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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.

$624k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$187k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$1.4MYouth Development$866kRecreation & Sports$441kArts & Culture$353kHousing & Shelter$172kEducation$111kEnvironment$102kFood & Nutrition$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 23 grants below total $595,270, the rows itemized in this filing. The $624,120 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $237k
$12,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
THE FUND FOR PARKS AND RECREATION BOSTON$12,500
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON INC$12,500
PIERS PARK SAILING CENTER$12,500
SELF ESTEEM BOSTON$12,500
EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL$12,500
EAST BOSTON SOUP KITCHEN$12,500
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%SELF ESTEEM BOSTON: $13k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN-BOSTON INC: $13k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $5k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $45k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $39k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $31k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $26k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $25k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $25k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $25k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $25k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $15k → 16%EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL: $13k → 16%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOUP KITCHEN: $13k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $13k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOUP KITCHEN: $13k → 16%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13k → 16%EB SOCIAL CENTERS - ALL PROGRAMS: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOUP KITCHEN: $13k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $10k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $10k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $10k → 16%YMCA (ALL PROGRAMS): $10k → 16%EAST BOSTON ECUMENICAL COMMUNITY: $8k → 16%MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES: $8k → 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 28 repeat orgs$179k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
12

Total granted

$3.3M
$144k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+47%

Still filing today

86%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
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

  • SB
    SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $261k · revenue +108%
  • EF
    EASTIE FARM INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +270%
  • ZI
    ZUMIX INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF BELLE ISLE MARSH INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • EB
    EAST BOSTON CENTRAL CATHOLIC SCHOOL EAST BOSTON
    one grant, 2017 · $19k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF EAST BOSTON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2018 · $19k
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
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
2
Historic Boston Incorporated
—
3
Boston Explorers Inc

Youth Development

Recreation & Sports
4
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
5
Greater Four Corners Action Coalition

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

Community Improvement
6
Vine Street Community Center Counci

Provides after school and tutoring enrichment programs for children and also provides recreational activities for residents and seniors of Boston, MA

Community Improvement
7
Managers of Boston Port and Seamen's Aid Society
—
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
9
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

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…

Youth Development
10
Evkids Inc

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…

—
11
New England Community Project Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Meor of Boston Inc
Religion
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastie Farm Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 43 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
26/33
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CITY OF BOSTON: $647,940 · OtherCITY OF BOSTONSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $260,900 · OtherSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCEB APAC (ABCD SUMMERWORKS): $256,149 · OtherEB APAC (ABCD SUMMERWORKS)East Boston Little League Inc: $70,920 · OtherEB GIRLS SOFTBALL: $53,745 · OtherFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston: $60,000 · Other+15 more: $241,648 · Other+15 moreEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $205,475 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON SOCIAL …YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $102,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON COMMUNI…Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $87,500 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston …EAST BOSTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $37,500 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON COMMUNI…MAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $32,500 · Human ServicesMAVERICK LANDING CO…+3 more: $42,500 · Human Services+3 morePARIS STREET COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $213,250 · EducationPARIS STR…The East Boston Athletic Board Inc: $65,000 · EducationThe East …STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 · EducationSTEPPINGS…ZUMIX INC: $231,500 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INCVERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER: $32,500 · Arts & CultureVERONICA …UNITED STATES LIGHTSHIP MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureUNITED ST…+2 more: $13,500 · Arts & CulturePiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $170,000 · Recreation & SportsMartin Pino Community Center Council Inc: $87,700 · Recreation & SportsEASTIE FARM INC: $232,180 · Food & NutritionTHEHARBORKEEPERS: $25,200 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $152,100 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,591,302Human Services$602,975Education$305,250Arts & Culture$302,500Recreation & Sports$257,700Food & Nutrition$257,380Housing & Shelter$152,100

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 budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC: $260,900 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC: $232,180 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetZUMIX INC: $231,500 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetPARIS STREET COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $213,250 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $205,475 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetPiers Park Sailing Center Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 5.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $152,100 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $102,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $95,000 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetMartin Pino Community Center Council Inc: $87,700 over 6y, 79% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $87,500 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetEast Boston Little League Inc: $70,920 over 8y, 51% of budgetThe East Boston Athletic Board Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 99% of budgetFund for Parks and Recreation - Boston: $60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $38,400 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY SOUP KITCHEN INC: $37,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetVERONICA ROBLES CULTURAL CENTER: $32,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMAVERICK LANDING COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $32,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHEHARBORKEEPERS: $25,200 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetUNITED STATES LIGHTSHIP MUSEUM INC: $25,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSPEAK FOR THE TREES INC: $22,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetE INC: $15,270 over 3y, 2.6% of budget2ND ACT ORG INC: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROCA INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetAmerica Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEAST BOSTON GATEWAY INC: $6,000 over 2y, 6.8% 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.

  • 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 NORTH SUFFOLK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds JCAM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
  • Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA 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.

Boston Foundation IncLiberty Mutual Founda…Rockland Trust - East…Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…The Cabot Family Char…Barr FoundationBushrod H Campbell & …Philanthropy Massachu…Boston Charitable Tru…William E Schrafft an…Boston After School &…
Boston Foundation IncMA34.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
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.
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How do I get to The East Boston Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The East Boston Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 43 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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