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The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

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2
’18
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’19
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’20
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’21
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’22
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’23
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’24
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’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Philanthropy$2.9MEducation$630kHuman Services$580kHousing & Shelter$461kYouth Development$425kHealth$100kCommunity Improvement$100kEnvironment$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$39M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MY BROTHERS KEEPER$100,000
NATIVITY BOSTON INC$100,000
BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS$100,000
HOMESTART$100,000
WOMENS LUNCH PLACE$50,000
PINE STREET INN$50,000
HALEY HOUSE$50,000
MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND$20,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MY BROTHERS KEEPER: $100k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $50k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND: $20k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN INC: $25k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $10k → 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.

21%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$495k · 3 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +60% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$495k
$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+60%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $760k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • BO
    BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC
    2× · 2018–2025 · $215k · revenue +139%
  • HI
    HomeStart Inc
    4× · 2018–2024 · $145k · revenue +80%
  • HF
    HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
    3× · 2021–2025 · $135k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +15%
  • W
    WONDERFUND
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • BO
    BRIDGE OVER TURNED WATERS
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
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
Project Hope Boston Inc

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…

Human Services
2
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

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3
Citizens Inn Inc

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)

Housing & Shelter
4
United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc

To advance an economically just region where prosperity is shared across race and ethnicity.

Philanthropy
5
Family Promise North Shore Boston Inc

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.

Human Services
6
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Greater Boston Council On Alcoholism Inc
Philanthropy
8
The Brien Center for Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services

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…

Health
9
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
10
Sojourner House Inc

Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.

Housing & Shelter
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
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

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,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,947,748 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDHomeStart Inc: $145,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $100,000 · Community ImprovementCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $200,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BU…SACRED HEART STEM SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherSACRED HEART STEM SCHO…TRINITY CATHOLIC ACADEMY: $160,000 · OtherTRINITY CATHOLIC ACADE…MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY: $150,000 · OtherMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEM…NATIVITY-BOSTON INC: $100,000 · OtherNATIVITY-BOSTON INCFAMILY PROMISE: $100,000 · OtherFAMILY PROMISEWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $50,000 · Other+8 more: $106,480 · Other+8 moreBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $215,000 · HealthBRIDGE OV…STEPPINGSTONE INC: $150,000 · HealthSTEPPINGS…BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $100,000 · HealthBOSTON CO…HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $135,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $100,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $200,000 · Youth DevelopmentHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Community Improvement$3,192,748Other$1,066,480Health$465,000Human Services$305,000Youth Development$200,000Housing & Shelter$75,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $2,947,748 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $215,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $145,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $135,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVITY-BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBOSTON'S HIGHER GROUND INC: $100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHALEY HOUSE INC & AFFILIATES: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER BOSTON INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Fidelity FoundationThe New England Patri…United Way Of Massach…Suffolk Cares Charita…Yawkey Foundation IIRockland Trust - Blue…Liberty Mutual Founda…American Tower Corpor…Combined Jewish Phila…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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Find your warmest path to The Eileen Patricia Sullivan Roche 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 28 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-PF 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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