· Private foundation
The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND | $15,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $8,400 |
| GLASTONBURY ABBEY | $8,275 |
| SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE | $4,500 |
| THE WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $3,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $2,000 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SAINT ELIZABETH | $1,500 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF BOSTON | $1,500 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| THE JEB FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
| MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY | $1,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR VETERANS | $1,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +63%- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +376%
- WLWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +141%
Funded once
COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -6%- FTFALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -7%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF MASSone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
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.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
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…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 41 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) — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 60 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 NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHER'S TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Great Dog Rescue NE Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PARTNERS IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds 152 COMMONWEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH TOGETHER WE CAN INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND 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.
Open a dossier: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Amica Companies 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 Dicenso Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Steppingstone Inc — 33% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Falmouth Together We Can Inc — 14% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Marshfield Food Pantry Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.