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Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$258k
Granted FY2025still arriving
69
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$66k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$527kHealth$358kHousing & Shelter$233kAnimals$203kArts & Culture$88kHuman Services$87kInternational$80kFood & Nutrition$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 69 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k60 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $131k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
$1,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY$66,000
ROSIE'S PLACE$40,000
MASS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY$22,500
PINE STREET INN$15,000
MSPCA$12,500
NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS$11,000
FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION$10,000
THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MA$10,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$10,000
ST LAWRENCE CHURCH$6,500
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON$5,000
HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
BOCA REGIONAL HOSPITAL$3,000
FOSTER PARROTS$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $79k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $500 → 11%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $1k → 16%HOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD: $200 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $15k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $2k → 16%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $1k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
SD
CT
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
KS
AR
TN
DC
GA
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.0M · 72 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +62% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

72 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
4

Total granted

$2.0M
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+14%

Still filing today

58%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsInternationalEducationEnvironmentOther
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

  • SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $518k · revenue +20%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +75%
  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    9× · 2017–2025 · $181k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOSTON FOUNDATION MASS UNITED FOR PUERTO RICO
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $1k
  • Mercy Ships International
    one grant, 2024 · $100 · revenue -13%
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
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
2
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
3
Rhode Island Hospital

As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.

Health
4
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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5
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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6
Associated Physicians of Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians At Bidmc Inc

The mission of associated physicians of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. d/b/a longwood specialty physicians (lsp) is to provide world class clinical care and medical instruction and to…

Health
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
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
9
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
10
Boston Medical Center Corporation

Boston medical center's mission is to provide consistently excellent and accessible health services to all in need of care regardless of status and ability to pay.

Health
11
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
12
Boston Medical Center-Brighton Corporation

To consistently provide excellent and accessible health care services to all in need of care, regardless of status or ability to pay. the corporation is committed to the urban population, to vulnerable populations within the community…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Marathon Daffodils 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

47 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. 47 of the 80 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/47
Grantees still filing
40/47
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $518,000 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY+2 more: $2,900 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $262,500 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & E…FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $97,500 · HealthFAMILY REACH FOUNDATI…+5 more: $30,800 · Health+5 moreGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCROSIE'S PLACE - JRS FUND: $50,000 · OtherROSIE'S PLACE - JRS FUNDLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $49,000 · OtherLAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF …THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC: $46,000 · OtherTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INCPINE STREET INN INC: $40,500 · OtherPINE STREET INN INCBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $46,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON …+49 more: $234,050 · Other+49 moreMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $181,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSET…FOSTER PARROTS LTD: $25,000 · AnimalsFOSTER PARR…+4 more: $11,100 · AnimalsROSIE'S PLACE INC: $215,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLA…HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · InternationalHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $18,000 · InternationalCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $11,772 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 · International+2 more: $120 · InternationalNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $82,500 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $4,500 · Arts & Culture
Education$520,900Health$390,800Other$540,550Animals$217,100Housing & Shelter$215,000International$88,892Arts & Culture$87,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $518,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY: $262,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $215,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $181,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REACH FOUNDATION: $97,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $82,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $75,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC: $46,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $46,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $40,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER PARROTS LTD: $25,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetHEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMorgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBoca Raton Regional Hospital Inc: $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $12,050 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN INCORPORATED: $11,772 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $11,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $9,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $3,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOUR PAWS INTERNATIONAL INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMARATHON DAFFODILS INC: $2,250 over 2y, 15% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $1,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $1,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brookline Library Foundation Inc: $900 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICE STARS INC: $750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBrookline Police Mutual Aid Association: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Ships International: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $20 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REACH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER PARROTS LTD ↗
  • Who funds HEIFER PROJECT INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc ↗
  • Who funds Boca Raton Regional Hospital Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗

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…Amica Companies Found…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…The Pfizer Foundation…Verizon FoundationThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Blackbaud Giving …Raymond James Charita…Network for Good
Eastern Bank FoundationMA18.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Network for Good

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 Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sawyer Parks Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Roxbury Stone House Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc: 13% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
  • National Braille Press Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 80 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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The camps
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By state
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