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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 FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $179k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$7,670
Median grant
2
States reached
$347k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION AND RECOVERY: $12k → 10%HOPEWELL: $10k → 7%HOPEWELL: $3k → 7%HOPEWELL: $2k → 7%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $4k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $4k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $3k → 16%UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $700 → 16%ENROOT: $6k → 8%ENROOT: $6k → 8%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $2k → 10%ENROOT: $3k → 8%ENROOT: $3k → 8%ENROOT: $1k → 8%WELCOME HOME: $2k → 8%FATHERS UPLIFT: $14k → 16%WELCOME HOME: $2k → 8%WELCOME HOME: $710 → 8%WELCOME HOME: $25 → 8%FATHERS UPLIFT: $5k → 16%FATHERS UPLIFT: $2k → 16%FATHERS UPLIFT: $389 → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $43k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $32k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $26k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $23k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $21k → 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$884k · 27 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
8

Total granted

$884k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+87%

Still filing today

70%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterHealthOther
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

  • HF
    HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $145k · revenue +47%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $79k · revenue +16%
  • THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $49k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • CC
    COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL CAMBRIDGE
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
  • NF
    NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +90%
  • PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +44%
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
More Than Words Inc

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.

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2
East Boston Social Centers Inc

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.

Human Services
3
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
4
Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc

Empowering children, young adults and families to achieve greater independence and emotional well-being.

Human Services
5
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
6
Familyaid Boston Inc

Familyaid boston empowers parents and caregivers facing homelessness to secure and sustain housing and build strong foundations for their children's futures.

—
7
Project Hope Boston Inc

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…

Human Services
8
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
9
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
10
Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc

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…

Human Services
11
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
12
Northeast Center for Youth and Families Inc

Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hopewell Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS: $120,284 · OtherBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERSBEYOND BOND FUND: $114,109 · OtherBEYOND BOND FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $61,107 · OtherIndividual grant recipientNURTURY INC: $29,570 · OtherNURTURY INCFAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE: $28,146 · OtherFAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHOREMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL REVERE: $20,976 · Other+8 more: $39,128 · Other+8 moreHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $144,971 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDR…FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED: $20,968 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATEDENROOT INC: $19,031 · Human ServicesENROOT INCHOPEWELL INC: $15,333 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INCTHE CENTER FOR VIOLENCE PREVENTION INC: $11,560 · Human ServicesUNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS: $11,462 · Human Services+2 more: $5,456 · Human ServicesTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $48,534 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY S…SOUTH SUDANESE ENRICHMENT FOR FAMILIES INC: $36,567 · EducationSOUTH SUDANESE…ALEXANDER TWILIGHT ACADEMY INC: $21,820 · EducationALEXANDER TWIL…STEPS TO SUCCESS INC: $11,558 · EducationSTEPS TO SUCCE…+1 more: $1,200 · EducationROSIE'S PLACE INC: $78,666 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PL…+1 more: $1,500 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON COMMUNITY PEDIATRICS INC: $43,477 · HealthTHE HYDE SQUARE TASK FORCE INC: $9,244 · Community ImprovementESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $3,075 · Community ImprovementBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $3,803 · Youth DevelopmentBEAT THE STREETS NEW ENGLAND INC: $602 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INC: $569 · Youth DevelopmentLOVE YOUR MAGIC INC: $300 · Youth DevelopmentNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,310 · Food & Nutrition
Other$413,320Human Services$228,781Education$119,679Housing & Shelter$80,166Health$43,477Community Improvement$12,319Youth Development$5,274Food & Nutrition$2,310

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

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
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.

  • 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 ↗

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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…Cummings Foundation G…The New England Patri…American Tower Corpor…Children's Hospital C…The Hamilton Company …Rockland Trust Charit…Liberty Mutual Founda…Combined Jewish Phila…Fidelity Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The One by One Project Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The One by One Project Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 21%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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.

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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