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Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
71
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$392k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$9.4MEducation$5.1MYouth Development$3.9MPhilanthropy$3.2MArts & Culture$2.0MReligion$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 71 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $110k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $401k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+3 grants · $892k
$10,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$392,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$250,000
NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION$250,000
RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE$220,000
CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$200,000
WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC$200,000
SAINT CECILIA PARISH$150,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION$100,000
NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION$100,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$100,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION$100,000
BOSTON BRUINS FOUNDATION$100,000
COREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$51,000
MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC$50,000
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, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%WISH FOR WHEELS: $11k → 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $9k → 14%OLD COLONY YMCA: $15k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $10k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $10k → 8%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $25k → 17%OLD COLONY YMCA: $5k → 8%OLD COLONY YMCA: $5k → 8%ONE TREASURE ISLAND: $5k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $10k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%THE B FUND: $10k → 8%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $18k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $255k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $15k → 17%PINE STREET INN: $250k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $250k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $50k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10k → 17%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $5k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $10k → 16%ONE FAMILY INC: $5k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $10k → 16%GREATER BOSTON REAL ESTATE BOARD FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%GREATER BOSTON REAL ESTATE BOARD FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $100k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $25k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $25k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $50k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $25k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $25k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $10k → 16%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $5k → 16%JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER: $5k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS: $5k → 16%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER: $5k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $10k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
MI
NY
MA
SD
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$22M · 175 repeat orgs$7.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

175 repeat relationships: 44 still active in FY2024, 131 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

175
282

Total granted

$22M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+24%

Still filing today

70%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $399k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +229%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +91%
  • NH
    NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M
  • CC
    CAPE COD HEALTHCARE
    one grant, 2017 · $1.0M
  • BC
    Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -100%
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
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
2
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
5
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
9
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
Bmc Affiliated Physicians Inc

Boston university affiliated physicians, inc.'s (buap) primary mission is to provide health care services in a manner that promotes health for the benefit of the community, to perform medical and clinical research in the public interest,…

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12
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lenny Zakim Fund; the most unlike its peers is Grealish Boxing Club. 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

359 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 359 of the 496 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
75
Early backer (in before they grew)
342/359
Grantees still filing
242/359
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,235,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,070,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONCAPE COD HEALTHCARE: $1,000,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARESAINT CECILIA PARISH: $1,000,000 · OtherSAINT CECILIA PARISHCOREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION: $400,000 · Other+94 more: $6,184,973 · Other+94 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,640,000 · HealthChildren's Hospi…NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,420,500 · HealthNORTHWELL HEALTH…SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $250,000 · HealthSEMPER FI & AMER…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $195,000 · HealthCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $185,000 · Health+14 more: $752,100 · Health+14 moreNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UN…University of Notre Dame du Lac: $600,000 · EducationUniversity of N…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOL…Bowdoin College: $225,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeCURRY COLLEGE: $200,000 · EducationREGIS COLLEGE: $170,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE: $155,000 · Education+22 more: $951,470 · Education+22 moreCOREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $710,000 · PhilanthropyCOREY C GRI…Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $500,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Char…Boston Foundation Inc: $340,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Foun…UNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $307,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY …THE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MCCOURT…GAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 · PhilanthropyGAVIN FOUND…NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 · PhilanthropyNICK'S KIDS…JEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 · Philanthropy+9 more: $345,000 · Philanthropy+9 moreEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $675,000 · Arts & CultureEDWARD M …WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $600,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD TRA…NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $500,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBALLET TH…SHED NYC INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $370,000 · Arts & Culture+9 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,700,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $240,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $200,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentPINE STREET INN INC: $765,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $112,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $50,000 · Human Services+7 more: $201,500 · Human Services
Other$11,889,973Health$4,442,600Education$3,976,470Philanthropy$3,135,000Arts & Culture$2,595,000Youth Development$2,200,000Human Services$1,419,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $1,700,000 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $1,640,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION: $1,420,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc: $1,070,000 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $765,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $710,000 over 6y, 7.3% of budgetEDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC: $675,000 over 4y, 8.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac: $600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $600,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office: $500,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $425,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $340,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY MIAMI INC: $307,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $265,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $240,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetTHE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC: $235,000 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetBowdoin College: $225,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC: $225,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCURRY COLLEGE: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $200,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $200,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $195,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $185,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $170,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $155,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $150,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $142,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $128,333 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC: $122,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $122,420 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $112,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $102,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS AMHERST FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST SEBASTIAN SCHOOL FUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGOSNOLD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Norman B Leventhal Map & Education Center Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $85,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $81,000 over 6y, 1.2% 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.

  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWELL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC ↗
  • Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
  • Who funds WORLD TRADE CENTER PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY MIAMI INC ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
  • Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MCCOURT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
  • Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds NICK'S KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗

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…Cummings Foundation G…Yawkey Foundation IIThe New England Patri…Highland Street Conne…United Way Of Massach…Rockland Trust - Blue…Bushrod H Campbell & …Rockland Trust Charit…Mass General Brigham …
Eastern Bank FoundationMA74.2× affinity67 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Yawkey Foundation II · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

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 Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 450%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Urban League of Greater Springfield Inc: 81% of income from government
  • South Shore Peer Recovery Inc: 71% of income from government
  • The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc: 63% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc: 43% of income from government
  • St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Verse Video Education: 35% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Bluehub Capital Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • United Way Miami Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Building Pathways Inc: 23% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Digital Ready Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Gosnold Inc: 5% of income from government
  • South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Community Builders Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Longwood Symphony Orchestra Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Impact Melanoma Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Family Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Regis College: 2% of income from government
  • Artists for Humanity Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Madison Park Development Corporation: 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • American International College: 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lahey Clinic Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Architectural College: 1% of income from government
  • One Family Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children: 0% of income from government
  • Curry College: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
45get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 496 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-PF 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home