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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.

$140k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$672kHealth$194kYouth Development$165kPhilanthropy$108kRecreation & Sports$88kInternational$47kHuman Services$38kEmployment$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $44,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $139,678 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $95,178 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $27k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$523k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $8k → 10%HOME BASE INC: $10k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
MA
IA
CT
CA
CO
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 15 repeat orgs$195k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

$1.2M
$189k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+36%

Still filing today

93%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalEmploymentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • RU
    RSM US FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $602k · revenue +67%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    3× · 2017–2021 · $80k · revenue +54%
  • TF
    THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $55k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $33k · revenue -100%
  • THE LENNY ZAKIM FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -36%
  • TK
    THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -4%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
4
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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7
The Boston Children's School Inc

To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

Education
8
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc

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…

Health
9
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

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…

Health
10
Massachusetts Advocates for Children Inc

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…

Civil Rights
11
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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12
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores; 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.
04the grantee network

33 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/33
Grantees still filing
24/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RSM US FOUNDATION: $602,419 · EducationRSM US FOUNDATIONTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $55,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC+1 more: $7,500 · EducationNORTHEAST ARC INC: $147,650 · OtherNORTHEAST ARC INCCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $53,500 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR …JOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $27,500 · OtherJOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE …THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC: $14,500 · OtherHARVARD-KENT LEADERSHIP & PARTNERSHIP INC: $13,125 · OtherTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $25,000 · OtherTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUNDCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $23,750 · OtherCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD …+9 more: $69,400 · Other+9 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $79,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIR…America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $21,500 · Youth DevelopmentAmerica Sc…PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $17,500 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS …JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $32,500 · PhilanthropyJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $29,225 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $18,000 · InternationalDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,250 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation: $12,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,500 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $6,000 · HealthJB'S KEYS TO DMD INC: $6,000 · HealthSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $43,737 · Recreation & Sports
Education$664,919Other$374,425Youth Development$131,000Philanthropy$75,500International$47,225Health$46,750Recreation & Sports$43,737

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRSM US FOUNDATION: $602,419 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $147,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $79,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $53,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $43,737 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $43,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $29,225 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY FAMILY SERVICE CENTER INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $23,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $21,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $18,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC: $14,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $13,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY OF CPA'S INC: $11,150 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOME BASE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $9,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetJB'S KEYS TO DMD INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Eastern Bank Foundati…Suffolk Cares Charita…Rsm US FoundationRockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…The Cabot Family Char…Mass General Brigham …Harvard Pilgrim Healt…American Tower Corpor…
Boston Foundation IncMA28.1× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rsm Boston Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rsm Boston Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Rsm Boston Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 34 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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