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Tazewell Foundation at a glance

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Tazewell Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$75k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$109kArts & Culture$92kHuman Services$65kHealth$63kEducation$40k
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$8,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$803k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROSIE'S PLACE$10,000
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER$9,000
MEETING STREET$9,000
ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC$8,000
ROGERSON COMMUNITIES$8,000
USS CONSTITUTION OLD IRONSIDE$8,000
PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND$8,000
PINE STREET INN$5,000
HEADING HOME INC$5,000
BOSTON BALLET$5,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $99k) 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%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $7k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $6k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $4k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $10k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $10k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $9k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $8k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 16 repeat orgs$0 to everyone else

16 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
0

Total granted

$369k
$0

Still filing today

81%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterHealthEducationOther
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

  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +39%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $34k · revenue +36%
  • Meeting Street
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +15%

Funded once

    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
    Boston Architectural College

    The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

    —
    2
    Boston Senior Home Care Inc

    Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.

    —
    3
    The Childrens Museum

    Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…

    Arts & Culture
    4
    Revolutionary Spaces Inc

    Revolutionary spaces brings people together to explore the american struggle to create and sustain a free society, singularly evoked by boston's old south meeting house and old state house. we steward these buildings as gathering spaces…

    Arts & Culture
    5
    Pine Street Inn Housing Ii Inc

    Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…

    Housing & Shelter
    6
    The Boston Children's School Inc

    To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning

    Education
    7
    Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
    —
    8
    Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

    Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

    Education
    9
    Children's Hospital Corporation

    Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

    Health
    10
    Boston Harbor Now Inc

    Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

    Environment
    11
    Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

    —
    12
    Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

    To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

    —
    How this is measured
    The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meeting Street; the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra 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

    13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

    0
    Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
    0
    Early backer (in before they grew)
    13/13
    Grantees still filing
    11/13
    Grew since first funded

    Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

    PINE STREET INN INC: $34,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INCBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD …ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesROGERSON COMMUNITIES INCASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $18,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATI…ROSIE'S PLACE INC: $47,500 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INCHEADING HOME INC: $27,500 · Housing & ShelterHEADING HOME INCBOSTON BALLET INC: $24,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INCUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureUSS CONSTITUTION MUSE…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHE…MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $14,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM…Meeting Street: $29,000 · HealthMeeting StreetSTEERE HOUSE NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER: $20,000 · HealthSTEERE HOUSE NU…USS CONSTITUTION OLD IRONSIDE: $22,000 · OtherUSS CONSTITUTI…NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DAY SCH: $14,000 · OtherNORTH SHORE CO…HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL: $12,000 · OtherHARVARD GRADUA…PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $28,000 · Education
    Human Services$99,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Arts & Culture$70,000Health$49,000Other$48,000Education$28,000

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

    25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $47,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMeeting Street: $29,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEADING HOME INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSTEERE HOUSE NURSING & REHABILITATION CENTER: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
    Eastern Bank FoundationMA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

    Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

    2024
    ’20’21’22’23’24’25
    no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
    • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
    • Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
    • Uss Constitution Museum Inc: 17% of income from government
    • Heading Home Inc: 17% of income from government
    • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
    • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
    • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
    • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
    • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
    • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
    • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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