· Private foundation
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k73 grants · $1.8M
- $50k–250k8 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD STREET NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER | $50,000 |
| WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY DBA ECOTARIUM | $50,000 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS | $50,000 |
| FAMILY ACCESS OF NEWTON | $50,000 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC | $50,000 |
| ROCA INC | $50,000 |
| WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER | $48,000 |
| PUPPET SHOWPLACE THEATRE | $44,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD VILLAGES | $40,000 |
| WBUR (TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY) | $40,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP | $35,000 |
| THE LOOP LAB INC | $35,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $2.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
123 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 72 since wound down; 31 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $873k 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
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +100%
Freedom House Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +176%
WGBH Educational Foundation3× · 2022–2024 · $150k · revenue +2%
Funded once
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +109%
JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +65%- SASOLUTIONS AT WORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +175%
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.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
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…
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…
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,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
To promote the growth and development of children while teaching them how to learn efficiently and experience the joy of learning
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 brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society. 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 30 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
254 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. 254 of the 302 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
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
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 PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Freedom House Inc ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CITY MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHILDREN'S CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds APPRENTICE LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CODMAN SQUARE HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPE AND COMFORT INC ↗
- Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds LEVEL GROUND MIXED MARTIAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Ocean Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds SMART FROM THE START INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY COOKS INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds JEREMIAH PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK 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: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation
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 Cabot Family 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention Inc — 73% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Young People's Project Inc — 39% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
- Neighborhood Villages Inc — 33% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Primary Source Inc — 23% of income from government
- Justice for Housing Inc — 22% of income from government
- Up Education Network — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc — 19% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Boston After School & Beyond Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Theatre Espresso Incorporated — 8% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Smart From the Start Inc — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Veronica Robles Cultural Center — 5% of income from government
- Friday Night Supper Program Inc — 5% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Northeast Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Festival Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Lyric Opera Company — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Kendall Square Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston's Higher Ground Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Brighter Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Record Company Inc — 2% of income from government
- Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hope and Comfort Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Consumer Law Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Aero Club of New England — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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