· Private foundation
RCB Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Lawrence Partnership | $7,500 |
| Reading Scholarship Foundation | $5,000 |
| LEO Inc | $5,000 |
| Greater Boston Stage Company | $5,000 |
| Camp Fire North Shore | $3,500 |
| Friends of North Reading Council on Aging | $3,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lynn | $2,724 |
| Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc | $2,500 |
| YMCA of Greater Boston | $2,500 |
| Greater Lawrence Family Health Center | $2,300 |
| Cultura Latina Dance Academy Inc | $1,590 |
| My Brother's Table | $1,500 |
| Northeast Metropolitan Regional Vocational High School | $1,500 |
| Wakefield Independence Day Committee Inc | $1,200 |
| Social Capital Inc | $1,150 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $105k) 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of RCB Charitable Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.
55 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2026, 31 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC6× · 2021–2026 · $40k · revenue +46%
- GBGREATER BOSTON STAGE COMPANY4× · 2022–2026 · $36k · 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 +10%
- JLJAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +47%
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.
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.
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 massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
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 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 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.
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…
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
How this is measured
94 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. 94 of the 127 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 READING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DICTIONARY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF NORTH READING PARKS & RECREATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SERVICE OF NORTH READING INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds DISABLED AND LIMBLESS VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds READING ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds LYNN ROTARY CHARITABLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP FIRE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AGESPAN 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization RCB Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RCB Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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