· Private foundation
Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of ROCKLAND TRUST - BLUE HILLS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k87 grants · $330k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $523k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $50,000 |
| FAMILYAID BOSTON INC | $30,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITY MENTORING TEAM | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| YMCA GREATER BOSTON | $20,000 |
| HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC | $15,000 |
| METRO HOUSING BOSTON | $15,000 |
| EDEN | $15,000 |
| QUINCY COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC | $12,500 |
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 (FY17–22, $717k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +70% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
152 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2022, 69 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $275k · revenue +49%- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC5× · 2017–2022 · $137k · revenue +45%
- HPHyde Park Art Association Inc2× · 2017–2018 · $103k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CRCRISTO REY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $35k
- DKDCF KIDS FUND INC AKA WONDERFUNDone grant, 2020 · $20k
- MBMETROPOLITAN BOSTON HOUSING PARTNERSHIP INC D/B/A METRO HOUSING BOSTONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +157%
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
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…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
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…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
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…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community Mentoring Team 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
331 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. 331 of the 428 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Hyde Park Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER BROOK ARTS AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS' HOUSING AND PLANNING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC) ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds DOVE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE GIRLS CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HYDE PARK MAIN STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank 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 Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation 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.
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Bay State Community Services Inc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- Work Incorporated — 76% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Quincy Asian Resources Inc — 43% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England 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
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 21% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Franklin Performing Arts Company Inc — 20% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
- South Middlesex Opportunity Council Inc — 18% of income from government
- Hyde Park Art Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
- Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilgrim Society — 1% of income from government
- Madison Park Development Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Inspire Arts and Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nantucket Historical Association — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hyde Park Main Streets Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brazilian Women's Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Curry College — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.