· Private foundation
The Gildea Family Foundation Co James A
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k35 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $161k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $21,000 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION | $20,000 |
| LIONHEART FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $15,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $10,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS ROOM | $10,000 |
| A HANDS UP GROUP | $5,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $3,500 |
| OUR FATHERS TABLE | $3,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND | $3,000 |
| KYLE CARES | $2,500 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $2,500 |
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 (FY18–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 78% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +41% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 14 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $143k · revenue +98%- USUnited States Ski Team Foundation6× · 2018–2023 · $120k · revenue +100%
- TLTHE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +177%
Funded once
- FTFAMILY TABLE COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- BEBRACKENRIDGE EDUCATION CENTERone grant, 2022 · $3k
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue -9%
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 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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
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…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
To provide the residents of the health center with the highest level of comprehensive medical care services with a considerate and personal touch.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Saint Francis House 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.
Your grantees are a median of 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 84 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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds United States Ski Team Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LIONHEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds TOUCHSTONE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY TABLE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds KYLECARES INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKES REGION FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF WESTON'S COUNCIL ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds OUR FATHERS TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RELATIONS SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Village Improvement Society of Dennis ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE PARMENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES BLIND GOLF ASSOCIATION ASSOCIATION 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: Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Gildea Family Foundation Co James A 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Old Colony Hospice Inc — 13% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- 47 Palmer Inc — 3% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- Family Table Collaborative Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.