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The 1434 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.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $685k
- $50k–250k29 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $639k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $639,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $233,089 |
| ONE FAMILY INC | $120,000 |
| ESPERANZA ACADEMY | $100,000 |
| CATIE'S CLOSET | $100,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISERS INC | $100,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON | $75,000 |
| VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART | $75,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN | $75,000 |
| VETERAN LEGAL SERVICES | $60,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC | $60,000 |
| ARTADIA | $60,000 |
| ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY | $50,000 |
| THE FOOD PROJECT INC | $50,000 |
| ELEVATED THOUGHT INC | $50,000 |
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, $4.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 60% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +71% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.
110 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 51 since wound down; 6 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k 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
- OFONE FAMILY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +93%
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $900k · revenue +492%
Catie's Closet Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $803k · revenue +152%
Funded once
- PAPUBLIC ART FUND INCone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue -10%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +29%- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2017 · $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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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…
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,…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
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…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Community School Association 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
132 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. 132 of the 164 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 ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds VOICES IN CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds SPOONFULS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds CARING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds THE LIFE IS GOOD PLAYMAKER PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Barr Foundation · Richard & Susan Smith Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
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 The 1434 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.
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Hull Lifesaving Museum Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% 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 Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% 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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