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Sincere Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
33
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
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 2025.

Human Services$245kHousing & Shelter$243kFood & Nutrition$195kYouth Development$115kCrime & Legal$60kEnvironment$40kEmployment$23kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k25 grants · $335k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CARE CENTER$25,000
FAMILYAID BOSTON INC$25,000
DIGNITY MATTERS$20,000
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC$20,000
LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL$20,000
METROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES$15,000
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC$15,000
ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC$15,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC$15,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST$12,500
ROOT NS INC$12,500
ROSIE'S PLACE INC$10,000
WE CAN$10,000
PROJECT BREAD - THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC$10,000
CITIZENS INN$10,000
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 (FY23–25, $285k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $15k → 7%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $20k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 8%The Treehouse Foundation: $7k → 12%Interfaith Social Services: $10k → 7%Homeless Prevention Council: $10k → 8%RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%Homeless Prevention Council: $10k → 8%DIGNITY MATTERS: $20k → 11%WE CAN: $10k → 8%Household Goods Inc: $10k → 8%Dignity Matters Inc: $20k → 11%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $10k → 8%OUR NEIGHBORS' TABLE: $10k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST: $13k → 8%Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: $15k → 16%HOUSING FAMILIES: $10k → 8%Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: $10k → 16%Somerville Homeless Coalition: $10k → 8%VICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $10k → 16%One Family Inc: $25k → 16%One Family Inc: $15k → 16%Catie's Closet: $10k → 8%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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$533k · 20 repeat orgs$402k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
13

Total granted

$533k
$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEducationOther
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

  • S
    SPOONFULS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +19%
  • BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $45k · revenue +18%
  • FB
    FAMILYAID BOSTON INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $35k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • HA
    HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • BG
    Boys Girls Clubs of Dorchester
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
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 Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
2
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
3
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
4
House of Hope Housing Inc

To promote improved social and economic conditions of families who are or who have recently been homeless; to promote, develop, and manage affordable housing for families and to assist in carrying out the charitable purposes of house of…

Housing & Shelter
5
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
6
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
7
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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8
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
9
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
10
Horizons for Homeless Children

Hhc's mission is to improve the lives of homeless children and their families. hhc provides homeless children in massachusetts with the nurturing, stimulation and opportunities for early education and play that all children need to learn…

Human Services
11
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
12
Berkshire Food Project Inc

To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is One Family Inc; the most unlike its peers is Abby Kelley Foster House 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

48 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. 48 of the 57 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
22/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dignity Matters Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters IncONE FAMILY INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesONE FAMILY INCINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INCCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INCSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INCHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INCHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesHOUSEHOLD GOODS INCLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC: $20,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINCJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF METROWEST INC: $12,500 · Human Services+9 more: $82,000 · Human Services+9 moreFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $35,000 · OtherFAMILYAID BOSTON INCBoys Girls Club of Metrowest: $25,000 · OtherBoys Girls Club of MetrowestTHE CARE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherTHE CARE CENTERMETROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES INC DBA FRAMINGHAM COURT MEDIATION SERVICES: $25,000 · OtherMETROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES INC …Family Promise North Shore: $20,000 · OtherFamily Promise North ShoreNECAT: $20,000 · OtherNECATThe Haven Project Inc: $18,000 · OtherThe Haven Project IncBoys Girls Clubs of Dorchester: $15,000 · OtherBoys Girls Clubs of DorchesterOverlook Farm: $10,000 · OtherA Place To Turn Inc: $10,000 · OtherGirls Incorperated of Lynn: $10,000 · OtherThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $10,000 · OtherJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $10,000 · OtherOUT METROWEST INC: $10,000 · OtherBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $10,000 · Other+5 more: $25,000 · Other+5 moreSPOONFULS: $45,000 · Food & NutritionSPOONFULSBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $45,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA GLEANERS I…PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $25,000 · Food & NutritionPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK…BERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INCOPEN TABLE INC: $20,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INCROOT NS INC: $12,500 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INCDIGGER FOODS INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionDIGGER FOODS INC+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterHALEY HOU…ABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterABBY KELL…CITIZENS INN INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS …CONSTRUCT INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCONSTRUCT…ROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S P…LYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterLYNN SHEL…HOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentElevate Youth Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWYERS CLEARINGHOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS INC: $25,000 · Crime & LegalREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $20,000 · Environment
Human Services$304,500Other$278,000Food & Nutrition$182,500Housing & Shelter$75,000Youth Development$50,000Crime & Legal$25,000Environment$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPOONFULS: $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDignity Matters Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetONE FAMILY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS CLEARINGHOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMETROWEST MEDIATION SERVICES INC DBA FRAMINGHAM COURT MEDIATION SERVICES: $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBERKSHIRES BOUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetREGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc: $18,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetABBY KELLEY FOSTER HOUSE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOUSING FAMILIES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetElevate Youth Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONSTRUCT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDIGGER FOODS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVICTIM RIGHTS LAW CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJUST-A-START CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA Place To Turn Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOUT METROWEST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TREEHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLYNN SHELTER ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETHANY HILL PLACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBAGLY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust Charit…Community Foundation …Cambridge Savings Cha…Massachusetts Bankers…Middlesex Savings Cha…Adelard & Valeda Roy …Agnes M Lindsay TrustUnited Way Of Massach…Essex County Communit…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA56.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Victim Rights Law Center Inc: 89% of income from government
  • Metrowest Mediation Services Inc Dba Framingham Court Mediation Services: 47% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc: 31% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • The Treehouse Foundation Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Just-a-Start Corporation: 16% of income from government
  • Digger Foods Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Lynn Shelter Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Out Metrowest Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Open Table Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Regional Environmental Council Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Construct Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Familyaid Boston Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
7report 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 57 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 endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home