· Private foundation
RCB Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Services of the Merrimack Valley | $7,946 |
| Greater Boston Stage Company | $6,000 |
| Lawrence Partnership | $5,000 |
| Lawrence Community Works Inc | $5,000 |
| YMCA of Metro North | $5,000 |
| LEO Inc | $5,000 |
| The Dictionary Project | $4,500 |
| Disabled And Limbless Veterans Inc | $3,500 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc | $3,000 |
| Greater Lawrence Family Health Center | $2,600 |
| Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation | $2,500 |
| LEADS Inc | $2,500 |
| Friends of North Reading Parks and Recreation Committee | $2,450 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lynn | $2,244 |
| AgeSpan Inc | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of RCB Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 21 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue +46%
- GBGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY3× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +9%
LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +17%
Funded once
NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +93%- WHWINCHESTER HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +14%
- CCCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NORTH READING INCone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue -1%
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.
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…
The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
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…
Lowell community health center's mission is to provide caring, quality, and culturally competent health services to the people of greater lowell, regardless of their financial status; to reduce health disparities and enhance the health of…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The massachusetts senior action council, inc.'s (the organization) mission is to provide a collective voice for senior citizens to address quality-of-life concerns in various areas including health care, housing and security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 107 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 Lawrence Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS TAXPAYERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LEADS Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds READING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTH READING PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NORTH READING INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds LYNN ROTARY CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds AGESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AND LIMBLESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds READING ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON 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 · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · American Tower Corporation 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 RCB 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.
- Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
- Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Maddies Promise Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Nectar Community Investments Inc — 12% of income from government
- Social Capital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Community Music School Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cultura Latina Dance Academy Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Winchester Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn 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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