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Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc

Our mission is to restore and protect boston harbor, massachusetts bay and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.

$271k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$43kCivil Rights$13kArts & Culture$12kEducation$7kEnvironment$6kHousing & Shelter$6kHealth$6k
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 12 grants below total $73,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $271,350 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $197,850 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.
$6,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PIERS PARK SAILING CENTER$7,000
RESIST INC (MUTUAL AID EASTIE)$6,500
STIGGITYSTACKZ$6,500
FESTIVAL PUERTORRIQUENO DE MASSACHUSETTS INC$6,000
NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC (NOAH)$6,000
ABILITIES DANCE BOSTON$6,000
LITEWORK EVENTS$6,000
GNOME SURF$6,000
SHALUPE COMMUNITY ALLIANCE$6,000
LOVE YOUR MAGIC INC$6,000
LYNN MUSIC FOUNDATION$6,000
ACCESS CULTURE$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 (FY24–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AASHKA DANCE COMPANY: $6k → 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.

27%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$46k · 3 repeat orgs$121k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

$46k
$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
Arts & CultureRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationEnvironmentHuman 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

  • RI
    RESIST INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc
    2× · 2024–2025 · $14k · revenue +61%
  • NO
    NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CO
    CITY OF REVERE
    one grant, 2024 · $9k
  • MO
    MEN OF MELANIN MAGIC LLC
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • CA
    CARIBBEAN AMERICAN CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON
    one grant, 2023 · $7k
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
Urbanity Dance Inc

Urbanity dance exists to engage, inspire, and empower individuals and communities through the art of dance and movement. through its three south end studios and work in the community, urbanity is proud to provide high quality dance…

Arts & Culture
2
Departure Arts Inc

Performing and visual arts

Arts & Culture
3
Danceast Collective

To cultivate a community of students, artists, and audiences by offering high-quality and accessible dance education, creation, performance, and engagement opportunities.

Arts & Culture
4
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
5
Latina Dance Project Inc

The Latina Dance Project, a collaborative ensemble of multidisciplinary artists, explores through performances--physical, musical, and visual--controversial issues impacting the global community. The companys projects create experiences…

Arts & Culture
6
Ritmos Dance Studio Inc

Since being established in 2002 the Ritmos mission has been to preserve Latin American culture through dance across the New England area Ritmos dancers range in ages 4-20 learn both folkloric and modern styles of Latin dance from Puerto…

Arts & Culture
7
Front Porch Arts Collective of Boston Inc

The porch is a black theatre company committed to advancing racial equity in boston through theatre.

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Dance Theater

Building and sustaining a contemporary dance company that will perform dance pieces, provide education, as well as mentor dancers and choreographers.

Arts & Culture
9
Boston Bhangra Inc

Promote cultural awareness and mentorship for children. This happens through different activities that we partake in, including teaching classes, doing performances and hosting events.

Arts & Culture
10
City Ballet of Boston Inc

City Ballet of Boston uses the power of dance to breakdown barriers among people and create a better community.

Arts & Culture
11
World Music Inc

The presentation of a multi-disciplinary and culturally diverse performing arts series that connects performing artists from many cultures and disciplines with the diverse communities of greater Boston.

Arts & Culture
12
Boston Art Review Inc

Arts Programming

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Resist Inc; the most unlike its peers is Access Culture 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
6/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESIST INC: $19,500 · OtherRESIST INCCITY OF REVERE: $9,000 · OtherCITY OF REVEREMEN OF MELANIN MAGIC LLC: $8,000 · OtherMEN OF MELANIN MAGIC LLCCARIBBEAN AMERICAN CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON: $7,000 · OtherCARIBBEAN AMERICAN CARNIVAL ASSOCIATION OF BOSTONNORTH SHORE JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATION INC: $6,500 · OtherNORTH SHORE JUNETEENTH ASSOCIATION INCSTIGGITYSTACKZ WORLDWIDE INC: $6,500 · OtherSTIGGITYSTACKZ WORLDWIDE INCLITEWORK EVENTS: $6,000 · OtherLITEWORK EVENTSDADDY & ME INCORPORATED: $6,000 · OtherDADDY & ME INCORPORATEDTRIANGLE INC: $5,500 · OtherTRIANGLE INCSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $6,000 · OtherSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INCAASHKA COMPANY: $6,000 · OtherAASHKA COMPANYSHALUPE FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherSHALUPE FOUNDATIONLynn Music Foundation Inc: $6,000 · Arts & CultureLynn Music Found…ABILITIES DANCE INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureABILITIES DANCE …FESTIVAL PUERTORIQUENO DE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFESTIVAL PUERTOR…ACCESS CULTURE: $5,500 · Arts & CultureACCESS CULTUREPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $14,000 · Recreation & SportsPiers Park Sa…STONEWALL SPORTS INC: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsSTONEWALL SPO…NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $12,000 · Housing & ShelterREVERE BEACH PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,000 · EducationGNOME INC: $6,000 · HealthLOVE YOUR MAGIC INC: $6,000 · Youth Development
Other$92,000Arts & Culture$23,500Recreation & Sports$19,500Housing & Shelter$12,000Education$7,000Health$6,000Youth Development$6,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRESIST INC: $19,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetREVERE BEACH PARTNERSHIP INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLOVE YOUR MAGIC INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAASHKA COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFESTIVAL PUERTORIQUENO DE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTRIANGLE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTONEWALL SPORTS INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS CULTURE: $5,500 over 1y, 11% 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 IncAmazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA13× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · 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 Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Triangle Inc: 90% of income from government
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Revere Beach Partnership Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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