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Samantha Becky Mark Foundation at a glance

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Samantha Becky Mark Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$375k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Youth Development$21MCommunity Improvement$100kEducation$36kHealth$32kFood & Nutrition$25kHousing & Shelter$5kHuman Services$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$350,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE POSSIBLE ZONE$350,000
FAMILY NUTURING CENTER OF MA$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%UNION CAPITAL BOSTON: $5k → 16%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$21M · 4 repeat orgs$122k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +273% since the first grant, against +104% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
12

Total granted

$21M
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+273%
+104%

Still filing today

75%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHealthScience & TechSocial ScienceHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TP
    THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $21M · revenue +273% · 81% of their budget
  • GF
    GREENLIGHT FUND INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $90k · revenue +46%
  • LS
    LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $21k · revenue +739%

Funded once

  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +42%
  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +129%
  • JF
    JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -20%
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
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
2
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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3
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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4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
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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6
Boston Medical Center Health Plan Inc

The corporation is organized and operates as a nonprofit corporation exclusively for the benefit of and to support boston medical center corporation and to provide access to effective, efficient medical care among low income, underserved,…

Health
7
Up Education Network

The principal intent of the organization is to conduct activities to advance education reform in public schools, including public charter schools. specifically, the organization will engage in activities to support and transform…

Education
8
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
9
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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10
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…

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11
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
12
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives Inc

Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sling Health. 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

13 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. 13 of the 17 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $21,219,173 · EducationTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC+2 more: $35,000 · EducationIndividual grant recipient: $145,000 · OtherFAMILY NUTURING CENTER OF MA: $25,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $90,000 · Community ImprovementTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · Community ImprovementURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,000 · Community ImprovementLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $20,500 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthSLING HEALTH: $5,000 · Science & TechBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 · Social ScienceUNION CAPITAL INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Education$21,254,173Other$197,000Community Improvement$105,000Health$25,500Science & Tech$5,000Social Science$5,000Human Services$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE POSSIBLE PROJECT INC: $21,219,173 over 6y, 81% of budgetGREENLIGHT FUND INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $20,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Barr FoundationCummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationThe Blackbaud Giving …Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Samantha Becky Mark Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Samantha Becky Mark Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • The Hyde Square Task Force Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Urban Edge Housing Corporation: 2% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.

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 17 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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