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The Daymarc Foundation at a glance

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The Daymarc Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$180k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Health$841kEnvironment$636kArts & Culture$630kYouth Development$615kEducation$428kPhilanthropy$347kScience & Tech$310kHuman Services$291kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k16 grants · $437k
  • $50k–250k14 grants · $1.2M
$40,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SANTA FOR A DAY$82,000
CITY KIDS INC$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
VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN$50,000
NATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS$50,000
COURAGEOUS SAILING$40,000
02The need
03

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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SIBLING CONNECTIONS: $40k → 16%SIBLING CONNECTION: $40k → 16%SIBLING CONNECTION: $30k → 16%SIBLING CONNECTION: $30k → 16%SIBLING CONNECTION: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.5M · 28 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
17

Total granted

$3.5M
$404k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+57%

Still filing today

71%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $715k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SF
    SANTA FOR A DAY INCORPORATED
    4× · 2022–2025 · $302k · revenue +43% · 39% of their budget
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    2× · 2023–2025 · $163k · revenue +19%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $151k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BEAMAN PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2024 · $59k
  • WP
    WCUM PUBLIC RADIO STATION
    one grant, 2024 · $45k
  • RT
    ROOM TO DREAM FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue -31%
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.

1
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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2
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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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
8
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
9
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
10
Trustees of Boston College

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…

Education
11
Bentley University

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…

Education
12
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 57 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/32
Grantees still filing
21/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN TOWER HILL: $501,447 · OtherNEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL GARDEN TOWER HILLCITY KIDS INC: $157,000 · OtherCITY KIDS INCPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $150,000 · OtherPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INCCENTER FOR CAA RESEACH LAB - MGH: $130,000 · OtherWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER: $126,281 · OtherSALESIAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $112,000 · OtherCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $110,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND BALLET INC: $110,000 · OtherSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $145,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $94,000 · Other+30 more: $1,154,299 · Other+30 moreTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $259,550 · HealthTHE VIRGINIA …BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $151,201 · HealthBETH ISRAEL D…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $75,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 · HealthDana-Farber C…+1 more: $1,698 · HealthNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …The Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc: $85,000 · Arts & CultureThe Commo…BOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON YO…CITY STRINGS UNITED INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCITY STRI…SANTA FOR A DAY INCORPORATED: $302,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $163,386 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $32,266 · EducationLAB CENTRAL INC: $179,989 · Science & TechTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $15,000 · Youth Development
Other$2,790,027Health$537,449Arts & Culture$380,000Philanthropy$302,000Education$295,652Science & Tech$179,989Youth Development$165,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA FOR A DAY INCORPORATED: $302,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetTHE VIRGINIA THURSTON HEALING GARDEN INC: $259,550 over 4y, 18% of budgetNATIONAL BRAILLE PRESS INC: $205,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $163,386 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $151,201 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIBLING CONNECTIONS INC: $145,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetCOURAGEOUS SAILING CENTER FOR YOUTH INC: $110,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE METROWEST INC: $94,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBOSTON HARBOR NOW INC: $85,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Commonwealth Shakespeare Co Inc: $85,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWONDERMORE INC: $70,193 over 2y, 12% of budgetBOSTON YOUTH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetEDESIA INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC: $32,266 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOW SEAT CREATIVE ACTION FOR CONSERVATION: $30,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCITY STRINGS UNITED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSQUASHBUSTERS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,698 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Hamilton Company …Highland Street Conne…American Tower Corpor…Eastern Cambridge Fou…Arbella Insurance Fou…Verizon Foundation
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA21.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Daymarc Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Daymarc Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 57 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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