· Private foundation
The Dana Home Foundation Inc
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $163k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEXHAB | $50,000 |
| LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY | $50,000 |
| MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES | $45,000 |
| COOPERATIVE ELDER SERVICES | $25,000 |
| BOSTON AREA GLEANERS | $25,000 |
| SUPPORTIVE LIVINGWELLNESS CENTER | $20,000 |
| LEXINGTON RECREATION AND COMMUNITY | $17,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,160 |
| MEDFORD VISITING NURSING ASSOCIATION DBA VISITING NURSE AND COMMUNITY CARE | $10,000 |
| MINUTE MAN REGIONAL VOCATIONAL | $10,000 |
| DAOYIN HEALTH SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON | $6,000 |
| FOLLEN CHURCH | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| LEXINGTON HUMAN SERVICES | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $649k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 20% of The Dana Home Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 5 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $72k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $485k · revenue +106%
BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +17%- DHDAOYIN HEALTH SOCIETY5× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +43% · 100% of their budget
Funded once
- LHLEXINGTON HOUSING ASSITANCE BOARDone grant, 2020 · $50k
- TOTOWN OF LEXINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2019 · $18k
- FPFOOD PANTRYone grant, 2020 · $17k
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.
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.
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…
Provide assisted living facilities for low to moderate income elders.
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.
To promote the general welfare and independence of asian elders via a network of culturally sensitive and linguistically appropriate programs and services.
Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.
To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.
None
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…
Lifepath, inc. is a private non-profit organization, designated aging services access point and an area agency on aging. its mission is to help elders live at home safely and independently for as long as possible by providing assistance…
We support people age 60 and older persons with disabilities in their efforts to remain active healthy, financially secure, and in control of their own lives. The Agency connects people and the services they they need to live independently…
Seniorcare, inc. is a consumer centered organization that provides and coordinates services to elders and others, enabling them to live independently at home or in a setting of their choice while remaining part of their community.
To lead the assisted living industry in its service of seniors through advocacy, education, operational support, and enhanced growth opportunities.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 55 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Cooperative Elder Services Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds DAOYIN HEALTH SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ARC MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Lexington Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Youville Place 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 ↗
- Who funds CHINESE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dana Home Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dana Home Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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