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The Cht 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY ROWING INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC | $5,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY | $4,000 |
| EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC | $4,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $4,000 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL INC | $4,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC | $4,000 |
| GREENROOTS INC | $4,000 |
| MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $4,000 |
| FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $4,000 |
| CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC (THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BO | $3,000 |
| NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN | $3,000 |
| BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $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 (FY17–25, $69k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +54%
- GIGREENROOTS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +348%
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +52%
Funded once
Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +588%- GBGive Black Allianceone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATIONSone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
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,…
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 mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Our mission is to restore and protect boston harbor, massachusetts bay and the marine environment and share them with the public for everyone to enjoy.
Boston children's museum engages children and families in joyful discovery experiences that instill an appreciation of our world, develop foundational skills, and spark a lifelong love of learning. boston children's museum is a welcoming,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles River Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Schooner Ernestina-Morrissey Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 52 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LITERATIONS CORP ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds Museum of African American History Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Neponset River Watershed Association ↗
- Who funds ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Waterfront Historic Area League of New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOONER ERNESTINA-MORRISSEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds Piers Park Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds World Ocean School 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 · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc
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 Cht 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.
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Rowing Inc — 2% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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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