· Private foundation
The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN | $25,000 |
| HE IS ME INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL | $20,000 |
| THE URBAN COLLEGE OF BOSTON | $20,000 |
| STEPS TO SUCCESS INC | $20,000 |
| THE BOSTON HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC | $20,000 |
| SOCIEDAD LATINA | $20,000 |
| SUMMER SEARCH | $20,000 |
| ROOTS NS INC | $15,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS INC | $15,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC | $15,000 |
| PROJECT LEARN INC | $15,000 |
| THE POSSIBLE PROJECT | $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 (FY20–24, $64k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 59% 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
- LFLEAP for Education Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +59%
- TBThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
- MCMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- NENORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $100k
NORTHEAST ARC INCone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -72%
CHICA INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +42%
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.
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…
To provide low income, first generation students who attend selective colleges the skills and resources they need to succeed in college and graduate prepared for careers in competitive and high wage fields. To seek upward mobility for…
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The massachusetts business alliance for education (mbae) is committed to excellence, opportunity and innovation in our public education system to prepare all students to engage successfully in a global economy and society.
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…
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc and the most unlike its peers is New Garden Society Ltd. 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 31 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 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 79 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 YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FLARE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Found in Translation Inc ↗
- Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Urban College Of Boston ↗
- Who funds Bunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOP LAB INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds CHICA INC ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LA VIDA INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER SEARCH ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds COACHING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds He Is Me Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust
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 John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc — 39% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
- La Vida Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Health Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 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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