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Robert Treat Paine Association

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$120k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2025
27
Organizations funded FY2024
4%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
27 to 30
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$1.4M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Robert Treat Paine Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureHousing & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving31$120k13%
FY202427$105k4%
FY202328$112k4%
FY202229$112k3%
FY202127$92k11%
FY202030$91k0%
FY201930$88k0%
FY201830$88k3%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$212kArts & Culture$185kHousing & Shelter$152kHealth$78kEducation$77kEnvironment$65kHuman Services$31kCivil Rights$29kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust$116,000846%
Pine Street Inn Inc$65,25090%
Rosie's Place Inc$65,25090%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$37,25090%
American Friends Service Committee$29,0009n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$24,75090%
Greenwood Music Camp Inc$17,50090%
African Community Education Program Inc$16,75090%
From the Top Inc$15,50090%
Native Plant Trust Inc$15,50090%
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All grantees of Robert Treat Paine Association by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust$116,000846%
Pine Street Inn Inc$65,25090%
Rosie's Place Inc$65,25090%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$37,25090%
American Friends Service Committee$29,0009n/a
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$24,75090%
Greenwood Music Camp Inc$17,50090%
African Community Education Program Inc$16,75090%
From the Top Inc$15,50090%
Native Plant Trust Inc$15,50090%
Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary$15,50090%
Zumix Inc$15,50090%
Winsor Music Inc$15,00083%
Azusa Christian Community Inc$15,0007n/a
Artists for Humanity Inc$14,50090%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$14,50090%
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc$14,00020%
Codman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation$10,00040%
Community Music Center of Boston Inc$6,00030%
The Bell Foundation Inc$6,00040%
Green Energy Consumers Alliance Inc$5,00010%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$4,00010%
Tenacity Inc$2,00010%
Squashbusters Inc$2,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($354k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Robert Treat Paine Association supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 22 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRobert Treat Paine Historical Trust: $116,000 over 8y, 46% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $65,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $65,250 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Audubon Society Inc: $37,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $24,750 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwood Music Camp Inc: $17,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetAfrican Community Education Program Inc: $16,750 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetFrom the Top Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNative Plant Trust Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary: $15,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetZumix Inc: $15,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetWinsor Music Inc: $15,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetArtists for Humanity Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $14,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCodman Square Neighborhood Development Corporation: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Music Center of Boston Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bell Foundation Inc: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Energy Consumers Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomen's Lunch Place Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTenacity Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSquashbusters Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 22.

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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 IncMA20.2× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

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About Robert Treat Paine Association

How much does Robert Treat Paine Association give?
Robert Treat Paine Association reported 31 grants totaling $120,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Robert Treat Paine Association fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (24%), Arts & Culture (21%), Housing & Shelter (17%).
Who are Robert Treat Paine Association's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Robert Treat Paine Historical Trust ($116k), Pine Street Inn Inc ($65k), Rosie's Place Inc ($65k).
Does Robert Treat Paine Association fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Robert Treat Paine Association accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Robert Treat Paine Association?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Barr Foundation, Eastern Bank Foundation.
Where is Robert Treat Paine Association based?
Robert Treat Paine Association is based in MA.

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 42 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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