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The Daymarc Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k16 grants · $437k
- $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAB CENTRAL | $179,989 |
| CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER | $126,281 |
| COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS | $100,180 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $87,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND HOME FOR THE DEAF | $87,000 |
| CITY KIDS INC | $82,000 |
| SANTA FOR A DAY | $82,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN TOWER HILL | $80,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST | $79,000 |
| SALESIAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $67,000 |
| PAN - MASS CHALLENGE | $60,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WAYLAND FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $53,050 |
| NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS | $50,000 |
| VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN | $50,000 |
| SIBLING CONNECTIONS | $40,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
28 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 12 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, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $715k 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
- SFSANTA FOR A DAY INCORPORATED4× · 2022–2025 · $302k · revenue +26% · 35% of their budget
- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS2× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +19%
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $151k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BEAMAN PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $59k
- WPWCUM PUBLIC RADIO STATIONone grant, 2024 · $45k
- RTROOM TO DREAM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -31%
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 57 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 SANTA FOR A DAY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC ↗
- Who funds LAB CENTRAL INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC ↗
- Who funds New England Homes for the Deaf Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HARBOR NOW INC ↗
- Who funds The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WONDERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds EDESIA INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO DREAM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOW SEAT CREATIVE ACTION FOR CONSERVATION ↗
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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Verizon Foundation
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 Daymarc 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.
- Boston Harbor Now Inc — 45% of income from government
- New England Homes for the Deaf Inc — 36% of income from government
- Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc — 10% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- City Strings United Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Project Adventure Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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