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Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UPSTREAM POLICY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC | $5,000 |
| INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES | $3,000 |
| BOSTON AREA GLEANERS | $2,000 |
| MASSRECYCLE | $1,000 |
| RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION | $500 |
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 (FY21–25, $56k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- HGHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +15%
- IHINCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +42%
VINFEN CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- UUPSTREAMone grant, 2021 · $1k
- FHFIDELITY HOUSE CRCone grant, 2021 · $1k
- CFCENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +59%
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.
The Organization's mission is to build pathways that help individuals pursue their goals through employment, career development, and community support programs.
Collecting and warehousing household goods for distribution and delivery to poor, needy or distressed individuals and families in need of financial assistance, in cooperation with and/or upon referral by charitable and other organizations…
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.
Spoonfuls is an organization that facilitates the recovery and distribution of healthy, perishable food that would otherwise be discarded. spoonfuls works efficiently to deliver this food directly to the community organizations and…
To make climate science and clean energy understandable and actionable for everyone. climable does this by organizing community-based clean energy accessibility programs, developing materials, teaching climate programming, and facilitating…
We Dont Waste increases food access and protects the planet by rescuing and repurposing food, while educating and advocating to increase food security and decrease food waste.
Green Cambridge strives to create a more sustainable city protect the environment and educate youth and adults about the importance of environmental issue.
Emerge enterprises, inc. operates sustainable social enterprises that empower people facing employment barriers to re-enter the workforce and achieve life-long success within their communities.
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,…
Enables both small rural and large urban communities to manage their own recycling programs.
Second Chances puts donated clothing to work for our community, diverting clothing, shoes, and accessories from local landfills while helping our neighbors in need take their first steps toward brighter futures.
Assist people with disabilities
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Household Goods Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ashland Farmers Market. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 15 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 Upstream Policy Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds INCOMPASS HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VINFEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH START FURNITURE BANK INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MASS RECYCLE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECOTECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds STOW CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ASHLAND FARMERS MARKET ↗
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: Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Social Catalysts Charitable Foundat 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.
- Incompass Human Services Inc — 94% of income from government
- Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ashland Farmers Market — 18% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Fresh Start Furniture Bank Inc — 12% of income from government
- Center for Ecotechnology Inc — 9% 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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