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The One by One Project Inc

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.

$280k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
24
Grants FY2025
26
Organizations funded FY2024
12%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$7,670
Largest grant, FY2025
$51,498
Organizations funded a year
16 to 26
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$347k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 12% of the organizations The One by One Project Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
Youth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving24$280k8%
FY202426$197k12%
FY202323$169k17%
FY202223$169k52%
FY202116$91kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$265kHousing & Shelter$225kYouth Development$166kEducation$155kHealth$64kCivil Rights$13kCrime & Legal$12kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($361k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The One by One Project Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHorizons for Homeless Children: $144,971 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $78,666 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $48,534 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Community Pediatrics Inc: $43,477 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSouth Sudanese Enrichment for Families Inc: $36,567 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetNurtury Inc: $29,570 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlexander Twilight Academy Inc: $21,820 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFathers Uplift Incorporated: $20,968 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEnroot Inc: $19,031 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHopewell Inc: $15,333 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBagly Inc: $13,486 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Center for Violence Prevention Inc: $11,560 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSteps to Success Inc: $11,558 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUnited South End Settlements: $11,462 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Hyde Square Task Force Inc: $9,244 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWaltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: $8,886 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $3,803 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWelcome Home Inc: $3,388 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetEssex County Community Organization: $3,075 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNewton Food Pantry Inc: $2,310 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPlummer Youth Promise Inc: $2,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Guidance: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeat the Streets New England Inc: $602 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Inc: $569 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLove Your Magic Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 26.

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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.

Boston Foundation IncMA37.2× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Children's Hospital Corporation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Fidelity 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.

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About The One by One Project Inc

How much does The One by One Project Inc give?
The One by One Project Inc reported 24 grants totaling $280,310 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 26 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does The One by One Project Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (29%), Housing & Shelter (25%), Youth Development (18%).
Who are The One by One Project Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Horizons for Homeless Children ($145k), Rosie's Place Inc ($79k), The Epiphany School Inc ($49k).
Does The One by One Project Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The One by One Project Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The One by One Project Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc.
Where is The One by One Project Inc based?
The One by One Project Inc is based in MA.

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 37 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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