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The Flatley Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33M
Granted FY2024still arriving
159
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Education$44MHealth$38MReligion$17MInternational$15MHuman Services$9.0MHousing & Shelter$6.2MYouth Development$4.1MPhilanthropy$3.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 159 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k114 grants · $12M
  • $250k+32 grants · $20M
$100,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$691M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON COLLEGE$5,000,000
ACEING AUTISM INC$1,500,000
AMERICARES INC$1,000,000
CARE USA$1,000,000
BRIGHAM & WOMENS HOSPITAL$1,000,000
AMERICARES INC$1,000,000
JETT FOUNDATION INC$1,000,000
SAINT BENEDICT ACADEMY$1,000,000
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER$500,000
AMERICARES INC$500,000
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC$500,000
TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND INC$500,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES BOSTON$450,000
FUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC$400,000
COMPASSIONATE CARE ALS$385,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $8.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $250k → 8%ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $250k → 8%ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $200k → 8%ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE: $200k → 8%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $250k → 8%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $500k → 11%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $150k → 8%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $250k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $200k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $200k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $200k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $200k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES: $100k → 11%MY BROTHER'S KEEPER: $100k → 11%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $125k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $110k → 16%ROAD TO RESPONSIBILITY: $100k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $100k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $100k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $350k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $300k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $100k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $200k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $125k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $100k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $100k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $100k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $100k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $100k → 8%MARIA DROSTE CONSELING SERVICES: $250k → 7%MARIA DROSTE CONSELING SERVICES: $100k → 7%SOUTH SHORE YMCA: $100k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $100k → 7%MARIA DROSTE CONSELING SERVICES: $100k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
NC
DC
HI
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$131M · 158 repeat orgs$8.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

158 repeat relationships — 121 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

158
34

Total granted

$131M
$4.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+33%

Still filing today

56%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.3M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $7.8M · revenue +28%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.5M · revenue +50%
  • AA
    ACEING AUTISM INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +112% · 87% of their budget

Funded once

  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • CO
    CHURCH OF THE HOLY FAMILY
    one grant, 2023 · $630k
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA
    one grant, 2020 · $400k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
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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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
5
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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6
Northeastern University
Education
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Mcphs University

Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.

Education
9
The Mercy Hospital Inc

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…

Health
10
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
11
St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc

St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…

Unclassified
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Project Rise. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Philanthropic Founda…Youth Sports ProgramsNew England Land Conservati…Faith-Based CongregationsRegional Health Systems & S…Philanthropic Grantmaking F…Innovation & Systems ChangeMedical Research & Disease …Affordable Housing Developm…Early Childhood and Element…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 44 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%7%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr14%36%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr13%36%35–55yr14%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/140
the rest of the field
11%
4,222/37,128

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.

04the grantee network

116 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. 116 of the 216 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/116
Grantees still filing
92/116
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON — $11,063,333 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTONMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $10,550,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED+126 more — $47,707,946 · Other+126 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $6,522,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTO…SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $2,600,000 · EducationSAINT ANSELM COLL…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS …WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,400,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITU…CHESTERTON ACADEMY — $1,250,000 · EducationCHESTERTON ACADEM…THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $1,250,000 · EducationTHE CATHOLIC UNIV…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $1,000,000 · EducationST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC — $1,000,000 · Education+16 more — $4,394,000 · Education+16 moreACEING AUTISM INC — $5,500,000 · HealthACEING AUTISM IN…ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC — $4,441,000 · HealthADULT & TEEN CHA…JETT FOUNDATION INC — $3,150,000 · HealthJETT FOUNDATION …BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,600,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL C…St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD — $1,300,000 · HealthSt Rock Haiti Fo…GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $1,100,000 · HealthGLOBAL TEEN CHAL…CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,050,000 · Health+10 more — $2,185,000 · Health+10 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $7,800,000 · InternationalAMERICARE…COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,580,000 · InternationalCOOPERATI…THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,150,000 · InternationalTHE IRISH…FRIENDS OF THE ORPHANS D/B/A NPH-USA — $400,000 · International+2 more — $450,000 · InternationalCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $2,255,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $2,105,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $1,275,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC — $975,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $950,000 · Human ServicesSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $650,000 · Human ServicesMARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $570,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $535,000 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds Inc — $420,000 · Human Services+5 more — $1,160,000 · Human ServicesHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $1,500,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $825,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $700,000 · Housing & ShelterFINAL SALUTE INC — $500,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC — $435,000 · Housing & ShelterHospitality Homes Inc — $350,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,600,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $50,000 · Community Improvement
Other$69,321,279Education$22,016,000Health$20,326,000International$11,380,000Human Services$10,895,000Housing & Shelter$5,410,000Community Improvement$2,650,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $7,800,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $6,522,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetACEING AUTISM INC — $5,500,000 over 5y, 87% of budgetADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC — $4,441,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetJETT FOUNDATION INC — $3,150,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSAINT ANSELM COLLEGE — $2,600,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $2,600,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompassionate Care ALS Inc — $2,255,000 over 5y, 25% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc — $2,105,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $1,600,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $1,580,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC — $1,500,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $1,500,000 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $1,400,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSt Rock Haiti Foundation LTD — $1,300,000 over 5y, 28% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $1,275,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCHESTERTON ACADEMY — $1,250,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA — $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $1,150,000 over 5y, 39% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $1,109,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetGLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC — $1,100,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC — $1,100,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,050,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE — $1,000,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $1,000,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC — $1,000,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC — $975,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC — $950,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC — $900,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $825,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $750,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC — $700,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $700,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Association — $650,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetThe PLUS Company Inc — $600,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHOOPS AND HOMEWORK INC — $600,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetMARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC — $570,000 over 5y, 22% of budgetBOSTON HIGASHI SCHOOL INC — $560,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $535,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBETHANY HEALTH CARE CENTER INC — $510,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFOUNDATION TO ADVANCE CATHOLIC EDUCATION INC — $500,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetPROVISION MINISTRY INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFINAL SALUTE INC — $500,000 over 5y, 26% of budgetLABOURE COLLEGE OF HEALTHCARE INC — $500,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetElon University — $485,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $450,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTRIVIUM SCHOOL INC — $450,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $435,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budget
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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ACEING AUTISM INC ↗
  • Who funds ADULT & TEEN CHALLENGE NEW ENGLAND AND NEW JERSEY INC ↗
  • Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SAINT ANSELM COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
  • Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
  • Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHESTERTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds THE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL TEEN CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S ONCOLOGY SERVICES OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
  • Who funds ST BENEDICT CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER 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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Rockland Trust Charit…Rockland Trust - Blue…Yawkey Foundation IIBoston Foundation IncThe Bay State Federal…South Shore Bank Char…Catholic Schools Foun…Fidelity FoundationThe Lynch FoundationThe Harborone Foundat…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA67.7× affinity45 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bay State Federal Savings Charitable Foundation · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · The Harborone Foundation

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 Flatley 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 430%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Road to Responsibility Inc — 92% of income from government
  • The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
  • House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Clinical & Support Options Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Quincy Community Action Programs Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Boston Higashi School Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
  • Lasell University — 4% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Regis College — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hyannis Public Library — 0% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Ave Maria University Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
43get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Flatley Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Flatley 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 216 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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