works+7 more: $5,150 · Arts & CultureDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $87,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Insti…LAHEY CLINIC INC: $15,000 · HealthLAHEY CLINIC INC+5 more: $8,300 · Health+5 morePINE STREET INN INC: $5,825 · Human ServicesDignity Matters Inc: $1,000 · Human ServicesEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 · EducationASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $2,000 · Public Benefit
Other$221,345Arts & Culture$163,569Health$110,800Human Services$6,825Recreation & Sports$2,500Education$2,000Public Benefit$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc: $136,957 over 8y, 2.7% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $87,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLAHEY CLINIC INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $11,462 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $5,825 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAMI National: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR TOBACCO-FREE KIDS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER: $650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDKIND INTERNATIONAL INC: $600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHermitage Artist Retreat Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVINEYARD MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Pfizer Foundation…The Ayco Charitable F…The US Charitable Gif…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Poduska Family Foundation Inc co Susan M Poduska funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Poduska Family Foundation Inc co Susan M Poduska. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Hermitage Artist Retreat Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 46 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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By state
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