· Private foundation
The Boger Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $61,157 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL | $52,821 |
| RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY | $31,280 |
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS | $15,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP OF NATIVE AMERICANS | $15,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $10,444 |
| MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $5,500 |
| CONCORD MUSEUM | $5,500 |
| TRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,356 |
| NEWBURYPORT EDUCATION FUND | $5,170 |
| PORT RECREATION AND YOUTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FAMILIES FIRST | $5,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $4,054 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $219k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 37 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- EHEMERSON HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +47%
- RFRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue ×17
- EIEDVESTORS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MCMASS COVID-19 RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2020 · $15k
- PBPLAY BALL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -6%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
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.
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…
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.
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,…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee 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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 80 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 EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Port Youth & Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE-ELLIS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OFF THEIR PLATE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HARRISVILLE 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II
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 Boger Charitable Trust 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.
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Families First Parenting Program Inc — 10% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.