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The Don Rodman Family Foundation
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.
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 $10k2 grants · $5k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Rodman for Kids | $1,228,490 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $200,000 |
| Ron Burton Training Center | $100,000 |
| Dorchester Discretionary Fund | $40,000 |
| Boston Health Care for the Homeless | $10,000 |
| MAB FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| Canton Choral Society | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- RFRodman For Kids Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $5.4M · revenue +17% · 46% of their budget
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC4× · 2021–2025 · $477k · revenue +127%
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- MRMARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue +3%
- MPMGR PERFORMING ARTS CENTERone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CCCURRY COLLEGEone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -2%
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.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
Rmk is an educational based non-profit organization located in southeastern massachusetts focused on preparing youth for the future workforce. our mission is to provide individuals with an inclusive mindset, which celebrates differences,…
The mission of the NECC is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share similar academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports.The NECC…
Positive recreational and educational tutoring and basketball program providing intercultural social activities with a focus on developing intelectual and academic social life skills for children in the fourth grade level through high…
The GBMCAA will encourage and promote a culture of scholarship and a community of mentorship by developing a pipeline between Morehouse College and the Greater Boston area.
The purpose of manchester rowing alliance (mra) is to foster the growth of the sport of rowing and other water sports in the greater manchester, nh area for students and adults by providing access to water, equipment, and coaching. mra…
To be a leader in advancing participation, education, and excellence in skating for people of all ages, abilities, and means.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To provide support for economic revitalization in the roxbury, massachusetts area.
The corporation is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code including, but not limited to, providing financial assistance to ice hockey players in…
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…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Shore Young Men's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Eliza Juliet Norton Memorial Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 22 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 Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARILYN RODMAN PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CURRY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZA JULIET NORTON MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper 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: Rodman For Kids Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Don Rodman Family 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.
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Curry College — 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.
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