· Public charity
Rsm Boston Foundation Inc
The rsm boston foundation ("foundation") inspires employees of rsm us llp to become involved in giving back to communities and causes that they care about; and, in so doing, to support one another and to build a stronger team.
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 5 grants below total $44,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $139,678 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,178 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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC | $16,500 |
| THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| BOSTON SCORES | $6,500 |
| JB'S KEYS TO DMD INC | $6,000 |
| NORTHEAST ARC INC | $5,500 |
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 (FY19–19, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- RURSM US FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2021 · $602k · revenue +67%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC3× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +54%
- TFTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -100%
THE LENNY ZAKIM FUNDone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -36%- TKTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -4%
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 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.
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…
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
Massachusetts advocates for children, inc. ("mac") is a non-profit organization dedicated to removing barriers to educational and life opportunities for children and youth. we do so by advocating for and partnering with students and…
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…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores and the most unlike its peers is South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation 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 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 34 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 RSM US FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HARVARD-KENT LEADERSHIP & PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF CPA'S INC ↗
- Who funds HOME BASE INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE BANK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Memorial Hall Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds JB'S KEYS TO DMD INC ↗
- Who funds MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsm US Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation 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 Rsm Boston Foundation 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.
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston 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
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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