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Social Innovation Forum Inc

The social innovation forum (sif) accelerates positive social change by connecting small- to medium-sized community-led nonprofits with the resources, networks, and knowledge they need to achieve greater social impact.

$479k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Youth Development$182kHousing & Shelter$132kScience & Tech$99kHealth$86kEnvironment$76kEducation$70kPublic Benefit$66kCivil Rights$56kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k15 grants · $426k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
$35,750
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000$52,500
UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS$35,750
THE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM$35,750
CHICA PROJECT$35,750
RIA INC$35,750
GENUNITY$35,750
JUSTICE FOR HOUSING INC$35,750
LOWELL PARKS AND CONSERVATION TRUST$35,750
MISSIONSAFE$35,750
FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INC$20,000
LATINX COMMUNITY CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT INC$20,000
KIDS IN TECH INC$20,000
TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC$20,000
BEAT THE ODDS$20,000
BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALIAITION$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $36k → 11%UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $20k → 11%THE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM: $36k → 8%THE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM: $20k → 8%INTERSEMINARIAN PROJECT PLACE INC: $10k → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE: $10k → 16%FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INC: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$567k · 9 repeat orgs$330k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$567k
$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+40%

Still filing today

89%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureEmploymentOther

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

  • UI
    UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SE MA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +46%
  • GI
    GENUNITY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +56%
  • MA
    MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $56k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +59%
  • TL
    THE LOOP LAB INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • BAGLY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
2
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
3
The Upward Project

To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…

Education
4
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
5
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
6
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement
7
Historic Boston Incorporated
—
8
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
9
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
10
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
11
Digital Ready Inc

Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.

Education
12
The History Co-Lab Inc

Creating impactful learning for all learners in support of youth thriving

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynn Museum and Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyProfessional & Industry Ass…Community Arts CentersHealth Systems and PlansFraternal & Veterans Organi…Education Support Foundatio…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 12 years old; the field is 17. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%7%<5yr14%29%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%13%<5yr14%22%5–10yr20%31%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr13%4%35–55yr13%4%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 13% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
11%
2,433/21,690

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

42 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
27/42
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000 — $121,000 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $20,000 · OtherBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITIONBEAT THE ODDS INC — $20,000 · OtherBEAT THE ODDS INCMassachusetts Women of Color Network Inc — $20,000 · OtherMassachusetts Women of Color Network Inc+14 more — $140,000 · Other+14 moreTHE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC — $55,750 · Human ServicesTHE LATINO HEALTH IN…UNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SE MA — $55,750 · Human ServicesUNITED INTERFAITH AC…FAMILY INDEPENDENCE INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY INDEPENDENCE …IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FAMILY SER…TIDES CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERSEMINARIAN - PR…MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $55,750 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE A N…CHICA INC — $55,750 · Youth DevelopmentCHICA INCSISTERS UNCHAINED INC — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentSISTERS UNCHAIN…Justice For Housing Inc — $55,750 · Housing & ShelterJustice For H…RIA Inc — $55,750 · Housing & ShelterRIA IncTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC — $20,000 · EducationLatinx Community Center For Empowerment LCCEInc — $20,000 · EducationKIDS IN TECH INC — $20,000 · EducationThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $10,000 · EducationGENUNITY INC — $55,750 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $55,750 · Environment
Other$321,000Human Services$161,500Youth Development$121,500Housing & Shelter$111,500Education$70,000Community Improvement$65,750Environment$55,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJustice For Housing Inc — $55,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LATINO HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM INC — $55,750 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetUNITED INTERFAITH ACTION OF SE MA — $55,750 over 2y, 12% of budgetGENUNITY INC — $55,750 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $55,750 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $55,750 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetRIA Inc — $55,750 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCHICA INC — $55,750 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetFAMILY INDEPENDENCE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLatinx Community Center For Empowerment LCCEInc — $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetMassachusetts Women of Color Network Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetKIDS IN TECH INC — $20,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBEAT THE ODDS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBAGLY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR MASSACHUSETTS EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSISTERS UNCHAINED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE 1647 INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWaterfront Historic Area League of New Bedford Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERSEMINARIAN - PROJECT PLACE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetORIGINATION INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEveryday Boston Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budget
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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…The Beker FoundationThe Cabot Family Char…Health Resources in A…The New Commonwealth …Bushrod H Campbell & …Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…The John H and H Naom…
Boston Foundation IncMA55.6× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Beker Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Health Resources in Action Inc · The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde 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 Innovation Forum Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Family Independence Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
  • Interseminarian - Project Place Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Beat the Odds Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $348k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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