· Private foundation
The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
75% of The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC | $200,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $200,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE | $100,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $100,000 |
| BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS | $100,000 |
| MY BROTHERS KEEPER | $100,000 |
| NATIVITY BOSTON INC | $100,000 |
| HOMESTART | $100,000 |
| HALEY HOUSE | $50,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $50,000 |
| WOMENS LUNCH PLACE | $50,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND | $20,000 |
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, $305k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +113% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k 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
- BOBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC2× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +139%
- HIHomeStart Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +113%
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN3× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INCone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
- WWONDERFUNDone grant, 2023 · $20k
- BOBRIDGE OVER TURNED WATERSone grant, 2023 · $20k
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.
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
The organization's mission is to prevent and end hunger and homelessness by providing integrated services that promote long-term stability, health, and independence. (see schedule o for full description)
To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.
Family promise north shore boston's mission is to prevent and end family homelessness. we promote access to economic opportunity and housing stability through a holistic, family-centered, community-based response.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
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…
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridge Over Troubled Waters 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 40 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 28 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPINGSTONE INC ↗
- Who funds HomeStart Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIVITY-BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds HALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche 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.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 37% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 26% of income from government
- Steppingstone Inc — 25% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 22% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 13% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% 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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