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The Boch Family Foundation (D/B/A Music Drives Us)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$184k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
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 2024.

Education$283kArts & Culture$129kHealth$7kHuman Services$3kRecreation & Sports$150Housing & Shelter$116
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $51k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION$100,000
Individual grant recipient$26,257
MUSIC FORWARD FOUNDATION$25,000
Individual grant recipient$9,710
GUITAR CENTER$2,691
HOLLISTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
WALPOLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
WORCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
READING PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
WESTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
BARNSTABLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
ROCKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$2,500
REVERE PUBLIC SCHOOLS$684
DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP$150
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BALCH SCHOOL: $2k → 7%BARNSTABLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%ROCKLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%BOSTON THEATER CRITICS ASSOCIATION: $5k → 8%GLOUCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 10%AMPP WORCESTER- WORCESTER POLICE DEPT: $3k → 11%MANSFIELD INSTRUMENT DONATION: $5k → 11%REVERE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $684 → 16%FALCETTI MUSIC: $26k → 17%MUSIC FORWARD FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $150 → 5%WALPOLE PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 7%DUFFY HEALTH CENTER: $116 → 8%READING PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%WHITMAN-HANSON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 11%MAKE-A-WISH: $7k → 16%FALCETTI PANOS: $10k → 17%MUSIC FORWARD FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL 2022 GOLF TOURNAMENT: $150 → 5%DEDHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 7%SANDWICH MIDDLE HIGH SCHOOL: $3k → 8%BIRCHES SCHOOL: $6k → 8%WACHUSETT REG SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 11%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $20k → 16%HOUSE OF BLUESMUSIC FORWARD FOUNDATION: $15k → 14%DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $150 → 5%THE TOWN OF WRENTHAM: $3k → 7%LOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100k → 8%WORCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 11%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $12k → 16%DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP: $150 → 5%NATICK HIGH SCHOOL BAND: $3k → 8%MENDON-UPTON REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT: $3k → 11%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 16%HOLLISTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 16%WESTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 8%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $3k → 16%BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $504 → 16%BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY: $9k → 16%BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY: $1k → 16%BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY: $795 → 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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$106k · 3 repeat orgs$316k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
19

Total granted

$106k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-71%
+37%

Still filing today

33%
16%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthOther
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

  • LF
    LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue -71%
  • BP
    BOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2020–2024 · $40k
  • DB
    DAYNA BRUNELLI MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP
    2× · 2023–2024 · $300

Funded once

  • LP
    LOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +25%
  • M
    MAKE-A-WISH
    one grant, 2022 · $7k
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
04the grantee network

4 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. 4 of the 34 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)
4/4
Grantees still filing
3/4
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATION: $100,000 · OtherVERMONT AGENCY OF EDUCATIONLOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $100,000 · OtherLOWELL PUBLIC SCHOOLSBOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $40,437 · OtherBOSTON PUBLIC SCHOOLSIndividual grant recipient: $26,257 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+26 more: $72,913 · Other+26 moreLIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION: $65,000 · Arts & CultureLIVENATIONORG FOUNDA…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $11,209 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY …BIRCHES SCHOOL INC: $5,585 · EducationDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $116 · Health
Other$339,607Arts & Culture$76,209Education$5,585Health$116

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $11,209 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIRCHES SCHOOL INC: $5,585 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC: $116 over 1y, 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.

  • Who funds LIVENATIONORG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIRCHES SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Boston Foundation IncFidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation 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 The Boch Family Foundation (D/B/A Music Drives Us) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boch Family Foundation (D/B/A Music Drives Us). Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Duffy Health Center Inc: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get 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 · 0–90%
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 34 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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