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Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$399k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
16
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
11%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEmploymentFood & NutritionPhilanthropyEnvironmentCivil RightsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving16$399k6%
FY202418$434k11%
FY202319$449k16%
FY202218$404k6%
FY202122$393k18%
FY202018$348k17%
FY201919$377k11%
FY201817$325k12%
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$1.1MCommunity Improvement$624kHousing & Shelter$505kFood & Nutrition$400kHealth$245kEmployment$240kCrime & Legal$150kCivil Rights$30kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($627k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc: $345,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetFriendshipworks Inc: $290,000 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetAction Inc: $283,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLower Cape Outreach Councilinc: $275,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetHomeless Prevention Council Inc: $250,000 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetWellspring House Inc: $220,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetImmigrants' Assistance Center Inc: $210,000 over 9y, 5.7% of budgetLower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation: $135,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Boston Legal Services Inc: $100,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood of Affordable Housing Inc: $90,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetJustice at Work Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetPeople Acting in Community Endeavors Inc: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSeniorcare Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCoastal Foodshed: $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetProject Citizenship Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Family Pantry of Cape Cod Corp: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetElder Services of Cape Cod and the Islands Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentro Comunitario de Trabajadores Incorporated: $20,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPositive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSouth Shore Peer Recovery Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetPhilanthropy Massachusetts Inc: $13,530 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCape Cod Times Neighbors Fund Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGrantmakers in Aging Inc: $5,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation IncMA29.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Pierce Katharine C Uw · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates

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.

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About Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc

How much does Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc give?
Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc reported 16 grants totaling $399,430 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Community Improvement (18%), Housing & Shelter (15%).
Who are Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc ($345k), Friendshipworks Inc ($290k), Action Inc ($284k).
Does Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc based?
Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc is based in MA.

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 35 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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