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The Dolce Family Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Dolce Family Foundation Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$408k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$2.0MHealth$1.0MEnvironment$94kHuman Services$13kPublic Benefit$1k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $400k
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$200,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$200,000
VETERANS COLLABORATIVE$5,000
PAN-MASS CHALLENGE$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PAN-MASS CHALLENGE: $3k → 7%BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION: $20k → 8%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $250k → 8%ST MARK'S SCHOOL: $200k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $210k → 16%LOOKOUT FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%DARE TO DREAM RANCH: $1k → 14%VNA OF CENTRAL CENTRAL JERSEY INC: $1k → 6%BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION: $19k → 8%MIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $125k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $206k → 16%BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION: $19k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $205k → 16%BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION: $19k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%BARNSTABLE CLEAN WATER COALITION: $17k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $200k → 16%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $7k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS DEPARTMENT OF MASSACHUSETTS: $1k → 16%GREATER BOSTON VETERANS COLLABORATIVE: $5k → 16%GREATER BOSTON VETERANS COLLABORATIVE: $3k → 16%VETERANS COLLABORATIVE: $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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 5 repeat orgs$212k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$2.9M
$204k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
0%

Still filing today

60%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthOther
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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +87%
  • MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
    2× · 2018–2020 · $375k · revenue +26%
  • TB
    THREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $94k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC
    one grant, 2018 · $200k · revenue +13%
  • DT
    Dare to Dream Ranch Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
  • LF
    LOOKOUT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue -97%
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
Dean College

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,…

Education
2
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
3
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
4
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
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
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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7
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
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
10
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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11
Duxbury Bay Maritime School Inc

To connect people of all ages, abilities and means to duxbury bay through educational and recreational programs that stimulate individual growth and an enduring love and appreciation of the sea.

Education
12
Massachusetts Biotechnology Council Inc

Massbio is committed to advancing massachusetts' leadership in the life sciences to grow the industry, add value to the health care system and improve patient lives.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Greater Boston Veterans Collaborative Inc. 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

8 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. 8 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/8
Grantees still filing
5/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,427,415 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $375,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOLST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $200,000 · EducationST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INCMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $1,000,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL+4 more: $9,500 · OtherTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $93,600 · EnvironmentGREATER BOSTON VETERANS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 · Public BenefitDare to Dream Ranch Inc: $1,000 · HealthLOOKOUT FOUNDATION: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Education$2,002,415Other$1,009,500Environment$93,600Public Benefit$7,500Health$1,000Philanthropy$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1,427,415 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $375,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHREE BAYS PRESERVATION INC: $93,600 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON VETERANS COLLABORATIVE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetDare to Dream Ranch Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLOOKOUT FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Dolce Family Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dolce Family Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 12 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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