· Public charity
Stratford Foundation Inc
To be a valuable resource for the community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 9 grants below total $300,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $435,335 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,335 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Friendly House | $40,000 |
| Julie's Family Learning | $40,000 |
| Nashoba Learning Group | $40,000 |
| Mujeres Unidas Avanzando | $40,000 |
| Leap for Education | $35,000 |
| All Dorchester Sports & Leadership | $35,000 |
| Blessed Stephen Bellesini Academy | $30,000 |
| Bethany Hill Place | $20,000 |
| School on Wheels of MA | $20,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $235k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
10 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NLNASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC5× · 2021–2025 · $195k · revenue +32%
- BHBETHANY HILL PLACE5× · 2021–2025 · $178k · revenue +11%
- MUMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- VEVarious exempt orgs - see attone grant, 2017 · $50k
- CRCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INCone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
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…
To promote adult literacy by providing tutors.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Daycare services
To create an inclusive community of life-long learners in which each individual is valued and respected. our charge, then, is to strengthen minds, ensure equity, and honor individuality.
development of Latin American community
The Organizations mission to to provide after school care through programs for students in a setting where children of different ages, interests and abilities can grow and learn.
To Provide the necessary environment to students with an introduction to the formal classroom setting and to commence the nurturing of the socialization skills required to successfully transition to the public school setting.
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
To provide education to nursery school children.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blessed Stephen Bellesini Osa 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.
9 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. 9 of the 12 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 NASHOBA LEARNING GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BETHANY HILL PLACE ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Blessed Stephen Bellesini OSA Academy 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Wellington Management Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable 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 Stratford 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.
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 43% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 18% of income from government
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 16% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friendly House Inc — 3% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 1% 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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