· Private foundation
The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE | $3,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $2,000 |
| BOY'S & GIRL'S CLUB OF BOSTON | $1,500 |
| SISTERS OF CHARITY OF SAINT ELIZABETH | $1,500 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $1,000 |
| THE JEB FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR VETERANS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| WELLSPRING MULTI-SERVICE CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +40% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +63%- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $39k · revenue +305%
- 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%
- MWMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -39%
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.
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.
How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 60 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 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 ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Great Dog Rescue NE 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 MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARSHFIELD 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dicenso Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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