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The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation at a glance

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The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$375k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$728kYouth Development$440kEmployment$387kHealth$160kHuman Services$89kCommunity Improvement$65kPhilanthropy$45kArts & Culture$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$35,000
YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN$25,000
SOCIEDAD LATINA$20,000
HE IS ME INSTITUTE$20,000
STEPS TO SUCCESS INC$20,000
SUMMER SEARCH$20,000
MASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL$20,000
THE URBAN COLLEGE OF BOSTON$20,000
THE BOSTON HIGHER EDUCATION RESOURCE CENTER INC$20,000
LAWRENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC$15,000
WEST END HOUSE INC$15,000
RAW ART WORKS INC$15,000
BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC$15,000
UASPIRE$15,000
ROOTS NS INC$15,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $15k → 10%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $8k → 10%ENROOT INC: $15k → 8%ENROOT INC: $15k → 8%RIAN IMMIGRATION CENTER: $11k → 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.
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 31 repeat orgs$719k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +18% since the first grant, against +4% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
37

Total granted

$1.3M
$564k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+4%

Still filing today

87%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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

  • LF
    LEAP for Education Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $68k · revenue +59%
  • TB
    The Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc
    3× · 2022–2025 · $50k · revenue +97%
  • MC
    MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • NE
    NORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • NORTHEAST ARC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -72%
  • CHICA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue +42%
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 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
2
The Upward Project

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…

Education
3
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

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…

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
6
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

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…

Youth Development
7
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
8
Massachusetts Business Alliance for Education Inc

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.

Education
9
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
10
Digital Ready Inc

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.

Education
11
The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc

To employ, train, and empower youth to, in collaboration with adults, create peace, equity, and justice.

—
12
Greater New Bedford Workforce Investment Board Inc

Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is More Than Words Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 79 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
72/73
Grantees still filing
38/73
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LEAP for Education Inc: $67,500 · EducationLEAP for Education IncThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $50,000 · EducationThe Boston Higher Education Resource C…MV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $50,000 · EducationMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (…FLARE EDUCATION INC: $50,000 · EducationFLARE EDUCATION INCFound in Translation Inc: $45,000 · EducationFound in Translation IncPROJECT LEARN INC: $45,000 · EducationPROJECT LEARN INCJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $45,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INCSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $40,000 · EducationSTEPS TO SUCCESS INCUrban College Of Boston: $35,000 · EducationUASPIRE INC: $35,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $30,000 · Education+15 more: $205,000 · Education+15 moreNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $100,000 · OtherNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGEBHCC FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · OtherBHCC FOUNDATION INCNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIO…MUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO (MUA): $45,000 · OtherMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO (MUA)St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $40,000 · OtherYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC: $30,000 · OtherROOT NS INC: $45,000 · OtherROOT NS INC+23 more: $357,000 · Other+23 moreYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN W…LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BO…UTEC Inc: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC IncCHICA INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHICA INCSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LA…MISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentMISSIONSAFE…+1 more: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $50,000 · EmploymentJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $45,000 · EmploymentTHE LOOP LAB INC: $30,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH: $20,000 · EmploymentResilient Coders Inc: $10,000 · EmploymentBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $35,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $15,000 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyWEST END HOUSE INC: $45,000 · Recreation & SportsEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsENROOT INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE OF GREATER LYNN INC: $7,500 · Human Services
Education$697,500Other$762,000Youth Development$215,000Employment$155,000Philanthropy$75,000Recreation & Sports$65,000Human Services$63,500

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 budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $75,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc: $67,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetThe Boston Higher Education Resource Center Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMV CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND TRAINING (MV: $50,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $50,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFLARE EDUCATION INC: $50,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFound in Translation Inc: $45,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROOT NS INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUrban College Of Boston: $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBunker Hill Community College Foundation Inc: $35,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUTEC Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOOP LAB INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENROOT INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Haven Project Inc: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLA VIDA INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCHICA INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetQuinsigamond Community College Foundation Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOACHING FOR CHANGE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELEVATED THOUGHT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF FALL RIVER MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST LITERACY INC: $15,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncCummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…United Way Of Massach…Amelia Peabody Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…Bushrod H Campbell & …Highland Street Conne…William E Schrafft an…George H & Jane a Mif…The Cabot Family Char…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA78.8× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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 John H and H Naomi Tomfohrde Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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