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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 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, FY2020 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its 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
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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%
+44%

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
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

  • 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%
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 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
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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

42 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/42
Grantees still filing
28/42
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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
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.

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's 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
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 36 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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