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The Boger Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
43
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$764kEducation$189kCivil Rights$89kFood & Nutrition$72kPublic Safety & Disaster$56kHuman Services$55kPhilanthropy$52kArts & Culture$51kOther$0
02FY2025 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $82k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $114k
$1,040
Median grant
7
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FAMILIES FIRST$5,000
PORT RECREATION AND YOUTH FOUNDATION$5,000
GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK$4,054
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $31k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $27k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $26k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $26k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $26k → 10%RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY: $26k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $2k → 16%YWCA BOSTON: $5k → 16%YWCA BOSTON: $3k → 16%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $500 → 10%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 10%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 10%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $250 → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $1k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $1k → 10%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $500 → 10%FAMILIES FIRST: $7k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $5k → 8%FAMILIES FIRST: $2k → 8%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $6k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $5k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $1k → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $500 → 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

VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DC
GA
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 49 repeat orgs$53k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
24

Total granted

$1.4M
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+19%

Still filing today

61%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
EducationHuman ServicesHealthInternationalYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $245k · revenue +56%
  • RF
    RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue ×17
  • EI
    EDVESTORS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $66k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • MC
    MASS COVID-19 RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
  • PB
    PLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -6%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%
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.

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2
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
3
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
4
Dean College

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,…

Education
5
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
6
Western New England University

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…

Education
7
Bentley University

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…

Education
8
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

—
10
Wheaton College

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…

Education
11
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meadowbrook School of Weston Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 80 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/55
Grantees still filing
39/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $346,430 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDPARTNERSHIP OF NATIVE AMERICANS: $88,580 · OtherPARTNERSHIP OF NATIVE AMERICANSGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $33,895 · OtherTRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $31,724 · OtherNEXT LEVEL SOCIAL IMPACT: $30,870 · Other+41 more: $167,459 · Other+41 moreEMERSON HOSPITAL: $245,321 · HealthEMERSON HOSPITAL+3 more: $5,750 · HealthRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $162,580 · Human ServicesRUNWAY FOR RECOVE…FAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $29,707 · Human ServicesFAMILIES FIRST PA…CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesCRADLES TO CRAYON…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $7,500 · Human Services+3 more: $5,826 · Human ServicesEDVESTORS INC: $65,563 · EducationEDVESTORS …MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $41,000 · EducationMEADOWBROO…NASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $17,583 · EducationNASHOBA BR…+9 more: $5,342 · EducationWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $56,280 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,599 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,120 · International+1 more: $50 · InternationalMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $25,140 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $19,250 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC: $2,050 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $625 · Arts & CultureFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $28,235 · Food & NutritionOPEN TABLE INC: $1,040 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $600 · Food & Nutrition
Other$698,958Health$251,071Human Services$218,613Education$129,488International$65,049Arts & Culture$47,065Food & Nutrition$29,875

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 budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL: $245,321 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC: $162,580 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $65,563 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $56,280 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $41,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $33,895 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES FIRST PARENTING PROGRAM INC: $29,707 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC: $28,235 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $25,140 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $19,250 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNASHOBA BROOKS SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $17,583 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $17,550 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $15,545 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $14,935 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAY BALL FOUNDATION INC: $5,250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPort Youth & Recreation Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $4,599 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMBRIDGE-ELLIS SCHOOL INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc: $2,576 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $2,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC: $2,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHISTORIC HARRISVILLE INC: $2,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $1,040 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURY INC: $1,029 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $850 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHOTOGRAPHIC RESOURCE CENTER INC: $625 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $545 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ONE LOVE FOUNDATION IN HONOR OF YEARDLEY LOVE INC: $524 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetY2Y NETWORK INC: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONCORD EDUCATION FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $455 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHINKGIVE INC: $450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $155 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 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 ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…American Tower Corpor…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bny Mellon Charitable…Zachary and Lindsey G…Rosse Family Charitab…Wellington Management…Yawkey Foundation II
Boston Foundation IncMA43.2× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Boger Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Boger Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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 80 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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The camps
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