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Social Venture Partners Boston Inc
Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social impact.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDEN | $25,500 |
| BIKES NOT BOMBS INC | $25,000 |
| LEADERSHIP BRAINERY INC | $25,000 |
| STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH | $25,000 |
| BREAKTIME UNITED INC | $25,000 |
| ABOUT FRESH | $18,750 |
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 (FY17–22, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
12 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2022, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- BCBOSTON CASA INC3× · 2018–2020 · $99k · revenue +76%
- VLVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC3× · 2018–2020 · $75k · revenue +179%
- FFFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC3× · 2019–2021 · $75k · revenue +175%
Funded once
- SLSILVER LINING MENTORING INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +148%
- TBTHE BOTTOM LINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $17k · revenue +69%
- FUFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATEDgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +301%
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.
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
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…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Minds matter connects driven and determined students from low-income families with the people, preparation, and possibilities to succeed in college, create their future, and change the world.
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Familylinks is one of the pittsburgh area's largest and most comprehensive human service providers. serving the most vulnerable members of our community, familylinks provides services in mental health, substance use, service coordination,…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Alternatives, inc.'s mission is to facilitate personal development,strengthen family relationships and enhance the community's well being. serving over 3,000 youth and families annually, the organization offers a range of counseling and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Empowered and Dedicated to Edify the Nation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 BOSTON CASA INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds STRATEGIES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds UNION CAPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
- Who funds ABOUT FRESH INC ↗
- Who funds Leadership Brainery Inc ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERED AND DEDICATED TO EDIFY THE NATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
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: 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
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 Venture Partners Boston 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.
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- Strategies for Youth — 21% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% 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.