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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.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
82
Grants FY2024
81
Organizations funded FY2023
42%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
79 to 95
FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$56M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 42% of the organizations The Cabot Family Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $845k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving82$2.2M38%
FY202381$2.0M42%
FY202295$2.6M48%
FY202192$2.5M55%
FY202086$2.1M67%
FY201979$2.0Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.4MHuman Services$2.0MYouth Development$1.7MArts & Culture$1.6MFood & Nutrition$963kCrime & Legal$885kHousing & Shelter$705kHealth$687kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 252 grantees
All grantees of The Cabot Family Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$165,00061%
Freedom House Inc$150,00035%
WGBH Educational Foundation$150,00030%
Community Servings Inc$140,00030%
Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc$140,00043%
Brighter Boston Inc$131,000438%
Catie's Closet Inc$130,00031%
Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc$125,00053%
Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc$125,00052%
Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc$125,00034%
Familyaid Boston Inc$120,00030%
City Mission Inc$120,000464%
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc$120,00036%
Food for Free Committee Inc$118,00030%
Samaritans Inc$115,00051%
Boston Children's Chorus Inc$110,00042%
Apprentice Learning Inc$100,00046%
One Can Help Inc$100,00047%
Northeast Hospital Corporation$100,00020%
Action for Boston Community Development Inc$99,47020%
Codman Square Health Center Inc$98,00020%
Ellis Early Learning Inc$96,00031%
James D Stclair Court Public Education Project Inc$95,00043%
Hope and Comfort Inc$94,00051%
Rian Immigrant Center Inc$94,00021%
Boston Lyric Opera Company$90,00040%
The Loop Lab Inc$90,00034%
Ocean Alliance Inc$90,00033%
Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc$90,00034%
Science From Scientists Inc$85,00051%
The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc$85,00031%
The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc$85,00030%
Smart From the Start Inc$85,00032%
Community Cooks Inc$80,00037%
Jeremiah Program$80,00040%
Food Link Inc$80,00022%
The Epiphany School Inc$80,00021%
Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc$80,00051%
De Novo Center for Justice and Healing$80,00041%
Boston Food Forest Coalition$80,000223%
The Young People's Project Inc$75,00023%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$75,00030%
Boston Casa Inc$75,00033%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$75,00020%
Edvestors Inc$75,00031%
Boston's Higher Ground Inc$75,00024%
Artists for Humanity Inc$75,00021%
Silver Lining Mentoring Inc$75,00051%
Found in Translation Inc$75,00032%
Circle of Hope Inc$75,00032%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$75,00051%
The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc$75,00022%
Friends of the Children - Boston Inc$72,50041%
Boston Schools Fund$70,00022%
About Fresh Inc$70,00021%
West End House Inc$70,00031%
Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc$70,00034%
Latinos for Education Inc$67,00031%
Neighborhood Villages Inc$65,00021%
Somerville Historical Society$65,00026%
Primary Source Inc$64,50023%
Greenroots Inc$63,75021%
The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc$60,00023%
Adolescent Consultation Services Inc$60,00041%
The Teacher Collaborative Inc$60,00023%
Worcester Natural History Society Inc$60,00022%
Hopewell Inc$60,00020%
The Second Step Inc$60,00022%
Nurtury Inc$60,00020%
Greater Boston Legal Services Inc$55,00020%
New England Innocence Project$55,00023%
Spoonfuls$52,00040%
Girls Inc of Greater Pittsburgh$50,00022%
Prison Book Program$50,00028%
Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc$50,00011%
Solutions at Work Inc$50,0001n/a
Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc$50,00010%
Boston Festival Orchestra Inc$50,000216%
East Boston Community Council Inc$50,00016%
The Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth Inc$50,00012%
Horizons for Homeless Children$50,00010%
Community Boating Inc$50,00041%
The Bottom Line Inc$50,00020%
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc$50,00011%
Friends of Bedrock Gardens$50,00026%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$50,00020%
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$50,00011%
Doc Wayne Inc$50,00021%
NextGen Talent Inc$50,000112%
Gaining Ground Inc$50,00032%
Huntington Theatre Co Inc$50,00010%
Franciscan Hospital for Children$50,00010%
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (Arck) Incorporated$50,00028%
Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc$50,00040%
Roca Inc$50,00010%
Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation$50,00011%
Steppingstone Foundation Inc$50,00020%
Pine Street Inn Inc$50,00010%
Tech Goes Home Incorporated$50,00021%
La Colaborativa Inc$50,00011%
Artisan's Asylum Inc$50,00014%
Friends of Excel Academy Charter Schools Inc$50,00011%
East Boston Social Centers Inc$50,00011%
Newton Community Service Centers Inc$50,00011%
Company One Inc$50,00024%
Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc$50,00010%
Bryces Journey Inc$50,0002n/a
The Trust for Public Land$50,00010%
Just-A-Start Corporation$50,00020%
Roxbury Stone House Inc$50,00021%
Sociedad Latina Inc$50,00021%
Boston Outdoor Preschool Network$48,00021%
Community Music Center of Boston Inc$47,98311%
Soccer Without Borders$47,50031%
Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc$47,50011%
Museum of Science$45,00010%
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum$40,00011%
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$40,00020%
The Neighborhood House Charter School Inc$40,0001n/a
The Wily Network$40,00021%
Community Art Center Inc$40,00022%
Prospect Hill Academy Charter School Foundation Inc$40,00015%
Aero Club of New England$40,000413%
Speak for the Trees Inc$40,00023%
Friday Night Supper Program Inc$37,50058%
Elizabeth Peabody House Association$37,00031%
Resilient Coders Inc$35,00013%
The Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society$35,0001n/a
Latino STEM Alliance$35,0001n/a
Mount Washington Observatory$35,00011%
The Food Project Inc$35,00011%
More Than Words Inc$35,00010%
Thinkgive Inc$35,00026%
Third Sector New England Inc$35,00010%
Youth Guidance$35,00010%
Boston Building Materials Coop Charitable and Educational Fund$35,00014%
Campus Without Walls Inc$35,0001n/a
Community Rowing Inc$35,00020%
Uncornered Inc$35,00011%
Friends of the Rafael Hernandez School Inc$35,00016%
Theatre Espresso Incorporated$31,9001n/a
Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc$30,00013%
Steps to Success Inc$30,00021%
Preparatory Foundation Inc$30,00020%
Saint Francis House Inc$30,00010%
Boston After School & Beyond Inc$30,00011%
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc$30,00031%
Castle of Our Skins Inc$30,00014%
Revolutionary Spaces Inc$30,00011%
Kendall Square Orchestra Inc$30,000126%
Justice at Work Inc$30,00023%
Veronica Robles Cultural Center$30,00013%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$30,00012%
Peer Health Exchange Inc$30,00030%
Lena Park Community Development Corporation$30,00021%
Playworks Education Energized$30,00010%
Sunflower of Peace Foundation Inc$30,00010%
Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc$30,00020%
Noble and Greenough School$29,50020%
The Center for the Arts at the Armory Inc$26,00016%
New Repertory Theatre Inc$25,00012%
Health Resources in Action Inc$25,00010%
Trustees of Boston College$25,00010%
North Bennet Street School$25,00010%
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$25,00011%
Mass Insight Education and Research Institute Inc$25,00010%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$25,00010%
Harborcov Inc$25,00011%
Appalachian Mountain Club$25,00020%
SparkShare Inc$25,000115%
Up Education Network$25,00010%
Bridges Homeward Inc$25,00010%
The Record Company Inc$25,00012%
Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc$25,00010%
Trustees of Eliot School$25,00012%
Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc$25,00012%
Ellie Fund Inc$25,00011%
Justice For Housing Inc$25,00015%
Victory Programs Inc$25,00010%
Ocean Discovery League Inc$25,00012%
The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc$25,00011%
Beacon Academy Inc$25,00011%
The Phoenix Charter Academy Foundation Inc$25,00012%
Friends of Crite Park Corp$25,0001n/a
Community Resources for Justice Inc$25,00010%
Uss Constitution Museum Inc$25,00010%
National Consumer Law Center Inc$25,00020%
Walker Inc$25,00010%
Economic Mobility Pathways Inc$25,0001n/a
Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office$25,00010%
Somali Development Center Inc$25,00015%
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc$25,00011%
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk County Inc$25,00011%
Healthworks Community Fitness Inc$25,00018%
Reach Prep Inc$25,00012%
Young Man With a Plan Inc$25,0001n/a
Jfynetworks a Nonprofit Corporation$25,0001n/a
Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England$25,00010%
Shooting Touch Inc$25,00013%
Children's Advocacy Center$25,0001n/a
Zumix Inc$25,00011%
Theatrezone Inc$25,00016%
Alliance for Inclusion and Prevention Inc$24,00021%
Boston Book Festival Inc$20,00023%
Trustees of Boston University$20,00010%
Coaching for Change Inc$20,00013%
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice$20,00014%
One Family Inc$20,00011%
Vietnamese American Initiative for Development Inc$20,00011%
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated$20,00010%
Education Pioneers$20,00011%
Science Club for Girls Inc$20,00011%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$20,00011%
Career Collaborative Inc$20,00023%
Earthwatch Institute Inc$20,00010%
Eureka Ensemble Corporation$20,000134%
Benevolent Fraternity of Unitarian Churches$20,00011%
Rar-Ma Inc$20,00012%
Piers Park Sailing Center Inc$20,00012%
Essential Partners Inc$20,00011%
Trinity Boston Connects Inc$20,00020%
Culturehouse Incorporated$20,00016%
Health Law Advocates Inc$17,50011%
Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries Inc$15,48517%
Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc$15,00011%
Big City Mountaineers$15,00011%
Friends of Belle Isle Marsh Inc$15,000113%
Sisters Unchained Inc$15,00015%
School on Wheels of Massachusetts Inc$15,00011%
Educational Development Group Inc$15,0001n/a
Chameleon Arts Ensemble of Boston Inc$15,00033%
Evkids Inc$15,00011%
Navigation Games Inc$15,000110%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$15,00010%
Herring Gut Learning Center$15,0001n/a
Boston Center for the Arts Inc$15,00011%
The Ecumenical Social Action Committee Inc (Esac)$15,00011%
Neighborhood of Affordable Housing Inc$15,00010%
Balletrox Inc$15,00016%
Leap Self-Defense Inc$13,50022%
The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children$10,00011%
Women's Lunch Place Inc$10,00010%
Friends of St Stephen's Youth Programs Inc$10,00011%
Read to a Child Inc$10,00011%
Union Capital Inc$10,00011%
Wondermore Inc$10,00016%
New Life Furniture Bank of Ma Inc$10,00011%
Community Work Services Inc$10,00011%
Boston Public Library Fund Inc$10,00010%
Freshman Fresh Start Inc$6,71517%
Southwest Boston Community Development Corporation and Affiliates$6,00011%
Friends of the Public Garden Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Cabot Family Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPhilanthropy Massachusetts Inc: $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetFreedom House Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Servings Inc: $140,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMissionsafe a New Beginning Inc: $140,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetBrighter Boston Inc: $131,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $130,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc: $125,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetImmigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFamilyaid Boston Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCity Mission Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 64% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $120,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetFood for Free Committee Inc: $118,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSamaritans Inc: $115,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Children's Chorus Inc: $110,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetApprentice Learning Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetOne Can Help Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 6.9% of budgetNortheast Hospital Corporation: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAction for Boston Community Development Inc: $99,470 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCodman Square Health Center Inc: $98,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEllis Early Learning Inc: $96,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJames D Stclair Court Public Education Project Inc: $95,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHope and Comfort Inc: $94,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetRian Immigrant Center Inc: $94,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Lyric Opera Company: $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Loop Lab Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetLevel Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc: $90,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetScience From Scientists Inc: $85,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetThe Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetThe Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSmart From the Start Inc: $85,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCommunity Cooks Inc: $80,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetJeremiah Program: $80,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFood Link Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCourageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc: $80,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDe Novo Center for Justice and Healing: $80,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBoston Food Forest Coalition: $80,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetThe Young People's Project Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Home for Little Wanderers Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Casa Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEdvestors Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBoston's Higher Ground Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetArtists for Humanity Inc: $75,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSilver Lining Mentoring Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA167.5× affinity97 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

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How do I get to The Cabot Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Cabot Family Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Cabot Family Charitable Trust

How much does The Cabot Family Charitable Trust give?
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust reported 82 grants totaling $2,205,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 79 and 95 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does The Cabot Family Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (18%), Human Services (15%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are The Cabot Family Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc ($165k), Freedom House Inc ($150k), WGBH Educational Foundation ($150k).
Does The Cabot Family Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Cabot Family Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Cabot Family Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Boston Foundation Inc.
Where is The Cabot Family Charitable Trust based?
The Cabot Family Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 302 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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