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The Bulens Family 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$370k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$3.9MEducation$2.3MHuman Services$638kYouth Development$408kRecreation & Sports$282kReligion$265kPhilanthropy$247kEmployment$223kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k39 grants · $77k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $279k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $157k
  • $250k+2 grants · $664k
$2,551
Median grant
12
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$370,000
BELLESINI ACADEMY$294,150
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL$100,000
Individual grant recipient$57,017
THE SPORTS MUSEUM$35,600
FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY$27,700
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE$25,580
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS$25,000
HOPEWELL INC$25,000
DRUPAL ASSOCIATION$25,000
WOMENS FUND OF ESSEX COUNTY$25,000
NOTRE DAME CISTRO REY HIGH SCHOOL$20,200
THE ELLIE FUND$20,000
BAGLY$15,000
WEST PARISH GARDEN CEMETERY$14,678
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $432k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HARVEY GIRLS: $5k → 10%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $3k → 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HORIZON: $1k → 10%CREATIVE LIVING INC: $8k → 15%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOMEN & CHILDREN'S HORIZON: $250 → 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $850 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $500 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $400 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%TEWSKBURY COMMUNITY PANTRY: $500 → 8%HOPEWELL INC: $25k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $15k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $515 → 7%CATIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $500 → 8%PEOPLE HELPING PEOPLE: $250 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $100k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $100k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $28k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $20k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $17k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $15k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $12k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $10k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $5k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $3k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $1k → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $500 → 10%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $250 → 10%THE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%THE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%THE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $3k → 10%PARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $2k → 10%THE PROFESSIONAL CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT: $1k → 10%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
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DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.7M · 94 repeat orgs$656k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

94 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 53 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

94
108

Total granted

$8.7M
$539k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $118k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentOther

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

  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.6M · revenue +69%
  • FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $350k · revenue +62%
  • TS
    THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $225k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • PA
    PROCTOR ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $151k · revenue +45%
  • WW
    WORLD WATCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • VC
    VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -89%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
3
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

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5
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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6
Massachusetts Biomedical Initiatives Inc

Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…

Science & Tech
7
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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8
The Massachusetts Society for Medical Research Inc

To educate the public, media and members of the legislative, veterinary, and medical profession of medical advancement from animal research.

Health
9
Massachusetts Competitive Partnership Inc

Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…

Human Services
10
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
11
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
12
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reed Henderson Memorial Trust 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Cancer Support ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Youth Development ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community FoundationsChristian Missionary Organi…School District FoundationsYouth Sports ProgramsPublic Library OperationsCommunity Arts CentersWomen & Girls Leadership De…Policy Research and AdvocacyIndependent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%22%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr14%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr19%5%20–35yr14%51%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.8%1/123
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,235

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.

04the grantee network

112 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. 112 of the 218 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
109/112
Grantees still filing
75/112
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BELLESINI ACADEMY — $1,197,980 · OtherBELLESINI ACADEMYMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $901,250 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDST ANNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $231,000 · OtherWOMENS FUND OF ESSEX COUNTY — $200,750 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE — $173,527 · OtherDRUPAL ASSOCIATION — $166,397 · Other+135 more — $2,118,336 · Other+135 moreChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,634,385 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporation+15 more — $61,020 · HealthYEAR UP INC — $170,000 · EducationPROCTOR ACADEMY — $151,150 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $120,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP — $89,250 · EducationNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $60,000 · EducationELLIE FUND INC — $50,000 · EducationVOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND INC — $25,025 · Education+10 more — $36,691 · EducationFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $350,360 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INC — $40,515 · Human Services+12 more — $41,314 · Human ServicesTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $225,400 · Arts & Culture617 ROCKS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $18,832 · Arts & CultureEXPRESS YOURSELF INC — $11,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $7,325 · Arts & CultureMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $110,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $46,955 · Youth Development+2 more — $2,500 · Youth DevelopmentLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $116,040 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$4,989,240Health$2,695,405Education$702,116Human Services$432,189Arts & Culture$282,557Youth Development$159,455Housing & Shelter$121,040

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $2,634,385 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC — $350,360 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $225,400 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $170,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPROCTOR ACADEMY — $151,150 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PIKE SCHOOL INC — $127,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $120,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $120,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWEST PARISH GARDEN CEMETERY INC — $117,278 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC — $116,040 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP — $89,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC — $71,633 over 9y, 3.2% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $61,116 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBAGLY INC — $56,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetANDOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $50,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetELLIE FUND INC — $50,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $46,955 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHOPEWELL INC — $40,515 over 3y, 0.1% of budget617 ROCKS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $18,832 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $17,601 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCREATIVE LIVING INC — $17,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLoon Echo Land Trust Inc — $16,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $15,625 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASHLEY G CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $12,900 over 3y, 20% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE — $12,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $11,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEXPRESS YOURSELF INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT INC — $10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAB FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChicago Cubs Charities — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $9,503 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREED HENDERSON MEMORIAL TRUST INC — $9,250 over 5y, 8.5% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $8,930 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC — $8,891 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCREATIVE LIVING INC — $7,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $7,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSERVICE CLUB OF ANDOVER — $6,740 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $6,690 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC — $6,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetAvis Foundation Inc — $5,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEY GIRLS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSPIRIT OF ADVENTURE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA #227 — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budget
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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE PIKE SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds WEST PARISH GARDEN CEMETERY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
  • Who funds ANDOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds VOTER CHOICE EDUCATION FUND 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Essex County Communit…Cummings Foundation G…Rogers Family Foundat…Boston Foundation IncArbella Insurance Fou…Salem Five Charitable…Institution for Savin…Josephine G Russell T…The Red Sox Foundatio…United Way Of Massach…Artemas W Stearns Tru…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA41.8× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rogers Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Josephine G Russell Trust · The Red Sox Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Artemas W Stearns 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 Bulens Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
  • Genesis Club House Inc — 53% of income from government
  • Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
  • Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
  • Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Harvey Girls Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Andover Historical Society — 3% of income from government
  • Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 218 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines