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The Fish Family 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.

$2.6M
Granted FY2022
110
Grants FY2022
14
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

99% of The Fish Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Boston Foundation Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year The Fish Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 90 organizations, $3M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

53
’17
64
’19
55
’20
92
’21
90
’22
12
’23
2
’24
2
’25

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

01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$5.5MHuman Services$2.2MYouth Development$2.0MCivil Rights$1.6MEducation$740kCrime & Legal$674kCommunity Improvement$416kInternational$368kOther$0
02FY2022 · 110 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k55 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k39 grants · $602k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$4.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC$250,000
RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER$245,032
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTE$223,000
BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATER$200,000
PROJECT CITIZENSHIP$164,177
AGENCIA ALPHA$160,000
INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE$110,000
DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING INC$84,800
CARIBBEAN YOUTH CLUB INC$75,000
PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY NETWORK$65,000
IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC$60,000
BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER$51,000
MOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY$50,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS$50,000
ROCA INC$50,000
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 (FY17–23, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF WESTERN MASS: $13k → 17%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $20k → 11%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $18k → 11%SOUTEAST ASIAN COALITION OF CENTRAL MASSACHUSETTS: $10k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $33k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $29k → 11%ASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE: $20k → 11%HOPEWELL INC: $32k → 7%HOPEWELL INC: $10k → 7%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS (MAPS): $85k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS (MAPS): $64k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $30k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $6k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULATATION SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULATATION SERVICES INC: $5k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $10k → 8%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER: $80k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $60k → 16%IRISH INTERNATIONAL IMMIGRANT CENTER: $35k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $34k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $10k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $10k → 16%HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES: $10k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $25k → 16%FATHERS' UPLIFT INC: $13k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $245k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $200k → 16%RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER: $63k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $7k → 16%CARIBBEAN YOUTH CLUB INC: $75k → 16%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $51k → 16%BRAZILIAN WORKER CENTER: $50k → 16%REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $10k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $24k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $12k → 16%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER: $8k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $110k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $61k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $60k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIL ASSOCIATION INC: $58k → 16%INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE: $50k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $41k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIL ASSOCIATION INC: $25k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $25k → 16%ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT: $20k → 16%ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATIONINC: $15k → 16%BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $10k → 16%IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $60k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
NV
SD
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of The Fish Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Fish Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 108 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +79% since the first grant, against +41% for those funded once.

108 repeat relationships: 65 still active in FY2022, 43 since wound down; 54 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call). Read against FY2022, 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

108
68

Total granted

$8.2M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+79%
+41%

Still filing today

82%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCrime & LegalEnvironmentHealthInternationalOther
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

  • PC
    PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $989k · revenue +101% · 39% of their budget
  • RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $623k · revenue +105%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $596k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEXT CHAPTER BOOK CLUB
    one grant, 2017 · $116k
  • UJ
    US- JAPAN COUNCILgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $107k · revenue +236%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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4
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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5
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.

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6
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…

Education
7
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
10
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
11
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
12
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

174 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 174 of the 239 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
56
Early backer (in before they grew)
169/174
Grantees still filing
137/174
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Boston Foundation Inc: $4,565,057 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $208,180 · Philanthropy+6 more: $98,646 · PhilanthropyFISH FAMILY FOUNDATION JAPAN OFFICE: $372,847 · OtherFISH FAMILY FOUNDATION JAPAN OFFICEAGENCIA ALPHA INC: $262,980 · OtherAGENCIA ALPHA INCPHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY NETWORK: $168,500 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $273,000 · OtherWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTIO…Resilient Coders Inc: $196,525 · OtherABOUT FRESH INC: $160,000 · Other+125 more: $3,298,911 · Other+125 moreRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $622,532 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT…INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $160,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE FOR …MASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $149,300 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS …HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $124,250 · Human ServicesHEALTH LAW ADV…ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $121,100 · Human ServicesACTION FOR BOS…Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $101,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $98,240 · Human ServicesASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $81,300 · Human ServicesCaribbean Youth Club Inc: $75,000 · Human Services+15 more: $341,775 · Human Services+15 morePROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $989,177 · Civil RightsPROJECT CI…ACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $164,500 · Civil RightsACLU FOUND…MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $102,380 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSE…INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $87,500 · Civil RightsINTERNATIO…+2 more: $15,000 · Civil RightsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $595,535 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $147,500 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $143,850 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC: $120,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $58,625 · Youth Development+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $363,809 · HealthDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $138,800 · HealthPARENT PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE INC: $51,960 · HealthDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $27,500 · HealthCoastal Bringing up Down Syndrome of Southeastern: $23,750 · Health+4 more: $31,000 · HealthELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $97,137 · EducationSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $83,120 · EducationFound in Translation Inc: $78,025 · EducationCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $62,875 · EducationENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $53,881 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE: $35,721 · EducationHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $30,450 · EducationCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · Education+7 more: $37,793 · Education
Philanthropy$4,871,883Other$4,732,763Human Services$1,974,497Civil Rights$1,358,557Youth Development$1,070,510Health$636,819Education$499,002

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $4,565,057 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $989,177 over 5y, 39% of budgetRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $622,532 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $595,535 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $363,809 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $273,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc: $208,180 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetResilient Coders Inc: $196,525 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetACLU FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $164,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetABOUT FRESH INC: $160,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC: $160,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $150,747 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ALLIANCE OF PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS INC: $149,300 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetUTEC Inc: $147,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC: $143,850 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING: $138,800 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetHEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC: $124,250 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $121,100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $120,759 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetROCA INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUS- JAPAN COUNCIL: $106,734 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetDUET INC: $103,929 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $102,380 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc: $101,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC: $98,240 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetELLIS EARLY LEARNING INC: $97,137 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $87,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY: $83,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASCENTRIA CARE ALLIANCE INC: $81,300 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJAPAN CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGE INC: $78,750 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $78,025 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetCaribbean Youth Club Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $73,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC: $72,903 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetZUMIX INC: $70,975 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC: $65,825 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $62,875 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetDORCAS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $60,080 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC: $58,625 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $58,300 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetKIND INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC: $53,881 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPARENT PROFESSIONAL ADVOCACY LEAGUE INC: $51,960 over 1y, 4.7% 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…Barr FoundationCombined Jewish Phila…The Klarman Family Fo…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …Health Resources in A…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA89.4× affinity66 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) · Barr Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Klarman Family Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Health Resources in Action 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 Fish Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fish Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 330%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Hopewell Inc: 83% of income from government
  • Boston Area Rape Crisis Center Inc: 82% of income from government
  • Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp: 68% of income from government
  • Management Sciences for Health Inc: 67% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Health Law Advocates Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Justice Resource Institute Inc: 48% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Center for New Americans Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Boston Harbor Now Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc: 43% of income from government
  • Health Resources in Action Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Roots & Dreams and Mustard Seeds Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Health Care for All Inc: 29% of income from government
  • More Than Words Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Uncornered Inc: 24% of income from government
  • International Institute of New England Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Child and Family Services Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated: 22% of income from government
  • Ellis Early Learning Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Asian American Civic Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Balletrox Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Community Health Programs Incorporated: 13% of income from government
  • Salem Pantry Inc: 12% of income from government
  • English for New Bostonians Inc: 11% of income from government
  • La Vida Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Action for Boston Community Development Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Tech Goes Home Incorporated: 10% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc: 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing: 9% of income from government
  • Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center: 8% of income from government
  • Parent Professional Advocacy League Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Granada House Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Brazilian Worker Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Coaching for Change Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Alliance of Portuguese Speakers Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Centro De Los Derechos Del Migrante Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Company One Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England: 2% of income from government
  • Cape Cod Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • The Childrens Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Simmons University: 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Lesley University: 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
  • The Cushman School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
33get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely 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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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 239 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home