· Private foundation
The Peace 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RED HOOK INITIATIVE | $3,500 |
| PCRF | $3,500 |
| CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICES (JVS) BOSTON | $2,500 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 66% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RHRED HOOK INITIATIVE5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +13%
- PPCRF3× · 2023–2025 · $9k
- PDPATRICK DALY SCHOOL OF ARTS2× · 2021–2022 · $5k
Funded once
- SISISTERSONG INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +29%
JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -8%- BBBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +103%
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.
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
Digital Ready activates the creative potential of young adults, especially low-income residents, to build tangible pathways to economic opportunities in Boston's innovation economy.
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
Connections work changes lives and improves communities by providing services and supports to individuals seeking pathways to success.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
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…
Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…
To transform our collective capacity to navigate complex legal systems and support safe, thriving, and engaged immigrant communities.
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…
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
To cultivate an engaged community of youth whose powerful artistic voices transform their lives, their neighborhoods and their worlds.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 14 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds SISTERSONG INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH VOCATIONAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK ART PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMUNITY LEARNING CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Cambridge Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Peace Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Peace Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jewish Vocational Service Inc: 39% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc: 20% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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