· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ROSIES PLACE | $51,498 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,429 |
| BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS | $32,308 |
| BEYOND BOND FUND | $28,736 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $21,294 |
| ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY | $15,158 |
| BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS | $12,763 |
| CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND RECOVERY | $11,560 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $10,749 |
| HOPEWELL | $10,265 |
| SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES | $7,937 |
| NURTURY EARLY EDUCATION | $7,670 |
| ALRAY | $7,371 |
| BAGLY | $6,314 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL REVERE | $4,617 |
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 (FY21–25, $230k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +47%
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +16%
THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- CCCOMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL CAMBRIDGEone grant, 2021 · $2k
- NFNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +90%
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +44%
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.
Our mission is to empower youth who are in foster care, court involved, homeless or out of school to take charge of their lives by taking charge of a business.
At east boston social centers, we cultivate community, belonging, and joy for east boston residents and our neighbors, through services to support children, families, and individuals of all ages.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.
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…
Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.
Project hope is a multi service agency that moves families up and out of poverty.project hope works in partnership with women and families in the dorchester and roxbury neighborhoods of boston on their journeys up and out of poverty. we do…
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
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…
Waltham partnership for youth collaborates with youth, families, and partner organizations to address long-standing systemic inequities while building a community of belonging and opportunity for waltham youth. we envision a world where…
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…
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopewell Inc and the most unlike its peers is Newton Food Pantry Inc. 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 33 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) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds NURTURY INC ↗
- Who funds ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
- Who funds BAGLY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPS TO SUCCESS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS ↗
- Who funds THE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds WELCOME HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Guidance ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREETS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE YOUR MAGIC 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: 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
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 One by One Project Inc 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 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.