· Private foundation
Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Clarke Schools for Hearing and Speech | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Struzz's Home Run | $2,000 |
| Arthur F Stearns Memorial Fund | $1,800 |
| Canton Youth Soccer Camp | $1,496 |
| Dean S Luce Elementary School | $1,000 |
| Bellingham Falcons Youth Football and Cheer | $250 |
| Kingston Youth Sports Organization | $250 |
| Waiting Animals Get Support | $250 |
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, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
67 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 64 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC2× · 2017–2019 · $28k · revenue +355%
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC3× · 2017–2019 · $25k · revenue +100%- TSTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC4× · 2017–2020 · $19k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- AFASSISTANCE FOR VARIOUS NEEDY FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $38k
- RCRFK CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPSone grant, 2019 · $25k
- DADON AND MARILYN RODMAN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $25k
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…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Helping adults and children with disabilities, (incl asd), become full participants in the community.
The base ball, inc. d/b/a the base is a not-for-profit organization working to shift the national mindset and re-imagine pathways to success for urban youth. founded in roxbury, ma, the base operates in boston and on the westside of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dothouse Health Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Christopher Catanese Childrens Foundation. 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 29 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 — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
103 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. 103 of the 316 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 Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds JOE ANDRUZZI FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HYANNIS ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DON RODMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds The Genesis Fund ↗
- Who funds MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER YOUTH SOCCER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF METRO SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds RB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM 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 · Rodman For Kids Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 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 Rodman Ford Sales Inc Charitable Trust 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.
- Norfolk Advocates for Children Inc — 100% of income from government
- Valuing Our Children Inc — 93% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Kennedy-Donovan Center Inc — 62% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Fallon Community Health Plan Inc — 58% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Ada Forsyth Institute Inc — 38% of income from government
- Aids Support Group of Cape Cod Inc — 33% of income from government
- Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring 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
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- Dothouse Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% 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
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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