· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| SMILE TRAIN INC | $16,000 |
| FAMILYAID BOSTON INC | $16,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORPORATION | $16,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $15,000 |
| PAL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC | $15,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $15,000 |
| LA COLABORATIVA INC | $15,000 |
| DIMOCK SUPPORT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| MONUMENT SQUARE MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| JAMAICA PLAIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $10,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICE | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $9,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against -14% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +91%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $101k · revenue +123%
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 38 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fitzgerald Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fitzgerald Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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