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Social Venture Partners Boston Inc

Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area non-profits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these non-profits to deliver meaningful social impact. In its combination of funding and volunteering, svp boston provides a unique, targeted,…

$147k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
6
Organizations funded FY2022
33%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2022
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$25,500
Organizations funded a year
5 to 7
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$67k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 33% of the organizations Social Venture Partners Boston Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentEducationEmploymentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20226$144k33%
FY20215$91k40%
FY20207$187k29%
FY20196$143k33%
FY20187$191k29%
FY20177$163kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Crime & Legal$241kYouth Development$183kFood & Nutrition$125kHuman Services$119kEnvironment$99kPublic Benefit$75kEmployment$75kEducation$52kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Enroot$99,0004n/a
Boston Casa Inc$99,00034%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$91,00031%
Veterans Legal Services Inc$75,00034%
Food for Free Committee Inc$75,00031%
Strategies for Youth$75,00035%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$66,50020%
Union Capital Inc$58,00035%
Families First Parenting Program Inc$50,50023%
Bikes Not Bombs Inc$50,00021%
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All grantees of Social Venture Partners Boston Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Enroot$99,0004n/a
Boston Casa Inc$99,00034%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$91,00031%
Veterans Legal Services Inc$75,00034%
Food for Free Committee Inc$75,00031%
Strategies for Youth$75,00035%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$66,50020%
Union Capital Inc$58,00035%
Families First Parenting Program Inc$50,50023%
Bikes Not Bombs Inc$50,00021%
About Fresh Inc$50,00031%
Leadership Brainery Inc$35,00025%
Empowered and Dedicated to Edify the Nation Inc$25,50018%
Breaktime United Inc$25,00011%
Silver Lining Mentoring Inc$17,00011%
The Bottom Line Inc$17,00010%
Fathers Uplift Incorporated$10,00011%

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Social Venture Partners Boston Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Casa Inc: $99,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTrinity Boston Connects Inc: $91,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVeterans Legal Services Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetFood for Free Committee Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetStrategies for Youth: $75,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetJustice Resource Institute Inc: $66,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Capital Inc: $58,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetFamilies First Parenting Program Inc: $50,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBikes Not Bombs Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAbout Fresh Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLeadership Brainery Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetEmpowered and Dedicated to Edify the Nation Inc: $25,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetBreaktime United Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSilver Lining Mentoring Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Bottom Line Inc: $17,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFathers Uplift Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 16.

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 IncMA24.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Yawkey Foundation II · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Eastern Bank Foundation · The New Commonwealth Racial Equity and Social Justice Fund Inc · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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.

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About Social Venture Partners Boston Inc

How much does Social Venture Partners Boston Inc give?
Social Venture Partners Boston Inc reported 6 grants totaling $146,750 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Social Venture Partners Boston Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (24%), Youth Development (18%), Food & Nutrition (13%).
Who are Social Venture Partners Boston Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Enroot ($99k), Boston Casa Inc ($99k), Trinity Boston Connects Inc ($91k).
Does Social Venture Partners Boston Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Social Venture Partners Boston Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
Where is Social Venture Partners Boston Inc based?
Social Venture Partners Boston Inc is based in MA.

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 18 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 2022, released 2022. 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 no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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