· Public charity
South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc
To disburse funds to non-profit organizations for residents of south boston, ma
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $329,300 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $336,800 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $302k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MICHAEL J PERKINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 67 | $38,800 |
| BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES | $38,000 |
| SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $25,000 |
| GAVIN FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| SOUTH BOSTON CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $16,000 |
| SOUTH BOSTON YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BOSTON | $15,000 |
| FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY | $15,000 |
| EDGERLEY FAMILY SOUTH BOSTON CLUB | $15,000 |
| JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM | $15,000 |
| SOUTH BOSTON COLLABORATIVE CENTER | $12,500 |
| SOUTH BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS | $12,500 |
| SOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL | $12,500 |
| GATE OF HEAVEN CYO | $12,000 |
| ANDREW SQUARE CIVIC ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $165k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +87% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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
- SBSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +122%
- HMHARRY MCDONOUGH SAILING CENTER INC4× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +87% · 26% of their budget
- GFGAVIN FOUNDATION INC5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +157%
Funded once
- LCLABOURE CENTERone grant, 2019 · $25k
- TCTYNAN COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2018 · $12k
- SBSo Boston Neighborhood House for So Boston Youth Hockeyone grant, 2017 · $12k
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.
Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA
To promote neighborhood stabilization in the four corners of Boston. The organization focuses its grass roots efforts and activities on adressing crime and safety issues
The purpose of the Boston Portuguese Festival is to promote the image of Portugal and the visibility of the Portuguese community and its ancestry in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to promote the education of the community regarding…
charitable, educational, and social welfare services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Boston Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is St Peter Academy 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 38 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 SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HARRY MCDONOUGH SAILING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON COLLABORATIVE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL J PERKINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 67 INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST PETER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds South Boston Community Health Center In ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds South Boston Youth Hockey Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIED WAR VETERANS COUNCIL OF SOUTH BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON COMMUNITIES CHARITABLE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds Friends of Perry Inc ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation 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 South Boston Community Development Foundation 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.
- South Boston Collaborative Center Inc — 41% of income from government
- Harry Mcdonough Sailing Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- South Boston Special Kids & Young Adults Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% 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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