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The Outreach 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMBRIDGE COMM FOUNDATION | $7,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $3,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $3,000 |
| BRIDGES HOMEWARD | $2,000 |
| MTPC | $2,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TR | $2,000 |
| JAZZ GALLERY | $2,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT | $2,000 |
| POINT OF PRIDE | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL AUDOBON SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| JAZZ FOUNDATION AMERICA | $1,000 |
| FEATHERSTONE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY3× · 2019–2021 · $45k · revenue +45%
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +41%
- BHBRIDGES HOMEWARD INC6× · 2019–2025 · $13k · revenue +14%
Funded once
BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +49%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%- LDLOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORPgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +27%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jim Collins Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 69 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CAMBRIDGE SCHOOL OF WESTON INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Jim Collins Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds THE JAZZ GALLERY ↗
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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Community Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
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 Outreach 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.
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Theater Offensive Inc — 2% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co 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.
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