How much does The Cht Foundation give?

The Cht Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $80,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 28 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Cht Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Education (20%), Youth Development (18%).

Who are The Cht Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc ($50k), Greenroots Inc ($40k), Community Rowing Inc ($40k).

Does The Cht Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Cht Foundation 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 Cht Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation.

Where is The Cht Foundation based?

The Cht Foundation is based in MA.

The Cht Foundation

The Cht Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

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.

$80k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$5k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$190kEducation$145kYouth Development$126kArts & Culture$83kRecreation & Sports$66kHuman Services$55kHousing & Shelter$30kCommunity Improvement$17kOther$0

02FY2025 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.2M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC	$5,000
COMMUNITY ROWING INC	$5,000
EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC	$4,000
OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL INC	$4,000
NEW BEDFORD LIGHT	$4,000
GREENROOTS INC	$4,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC	$4,000
CHARLES RIVER CONSERVANCY	$4,000
MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC	$4,000
FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC	$4,000
CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC	$4,000
LITERATIONS	$3,000
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN	$3,000
SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC	$3,000
NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL	$3,000

02The need

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$697k · 42 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$697k

$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%

+77%

Still filing today

90%

67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +54%
GI
GREENROOTS INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +348%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION
8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +83%

Funded once

Cape Verdean Association in New Bedford Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +588%
TO
TRUSTEES OF THE RESERVATIONS
one grant, 2023 · $2k
GB
Give Black Alliance
one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%

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.

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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New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment

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

Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco

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Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc

The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.

Environment

Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment

Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment

Sea Education Association Inc

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,…

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Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment

Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc

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.

Environment

The Childrens Museum

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,…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charles River Conservancy Inc; 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.

04the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 52 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

34/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Environment$196,000Other$141,000Youth Development$109,000Education$108,000Human Services$69,000Arts & Culture$64,000Recreation & Sports$30,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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.

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 IncMA46.3× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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.

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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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

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The DAF merry-go-round

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The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home