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The Hyams Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$6.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
109
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$420k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$11MCommunity Improvement$9.5MHousing & Shelter$4.3MCrime & Legal$3.2MHuman Services$2.8MPhilanthropy$2.6MYouth Development$1.8MEnvironment$1.7MOther$0
02FY2024 · 109 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k15 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $913k
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $4.5M
  • $250k+2 grants · $745k
$50,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$144M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc$100,000
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc$100,000
Massachusetts Law Reform Institute Inc$100,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $61k → 17%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $50k → 17%Pioneer Valley Project Inc: $50k → 17%The City School Inc: $325k → 16%The City School Inc: $165k → 16%The City School Inc: $165k → 16%The City School Inc: $155k → 16%The City School Inc: $110k → 16%The City School: $100k → 16%The City School Inc: $81k → 16%The City School: $65k → 16%The City School: $60k → 16%The City School Inc: $44k → 16%La Colaborativa Inc: $103k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $100k → 16%The City School Inc: $115k → 16%La Colaborativa Inc: $78k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $75k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $50k → 16%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $50k → 16%Ayni Institute Inc: $62k → 16%AYNI Institute Inc: $50k → 16%Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $90k → 16%Immigrant Family Services Institute: $65k → 16%Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $45k → 16%Immigrant Family Services Institute: $40k → 16%AYNI Institute: $50k → 16%Ayni Institute Inc: $40k → 16%Project RIGHT Inc: $50k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $181k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: $180k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $101k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop: $70k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop In: $70k → 16%Asian American Resource Workshop Inc: $64k → 16%South Boston en Accion Inc: $45k → 16%YWCA Boston: $45k → 16%African Community Economic Development of New England: $45k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $75k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $64k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $62k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $60k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $50k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $50k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $50k → 16%Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $45k → 16%Brazilian Womens Group Inc: $45k → 16%Brazilian Women's Group Inc: $45k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CA
VA
MD
TN
SC
DC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$37M · 133 repeat orgs$3.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

133
122

Total granted

$37M
$3.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+38%

Still filing today

77%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Community ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyEducationHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +44%
  • RI
    RESIST INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +242%
  • COMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +43% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

  • UR
    Urban Revival Inc (City LifeVida Urbana)
    one grant, 2023 · $445k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $150k
  • WC
    WHEELOCK COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $132k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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2
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
3
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

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…

Education
4
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
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
Urban Guild Inc

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…

Community Improvement
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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
8
Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc

We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.

Arts & Culture
9
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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10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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12
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

187 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
71
Early backer (in before they grew)
179/187
Grantees still filing
135/187
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RESIST INC: $1,708,697 · OtherRESIST INCURBAN REVIVAL INC: $1,484,878 · OtherURBAN REVIVAL INCCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $1,089,500 · OtherCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATIONMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc: $593,500 · Other+118 more: $12,068,308 · Other+118 moreTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,391,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLA…CENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $1,232,385 · Community ImprovementCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DE…ALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $1,026,200 · Community ImprovementALTERNATIVES FOR COMMU…MASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $682,000 · Community ImprovementMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNIT…DUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $660,606 · Community ImprovementDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBOR…BOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $580,500 · Community ImprovementBOSTON IMPACT INITIATI…COMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $459,435 · Community ImprovementCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN I…Greater Four Corners Action Coalition: $435,000 · Community Improvement+11 more: $774,453 · Community Improvement+11 moreCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $1,552,200 · Civil RightsCOMMUNITY LABOR…CENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $746,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR LABO…RIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $714,500 · Civil RightsRIGHT TO THE CI…MASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC: $519,000 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS S…Massachusetts Voter Education Network Inc: $465,000 · Civil RightsMassachusetts V…MASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $384,900 · Civil RightsMASSACHUSETTS A…MUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE: $320,000 · Civil RightsMUSLIM JUSTICE …MASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsCAIR-MA INC: $230,000 · Civil Rights+4 more: $486,050 · Civil Rights+4 moreThe City School Inc: $1,473,000 · Human ServicesThe City Sch…ASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $803,807 · Human ServicesASIAN AMERIC…Brazilian Worker Center Inc: $456,000 · Human ServicesBrazilian Wo…LA COLABORATIVA INC: $455,500 · Human ServicesLA COLABORAT…IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $330,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FA…BRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $305,000 · Human ServicesBRAZILIAN WO…AYNI INSTITUTE INC: $262,103 · Human ServicesAYNI INSTITU…PIONEER VALLEY PROJECT INC: $160,603 · Human Services+7 more: $485,000 · Human Services+7 moreMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC: $781,000 · Crime & LegalMASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP: $565,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $426,309 · Crime & LegalCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC: $400,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO PRESENTE INC: $335,000 · Crime & Legal+1 more: $75,000 · Crime & LegalBoston Foundation Inc: $587,576 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $454,840 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc: $150,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc: $100,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $85,560 · PhilanthropyBEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE: $70,000 · PhilanthropyCouncil on Foundations Inc: $63,300 · Philanthropy+10 more: $286,500 · PhilanthropyBOSTON TENANT COALITION INC: $410,000 · Housing & ShelterMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $335,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC: $270,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $250,707 · Housing & ShelterFENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $240,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAMESE AMERICAN INITIATIVE FOR DEVELOPMENT INC: $130,000 · Housing & ShelterHOMES FOR FAMILIES INC: $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$16,944,883Community Improvement$8,241,579Civil Rights$5,667,650Human Services$4,731,013Crime & Legal$2,582,309Philanthropy$1,797,776Housing & Shelter$1,760,707

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $2,391,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetRESIST INC: $1,708,697 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY LABOR UNITED INC: $1,552,200 over 8y, 29% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC: $1,484,878 over 7y, 23% of budgetThe City School Inc: $1,473,000 over 8y, 21% of budgetCENTER FOR ECONOMIC DEMOCRACY INC: $1,232,385 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION: $1,089,500 over 8y, 32% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR COMMUNITY AND ENVIRONMENT INC: $1,026,200 over 4y, 12% of budgetASIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE WORKSHOP INC: $803,807 over 8y, 19% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC: $781,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetCENTER FOR LABOR EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $746,000 over 5y, 47% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $714,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS COMMUNITIES ACTION NETWORK INC: $682,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INC: $660,606 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetMassachusetts Budget and Policy Center Inc: $593,500 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $587,576 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON IMPACT INITIATIVE FUND: $580,500 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE CORP: $565,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SENIOR ACTION COUNCIL INC: $519,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetGREENROOTS INC: $505,412 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetMassachusetts Voter Education Network Inc: $465,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetCOMMONWEALTH KITCHEN INC: $459,435 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetBrazilian Worker Center Inc: $456,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $455,500 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $454,840 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetGreater Four Corners Action Coalition: $435,000 over 3y, 44% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CIVIL RIGHTS INC: $426,309 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBOSTON TENANT COALITION INC: $410,000 over 8y, 31% of budgetCITIZENS FOR JUVENILE JUSTICE INC: $400,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS ADVOCATES FOR CHILDREN INC: $384,900 over 7y, 5.5% of budgetCENTRO PRESENTE INC: $335,000 over 7y, 18% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AFFORDABLE HOUSING ALLIANCE INC: $335,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC: $330,000 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetMUSLIM JUSTICE LEAGUE: $320,000 over 8y, 37% of budgetBLACK ECONOMIC COUNCIL OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $315,052 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetJUSTICE AT WORK INC: $314,500 over 7y, 12% of budgetBRAZILIAN WOMEN'S GROUP INC: $305,000 over 8y, 15% of budgetBAGLY INC: $295,000 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetUTEC Inc: $276,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON AFFORDABLE HOUSING COALITION INC: $270,000 over 7y, 28% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC: $270,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetBOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE: $270,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $269,478 over 5y, 14% of budgetAYNI INSTITUTE INC: $262,103 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetTHE LENNY ZAKIM FUND: $260,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetBOSTON NEIGHBORHOOD COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC: $250,707 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS IMMIGRANT AND REFUGEE ADVOCACY COALITION INC: $250,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $245,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Barr FoundationBoston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Herman and Frieda L M…United Way Of Massach…Children's Hospital C…Cummings Foundation G…Haymarket People's Fu…Nellie Mae Education …Health Resources in A…Liberty Mutual Founda…Josephine and Louise …
Barr FoundationMA120.7× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Hyams Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hyams Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 520%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
52get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Hyams Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 275 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home