· Private foundation
The Hyams Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k15 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k36 grants · $913k
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.5M
- $250k+2 grants · $745k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alternatives for Community and Environment Inc | $420,000 |
| Third Sector New England Inc | $325,000 |
| Urban Revival Inc | $205,000 |
| Resist Inc | $202,500 |
| Urban Revival Inc | $190,000 |
| Resist Inc | $159,000 |
| Neighbor To Neighbor Massachusetts Education Fund Inc | $151,000 |
| Center for Labor Education and Research Inc | $142,000 |
| The City School Inc | $110,000 |
| Boston Impact Initiative Fund | $105,500 |
| La Colaborativa Inc | $102,500 |
| Center for Economic Democracy | $102,249 |
| Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Inc | $100,000 |
| Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc | $100,000 |
| Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc | $100,000 |
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, $4.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 99% 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 +70% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
133 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +44%- RIRESIST INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +242%
COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +43% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- URUrban Revival Inc (City LifeVida Urbana)one grant, 2023 · $445k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $150k
- WCWHEELOCK COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $132k
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 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…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…
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.
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Four Corners Action Coalition. 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 30 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
187 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. 187 of the 275 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
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
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 THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds RESIST INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN REVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds The City School Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Brazilian Worker Center Inc ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Four Corners Action Coalition ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TENANT COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO PRESENTE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC 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: Barr Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Herman and Frieda L Miller Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Haymarket People's Fund Inc · Nellie Mae Education Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Josephine and Louise Crane 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 Hyams Foundation Inc 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Project Right — 71% of income from government
- Youthbuild Global Inc — 69% of income from government
- Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp — 68% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Pioneer Valley Workers Center Inc — 53% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Multicultural Aids Coalition Inc — 41% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Health Resources in Action Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Citizens' Housing and Planning Association Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc — 19% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Massachusetts Coalition for Occupational Safety and Health Inc — 11% of income from government
- South Boston En Accion Inc — 10% of income from government
- Commonwealth Kitchen Inc — 9% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc — 8% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Brazilian Worker Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Spontaneous Celebrations Inc — 5% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Transformative Culture Project Inc F/K/a Press Pass Tv Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Resist Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brazilian Women's Group Inc — 0% of income from government
- Bams Fest Inc — 0% of income from government
- Asian American Resource Workshop Inc — 0% of income from government
- Massachusetts Nonprofit Network — 0% of income from government
- Community Labor United Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Justice at Work Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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