· Public charity
The East Boston Foundation
Address socioeconomic and environmental impacts on the east boston community arising as a result of projects, facilities, and activities now being carried out and to be carried out in the future at boston-logan international airport by the massachusetts port authority.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 23 grants below total $595,270 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $624,120 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,850 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 $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $237k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BOSTON | $187,000 |
| SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $50,000 |
| EASTIE FARM | $42,000 |
| EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS | $31,000 |
| EB APAC (ABCD SUMMERWORKS) | $30,000 |
| ZUMIX | $29,000 |
| HARBORSIDE COUNCIL - ALL PROGRAMS | $25,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC | $23,700 |
| MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED | $21,300 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON INC | $12,500 |
| EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $12,500 |
| SELF ESTEEM BOSTON | $12,500 |
| ITALIA UNITA OF MASSACHUSETTS | $12,500 |
| POP WARNER LITTLE SCHOLARS AKA EAST BOSTON POP WARNER FOOTBALL | $12,500 |
| PIERS PARK SAILING CENTER | $12,500 |
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, $603k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% 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.
28 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- SBSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +108%
- EFEASTIE FARM INC7× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +270%
- ZIZUMIX INC7× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE MARSH INCone grant, 2023 · $25k
- EBEAST BOSTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL EAST BOSTONone grant, 2017 · $19k
- FOFRIENDS OF EAST BOSTON LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · $19k
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.
Youth Development
To promote neighborhood stabilization in the four corners of Boston. The organization focuses its grass roots efforts and activities on adressing crime and safety issues
Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
Evkids creates a community of support through school-year tutoring, college success support, and summer camp that provides underserved boston students grades 3 through college with one-on-one mentoring, supported by professional school…
Necp believes that social change happens when those most impacted by issues of systemic injustice, organize at the block level to address issues within their neighborhoods. through their involvement at a community level, residents engage…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is New England Salvadoran-American Day Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 43 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 SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EASTIE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds PARIS STREET COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Piers Park Sailing Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Martin Pino Community Center Council Inc ↗
- Who funds Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds East Boston Little League Inc ↗
- Who funds The East Boston Athletic Board Inc ↗
- Who funds Fund for Parks and Recreation - Boston ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEHARBORKEEPERS ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES LIGHTSHIP MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE MARSH INC ↗
- Who funds SPEAK FOR THE TREES INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds E INC ↗
- Who funds 2ND ACT ORG INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROCA INC ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Barr Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Boston After School & Beyond 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 East Boston 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- North Suffolk Community Services Inc — 63% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Friends of Belle Isle Marsh Inc — 43% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc — 20% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Maverick Landing Community Services Inc — 15% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
- Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Veronica Robles Cultural Center — 5% of income from government
- 2ND Act Org Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 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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