· Public charity
The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc
The mission of the flutie foundation is to help people and families affected by autism live life to the fullest.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 96 grants below total $1,429,311 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,021,427 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $592,116 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $300k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $831k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $297k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOWN OF BELLINGHAM | $167,328 |
| BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION | $130,000 |
| THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC | $39,631 |
| PINE TREE SOCIETY INC | $31,460 |
| ACCESSSPORT AMERICA | $30,500 |
| PROMISE INC | $30,292 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF UPPER VALLEY | $28,947 |
| MONADNOCK DEVELOPMENT SERVICES | $27,764 |
| SPECTRUM EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| MICAH'S VOICE | $25,000 |
| INSURANCE RESOURCE CENTER FOR AUTISM AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH | $24,047 |
| THE ARC OF MASSACHUSETTS | $23,924 |
| ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $21,609 |
| SPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| 3L PLACE | $18,582 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 53 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $550k 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
- TBTHE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION4× · 2021–2024 · $460k · revenue +221%
- SDSPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION LTD6× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +163%
- AAMEGOINC6× · 2019–2024 · $141k · revenue +160%
Funded once
- ZHZACK HEGER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $74k · revenue -1%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION - CAMP SHRIVERone grant, 2017 · $60k
- AAAUTISM ALLIANCE OF METROWESTone grant, 2020 · $26k
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.
Provides community employment and awareness, vocational and developmental skills, to young adults and adults with autism and other developmental disabilities in central and eastern massachusetts. transportation services are also provided.…
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Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
To provide cost-effective residential, social, intellectual, physical and vocational services to individuals with autism in group homes and in home support.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
The necc exists to improve the lives of children with autism in the commonwealth of massachusetts, across new england and around the world. through direct-care services, education, parent training, research, professional development, and a…
To provide day and residential programs for treatment of autism and other developmental disabilities to clients within the rhode island area.
Potential engages children and adults with autism in personalized programs that help them realize their full potential.
Founded in 1998, the bay school's mission is to provide scientifically based educational services and to contribute to research that serves children with autism. the year-round school educates students between the ages of five and…
To provide day and residential treatment programs for adults diagnosed with autism or behavioral disorders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Spaulding Academy & Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Robins Kaplan Foundation. 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 28 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
205 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. 205 of the 238 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BOSTON ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds SPECTRUM DESIGNS FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds AMEGOINC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUILD FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF VIETNAMESE PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE BAKER CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds Youre With Us Inc ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FAMILY NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ARC MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE TREE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL NEEDS SUPPORT CENTER OF THE UPPER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Micahs Voice ↗
- Who funds ZACK HEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 3LPlace Inc ↗
- Who funds Let's Work for Good Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Autism Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds TECH KIDS UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOMALI PARENTS ADVOCACY CENTER FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORTH EAST EDUCATIONAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL SUPPORTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Spectrum Empowerment Project ↗
- Who funds EPIC PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds REED FOUNDATION FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds NONPAREIL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BRYCES JOURNEY 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 · Priscilla Alden Uwo · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Yawkey Foundation II · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · DCU for Kids · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation 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 Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc 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.
- Continuum of Care Inc — 100% of income from government
- Arc Massachusetts Inc — 100% of income from government
- Incompass Human Services Inc — 94% of income from government
- Community Autism Resources Inc — 92% of income from government
- Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
- Brockton Area Arc Inc — 91% of income from government
- Centro Las Americas Inc — 91% of income from government
- Youre With Us Inc — 90% of income from government
- Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
- Extraspecialteas Inc — 83% of income from government
- The Edinburg Center Inc — 81% of income from government
- Vermont Family Network Inc — 81% of income from government
- Lifeworks Incorporated — 81% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Mab Community Services Inc — 69% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Focus Center for Autism Inc — 63% of income from government
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- The Arc of Bristol County Inc — 55% of income from government
- The May Institute Inc — 47% of income from government
- All Out Adventures Inc — 47% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- Robert F Kennedy Community Alliance Inc — 41% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Bridging Independent Living Together Inc — 34% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Boys & Girls Club Inc — 30% of income from government
- Raising Harts Corporation — 30% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Circle of Vietnamese Parents Inc — 28% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meeting Street Massachusetts Inc — 23% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Hillcrest Educational Centers Inc — 21% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Common Ground Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Jewish Family Services of Atlantic County Inc — 6% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Florida Institute of Technology Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc — 5% of income from government
- Crossroads Continuum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gnome Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mitchell College — 2% of income from government
- Spectrum Empowerment Project — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Landmark College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cotuit Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Nemours Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Rcs Learning Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Florida Southern College — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 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.