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The MSLPJ Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$3.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$1.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192025.

Education$5.1MHealth$2.0MEnvironment$575kReligion$380kYouth Development$375kRecreation & Sports$125kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k7 grants · $800k
  • $250k+3 grants · $2.3M
$150,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boston College High School$1,250,000
CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$750,000
Church of the Blessed Sacrament$330,000
Cleveland Clinic Foundation$200,000
The Trustees of Reservations$150,000
Crossover Mission Inc$125,000
Partnership to End Addiction$100,000
Education Foundation of Indian River County Inc$100,000
BPS FOUNDATION$75,000
Trustees of Boston College$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Trustees of Boston College: $575k → 7%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $750k → 8%Boston College High School: $1.3M → 16%Partnership to End Addiction: $100k → 17%Holy Cross Catholic Church: $50k → 12%BPS FOUNDATION: $75k → 13%Trustees of Boston College: $400k → 7%CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $750k → 8%Boston College High School: $1.3M → 16%Partnership to End Addiction: $100k → 17%Crossover Mission Inc: $250k → 12%BPS FOUNDATION: $50k → 13%Trustees of Boston College: $50k → 7%Boston College High School: $1.3M → 16%Partnership to End Addiction: $100k → 17%Crossover Mission Inc: $125k → 12%Church of the Blessed Sacrament: $330k → 7%The Trustees of Reservations: $275k → 16%The Trustees: $150k → 16%The Trustees of Reservations: $150k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.8M · 8 repeat orgs$680k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

$7.8M
$50k

Still filing today

75%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $630k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +12%
  • CM
    CROSSOVER MISSION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $375k · revenue +36%
  • BF
    BPS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +194%

Funded once

  • HC
    Holy Cross Catholic Church
    one grant, 2022 · $50k

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

04Your field
04the grantee network

7 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL — $3,750,000 · OtherBOSTON COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOLCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — $1,500,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONCHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT — $330,000 · OtherCHURCH OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENTCleveland Clinic Foundation — $200,000 · Other+2 more — $175,000 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,025,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTO…THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 · EducationTHE LEARNING ALLI…THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC — $100,000 · EducationTHE EDUCATION FOU…THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $575,000 · EnvironmentCROSSOVER MISSION INC — $375,000 · Youth DevelopmentPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $300,000 · Health
Other$5,955,000Education$1,325,000Environment$575,000Youth Development$375,000Health$300,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,025,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $575,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCROSSOVER MISSION INC — $375,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetPARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION — $300,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC — $200,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBPS FOUNDATION — $125,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
  • Who funds CROSSOVER MISSION INC
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP TO END ADDICTION
  • Who funds THE LEARNING ALLIANCE INC
  • Who funds BPS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The MSLPJ 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.

2023
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • The Trustees of Reservations6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • The Learning Alliance Inc0% of income from government
  • Crossover Mission Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $3.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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