· Public charity
Rodman For Kids Inc
To benefit disadvantaged youths from all ethnic and cultural backgrounds.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $1,114,129 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,369,353 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $255,224 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $609k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $477k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Mass Mentoring | $122,766 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester | $67,702 |
| Text Less Live More | $63,956 |
| Family Nurturing Center | $60,769 |
| UMASS Memorial Health Office of Philanthropy | $55,881 |
| Wildflower | $53,401 |
| Jewish Big Brothers Big Sisters | $52,562 |
| Camp Avoda | $48,764 |
| Big Brother Big Sister of Central MassMetrowest | $44,571 |
| Above the Clouds | $44,403 |
| Trinity Boston Connects | $43,481 |
| Association for Autism & Neurodiversity | $38,357 |
| The Key Program Inc | $36,585 |
| ConfiKids | $30,780 |
| The Sports Museum | $30,435 |
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 (FY17–24, $7.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% 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 +47% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +27% · 30% of their budget- JBJEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +17% · 52% of their budget
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2.2M · revenue +288% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- AFARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.0M · revenue +83%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $165k
- RRROXBURY ROOTS MONTESSORI INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $78k · revenue +339% · 76% of their budget
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Brockton area arc inc will work in partnership with and for the community to provide advocacy, information and direct services that offer new opportunities and choice for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and…
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Key Program Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Canton Police Relief Assocoiation. 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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
108 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 108 of the 122 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 CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WILDFLOWER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABOVE THE CLOUDS INC ↗
- Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds TEXTLESS LIVE MORE INC ↗
- Who funds ConfiKids Inc ↗
- Who funds MARILYN RODMAN THEATRE FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds JOHN ANDREW MAZIE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROWEST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 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 · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA
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 Rodman For Kids 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.
- Autism Services Association Inc — 96% of income from government
- The Key Program Incorporated — 86% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc — 41% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Family Nurturing Center Rogue Valley Children's Relief Nursery — 38% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 33% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston String Academy Inc — 3% of income from government
- Children's Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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.