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THE FURNITURE TRUST ORGANIZATION INC
Environmentally friendly office furniture dispostion - educate corporations and institutions about the benefits of recycling unwanted office furniture, rather than throwing it in a landfill.
$3.8M
Granted FY2024
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01What you fund
01FY2024
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$0
Median grant
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States reached
$982k
Total assets
02The need
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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.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Housing & Shelter
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Massachusetts Affordable Housing
Massachusetts affordable housing alliance, inc. (maha) breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Housing & Shelter
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Boston After School & Beyond Inc
Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…
Education
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East End House Inc
Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.
Human Services
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Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership
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.
Housing & Shelter
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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
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Massachusetts Education & Career
Massedco works to bridge the gap in postsecondary education attainment for low-income, first generation youth and adults in massachusetts.
Education
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The Boston Children's School Inc
To provide early education for pre-school children thru the early grades up to k-2. admittance is open to all children.
Education
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Broccoli Hall Inc
Not-for-profit educational institution
Education
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The Boston Higher Education
The Boston Higher Education Resource Center equips first generation youth to obtain a higher education, break the cycle of poverty, and become agents of changes in their communities.
Education
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Boston Senior Home Care Inc
Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.
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Emmanuel College
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with over 2,046 undergraduate and graduate students.
Education
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boston's Higher Ground Inc and the most unlike its peers is Build Health International 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.
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
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 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
9%
2,259/24,087
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.
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.
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA31.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Metro North Regional Employment · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Eastern Cambridge Foundation Inc · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc
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.
04Through Plinth
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How do I get to The Furniture Trust Organization Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Furniture Trust Organization Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines