· Private foundation
Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $4k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WELLSPRING HOUSE INC | $50,000 |
| HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL | $40,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL INC | $40,000 |
| FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC | $35,000 |
| IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC | $30,000 |
| ACTION INC | $30,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $30,000 |
| COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $25,000 |
| HEARTH INC | $25,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR | $25,000 |
| ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS | $25,000 |
| LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP DBA COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNER | $15,000 |
| PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC | $15,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC | $10,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS | $2,730 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 58% 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $345k · revenue +61%- FIFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $290k · revenue +37%
ACTION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $284k · revenue +212%
Funded once
- CCCAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +33%
CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%- PAPositive Action Against Chemical Addiction Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +88%
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.
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
Provide low income elderly housing.
The organization is responsible for overseeing all publicly funded vocational education and training programs for the cape cod, martha's vineyard, and nantucket areas.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
To achieve equal justice for the poor and disadvantaged through community based legal advocacy.
To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.
To strengthen and connect the statewide network of community action agencies and collectively advocate for an end to poverty.
To provide public broadcasting to lower cape cod massachusetts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is South Shore Peer Recovery 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 35 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 THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE ACTING IN COMMUNITY ENDEAVORS INC ↗
- Who funds SENIORCARE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD COMMERCIAL FISHERMEN'S ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP ↗
- Who funds ELDER SERVICES OF CAPE COD AND THE ISLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO COMUNITARIO DE TRABAJADORES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Positive Action Against Chemical Addiction Inc ↗
- Who funds South Shore Peer Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS IN AGING 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: 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
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 Sailors' Snug Harbor of Boston 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.
- Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
- South Shore Peer Recovery Inc — 71% of income from government
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- Cape Cod Commercial Fishermen's Alliance Inc — 5% of income from government
- Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
- People Acting in Community Endeavors Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work 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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