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The Devonshire Foundation

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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$290k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Youth Development$4.9MHuman Services$3.9MEnvironment$3.8MCommunity Improvement$2.4MEmployment$1.9MRecreation & Sports$1.8MEducation$1.1MArts & Culture$909kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+5 grants · $1.3M
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$37M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED$290,471
BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION$279,600
UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS$251,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON$250,000
URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE$250,000
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND (MATTAPAN FOOD AND FITNESS)$249,843
YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN$200,000
SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC$200,000
BREAKTIME UNITED INC$180,000
LOWELL PARKS AND CONSERVATION TRUST$155,000
COACHING FOR CHANGE$127,500
THE LOOP LAB$80,000
BUILDING AUDACITY INC$55,000
ROCA INC$50,000
LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE$30,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $6.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PRIME COALITION: $100k → 14%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $200k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $200k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $150k → 7%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $100k → 7%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $300k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $25k → 7%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $300k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $25k → 7%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $150k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $30k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $251k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $215k → 16%PRIME COALITION INC: $200k → 8%PRIME COALITION INC: $200k → 8%YWCA BOSTON: $350k → 16%YWCA BOSTON: $200k → 16%PRIME COALITION INC: $200k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET: $150k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $75k → 8%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $50k → 8%YWCA BOSTON: $40k → 16%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $50k → 8%YWCA BOSTON: $25k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $25k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $300k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $240k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $160k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $130k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC: $105k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC: $100k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $25k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $160k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN BOSTON: $275k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $147k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON: $250k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $84k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $50k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $40k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $25k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $25k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $280k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $200k → 16%FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $175k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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CO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 72 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +101% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

72 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
35

Total granted

$22M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+101%
+34%

Still filing today

79%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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

  • SL
    SILVER LINING MENTORING INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $812k · revenue +148%
  • CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $805k · revenue +27%
  • LD
    LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $776k · revenue +335%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $162k · revenue +12%
  • MW
    MYSTIC WATERSHED ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2017 · $140k
  • YU
    YOUTHBUILD USAYOUTH ON BOARD
    one grant, 2020 · $125k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
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
3
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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4
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
5
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
6
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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7
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
8
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
9
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
10
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
11
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…

Education
12
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Merck Family Fund. 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 25 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%34%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%47%10–20yr19%18%20–35yr14%4%35–55yr14%23%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
11%
3,839/34,372

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.

04the grantee network

81 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. 81 of the 111 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/81
Grantees still filing
69/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNCORNERED INC — $1,285,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INCSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC — $766,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INCINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $710,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE…PRIME COALITION INC — $700,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INCFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $655,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSA…YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC — $625,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIAT…FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $556,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATEDFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $540,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON…UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $481,200 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTSCatie's Closet Inc — $325,000 · Human Services+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesBIKES NOT BOMBS INC — $665,000 · OtherBIKES NOT BOMBS INCTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED — $553,871 · OtherTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATEDPLAYWORKS — $541,000 · OtherPLAYWORKSCHICA PROJECT — $370,000 · OtherCHICA PROJECTCOMPANY ONE THEATRE — $350,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY DBA WBUR — $348,175 · OtherBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $289,600 · OtherTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND (MATTAPAN FOOD AND FITNESS) — $264,843 · OtherCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC — $332,500 · OtherSPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) — $259,000 · Other+56 more — $2,867,746 · Other+56 moreSILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $812,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING …LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $776,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOUIS D BROWN …ROCA INC — $495,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INCBUILDING AUDACITY — $305,000 · Youth DevelopmentBUILDING AUDAC…SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $215,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLUB F…YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $205,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN WITH…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $100,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $805,000 · Recreation & SportsCROSSROADS …DOC WAYNE INC — $761,000 · Recreation & SportsDOC WAYNE I…INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $700,000 · Recreation & SportsINNERCITY W…+2 more — $55,000 · Recreation & SportsMANOMET INC — $651,000 · EnvironmentMANOMET IN…GREENROOTS INC — $540,000 · EnvironmentGREENROOTS…MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $445,000 · EnvironmentMYSTIC RIV…LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $165,000 · EnvironmentLOWELL PAR…CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC — $165,000 · EnvironmentCHANGE IS …+6 more — $145,500 · Environment+6 moreCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC — $685,000 · EmploymentCOLLEGE F…BREAKTIME UNITED INC — $635,000 · EmploymentBREAKTIME…THE LOOP LAB INC — $385,000 · EmploymentTHE LOOP …Resilient Coders Inc — $250,000 · EmploymentResilient…THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $270,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $200,000 · Community ImprovementA BETTER CITY INC — $100,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC — $20,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$6,653,200Other$6,841,735Youth Development$2,923,000Recreation & Sports$2,321,000Environment$2,111,500Employment$1,955,000Community Improvement$600,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNCORNERED INC — $1,285,000 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $812,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC — $805,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $776,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC — $766,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC — $761,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC — $710,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC — $700,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $700,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC — $685,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC — $665,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetFAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $655,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMANOMET INC — $651,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC — $635,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC — $625,000 over 4y, 5.9% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $556,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetTECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED — $553,871 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $540,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $540,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetROCA INC — $495,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS — $481,200 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $445,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC — $385,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC — $332,500 over 3y, 10% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc — $325,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetBUILDING AUDACITY — $305,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $289,600 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC — $270,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetSPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) — $259,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetResilient Coders Inc — $250,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $215,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $205,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $200,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC — $174,225 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST — $165,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC — $165,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $161,539 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $161,213 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA BETTER CITY INITIATIVE INC — $125,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC — $121,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetThe Food Project Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetA BETTER CITY INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $72,754 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC — $55,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN FOREIGN SERVICE ASSOCIATION — $49,678 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budget
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 UNCORNERED INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
  • Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
  • Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
  • Who funds COLLEGE FOR SOCIAL INNOVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY NURTURING CENTER OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCA INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
  • Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
  • Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING AUDACITY ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN FARMING INSTITUTE OF BOSTONINC ↗
  • Who funds SPOKE ART INC (FKA MEDICINE WHEEL PRODUCTIONS INC) ↗
  • Who funds Resilient Coders Inc ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Eastern Bank Foundati…Barr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…William E Schrafft an…Health Resources in A…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…Fidelity FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…
Boston Foundation IncMA67.7× affinity44 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Health Resources in Action Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Fidelity Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay 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 Devonshire 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Institute for Sustainable Communities — 100% of income from government
  • Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
  • Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
  • College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Spoke Art Inc (Fka Medicine Wheel Productions Inc) — 22% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
  • Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Groundwork Somerville Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Company One Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Devonshire Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Devonshire 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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