· Private foundation
The Dana Home Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES | $60,000 |
| LEXHAB | $45,000 |
| COOPERATIVE ELDER SERVICES | $27,000 |
| BOSTON AREA GLEANERS | $24,000 |
| MEDFORD VISITING NURSING ASSOCIATION DBA VISITING NURSE AND COMMUNITY CARE | $20,000 |
| SUPPORTIVE LIVINGWELLNESS CENTER | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON RECREATION AND COMMUNITY | $17,900 |
| HANCOCK CHURCH | $15,000 |
| LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| DAOYIN HEALTH SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| LEXINGTON SYMPHONY | $7,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,450 |
| BROOKHAVEN | $5,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $573k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 95% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Dana Home Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +31% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 3 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- MSMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $440k · revenue +106%
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC3× · 2022–2024 · $54k · revenue +17%- FLFOOD LINK INC4× · 2019–2024 · $47k · revenue +217%
Funded once
- LHLEXINGTON HOUSING ASSITANCE BOARDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- FCFOLLEN CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TOTOWN OF LEXINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $18k
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.
We are committed to providing the highest quality, compassionate home care to the patients entrusted to us. We are also steadfast in our pledge to be a responsive and innovative advocate for the communities we serve, focusing on health…
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Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.
Assisted Living and Nursing Care
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
Provide assisted living facilities for low to moderate income elders.
To provide the residents of the health center with the highest level of comprehensive medical care services with a considerate and personal touch.
Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…
To promote the general welfare and independence of asian elders via a network of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs and services.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
It is the mission of the Bangor Nursing and Rehabilitation Center to provide the highest level of care with the highest level of quality, competency and professionalism that focuses on the health andwell-being of the community it serves.
To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston Center for Independent Living Inc and the most unlike its peers is Daoyin Health Society. 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 41 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% 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 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.
19 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. 19 of the 50 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 MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cooperative Elder Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds DAOYIN HEALTH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARC MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Youville Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Lexington Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds Medford Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE LEXINGTON CHAMBER MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbor Brigade Inc ↗
- Who funds POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT ↗
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 · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ciccolo Family Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Point32health Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Dana Home Foundation Inc 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.
- Arc Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
- Cooperative Elder Services Inc — 36% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc — 5% of income from government
- Youville Place Inc — 3% of income from government
- Chinese American Association of Lexington Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% 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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