· Private foundation
The Herb Chambers Charitable 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k26 grants · $88k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $302k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $769k
- $250k+1 grant · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $12,633,869 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $200,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY | $199,558 |
| DANA-FARBER'S JIMMY FUND CLINIC | $198,878 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC | $120,118 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $49,913 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $25,029 |
| BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS | $25,028 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS OF EASTERN MASS | $25,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $24,708 |
| BURLINGTON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $17,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS | $15,000 |
| BEACON HILL VILLAGE | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $66k 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
- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +218%
- CHCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $625k · revenue +229%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC4× · 2018–2024 · $600k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TBThe Boston Foundation-MA COVID-19 Relief Fundone grant, 2020 · $50k
- NHNAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -48%
- ARAmerican Red Cross of Massone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
Tertiary care academic medical center
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans and the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. 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 35 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
70 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. 70 of the 165 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 MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WORCESTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT MELANOMA INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL TO PREVAIL ↗
- Who funds NAVAL HISTORICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association ↗
- Who funds GS DONOR ADVISED PHILANTHROPY FUND FOR WEALTH MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE 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 · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Herb Chambers Charitable 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.
- Amegoinc — 76% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- Burlington Area Chamber of Commerce — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Impact Melanoma Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.