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The Fitzgerald 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $201k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME | $19,000 |
| CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC | $17,500 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $16,000 |
| FAMILYAID BOSTON INC | $16,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $16,000 |
| SMILE TRAIN INC | $16,000 |
| PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $15,000 |
| LA COLABORATIVA INC | $15,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $15,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| MONUMENT SQUARE MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE | $10,000 |
| DIMOCK SUPPORT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| WWP INC - WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC | $9,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $353k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 75% 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 +36% since the first grant, against -14% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +69%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +98%
SMILE TRAIN INC8× · 2018–2025 · $89k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL SOCIETY OF JAMAICA PLAINone grant, 2022 · $15k
- FFFATHER FLANAGANS BOYS HOME - BOYS TOWN NEW YORK INone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UIUNCORNERED INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -14%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
To empower people and enrich their lives, through compassionate support and diverse services, one individual, one family at a time.
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…
Pine street inn housing ii, inc. is a massachusetts not-for-profit corporation, which was organized to provide ten elderly individuals with housing facilities and services at the inn's menino house at geneva avenue in boston,…
As Greater Boston's community foundation, the Boston Foundation devotes its resources to expanding opportunities, improving lives and strengthening communities. See Schedule OThe Foundation fulfills this mission in three principal ways:…
Svp boston, a group of diverse, highly skilled professionals, collaborates with carefully selected boston area nonprofits by investing their time, skills, and money to increase the capacity of these nonprofits to deliver meaningful social…
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,…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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…
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families for Justice As Healing Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 38 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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Boys Town New England Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOSTONS FORGOTTEN FELINES INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEADING HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds HERRING POND WAMPANOAG TRIBE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS VEST-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF ELIOT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BALLETROX INC ↗
- Who funds SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILIES FOR JUSTICE AS HEALING 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 · Edvestors Inc · The Lenny Zakim Fund · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Health Resources in Action Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Fitzgerald Family 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.
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Balletrox Inc — 15% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Eliot School — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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