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South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc at a glance

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South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc

To disburse funds to non-profit organizations for residents of south boston, ma

$337k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$39k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$249kRecreation & Sports$215kHuman Services$171kYouth Development$155kEducation$86kArts & Culture$75kMembership Benefit$39kReligion$36kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $329,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $336,800 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $7,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $302k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$446k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF BOSTON$15,000
FORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY$15,000
SOUTH BOSTON YOUTH HOCKEY ASSOCIATION$15,000
EDGERLEY FAMILY SOUTH BOSTON CLUB$15,000
JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM$15,000
SOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL$12,500
SOUTH BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS$12,500
SOUTH BOSTON COLLABORATIVE CENTER$12,500
GATE OF HEAVEN CYO$12,000
FOURTH PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $25k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM INC: $20k → 16%SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $15k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $15k → 16%ABCD SOUTH BOSTON HEAD START: $12k → 16%ABCD Headstart Program: $12k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $10k → 16%ABCD SOUTH BOSTON HEAD START: $6k → 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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$881k · 23 repeat orgs$217k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
8

Total granted

$881k
$91k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+11%

Still filing today

78%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’23’24
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • SB
    SOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $90k · revenue +122%
  • HM
    HARRY MCDONOUGH SAILING CENTER INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $73k · revenue +87% · 26% of their budget
  • GF
    GAVIN FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • LC
    LABOURE CENTER
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TC
    TYNAN COMMUNITY CENTER
    one grant, 2018 · $12k
  • SB
    So Boston Neighborhood House for So Boston Youth Hockey
    one grant, 2017 · $12k
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
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
2
Historic Boston Incorporated
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3
Vine Street Community Center Counci

Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA

Community Improvement
4
Boston Youth Sanctuary Inc
Youth Development
5
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition

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

Community Improvement
6
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
—
7
Boston Portuguese Festival

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Center for Biblical Counseling
Philanthropy
9
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
10
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Boston Banglaaid Inc

charitable, educational, and social welfare services.

Arts & Culture
12
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Boston Action Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
21/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INC: $42,000 · OtherJAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INCGATE OF HEAVEN CYO: $42,000 · OtherGATE OF HEAVEN CYOCATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTER: $40,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES LABOURE CENTERFOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES INC: $38,000 · OtherFOUNDATION FOR BOSTON CENTERS FOR YOUTH & FAMILIES…Fourth Presbyterian Church: $36,000 · OtherFourth Presbyterian ChurchCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $30,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF B…LABOURE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherMedicine Wheel Production: $22,000 · OtherST PETER ACADEMY INC: $34,000 · OtherST PETER ACADEMY INCMICHAEL J PERKINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 67 INC: $38,800 · OtherMICHAEL J PERKINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 67 INCALLIED WAR VETERANS COUNCIL OF SOUTH BOSTON INC: $17,500 · Other+12 more: $127,500 · Other+12 moreSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $90,000 · Human ServicesSOUTH BOSTON NEIG…Julies Family Learning Program Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesJulies Family Lea…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON…SOUTH BOSTON COLLABORATIVE CENTER INC: $51,700 · HealthSOUTH BOSTO…SOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL INC: $31,300 · HealthSOUTH BOSTO…South Boston Community Health Center In: $31,000 · HealthSouth Bosto…GAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $68,000 · PhilanthropyGAVIN FOUND…SOUTH BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS CORPORATION: $30,225 · PhilanthropySOUTH BOSTO…BEACON COMMUNITIES CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBEACON COMM…HARRY MCDONOUGH SAILING CENTER INC: $72,594 · Recreation & SportsHARRY MCDO…South Boston Youth Hockey Association Inc: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsSouth Bost…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentFORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $42,500 · Arts & CultureARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$492,800Human Services$165,000Health$114,000Philanthropy$108,225Recreation & Sports$102,594Youth Development$63,000Arts & Culture$52,500

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 budgetSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $90,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetHARRY MCDONOUGH SAILING CENTER INC: $72,594 over 4y, 26% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $68,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON COLLABORATIVE CENTER INC: $51,700 over 3y, 9.0% of budgetJulies Family Learning Program Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetFORT POINT ARTS COMMUNITY INC: $42,500 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetJAMES F CONDON SCHOOL COUNCIL INC: $42,000 over 3y, 22% of budgetMICHAEL J PERKINS AMERICAN LEGION POST 67 INC: $38,800 over 1y, 31% of budgetST PETER ACADEMY INC: $34,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON ACTION COUNCIL INC: $31,300 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSouth Boston Community Health Center In: $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON SPECIAL KIDS & YOUNG ADULTS CORPORATION: $30,225 over 3y, 13% of budgetSouth Boston Youth Hockey Association Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetALLIED WAR VETERANS COUNCIL OF SOUTH BOSTON INC: $17,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetNOTRE DAME EDUCATION CENTER INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetARTS & BUSINESS COUNCIL OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBEACON COMMUNITIES CHARITABLE FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSOUTH BOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Perry Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 4.4% 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Dedham Institution fo…Suffolk Cares Charita…Mass General Brigham …Highland Street Conne…United Way Of Massach…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA17.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to South Boston Community Development Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 38 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.

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