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The Philanthropy Connection Inc

The Philanthropy Connections mission is to inspire, teach, and enable women to engage in collective philanthropy, in order to provide grants to charitable organizations that improve the quality of life for low-resource individuals and families living in Massachusetts.

$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Human Services$526kYouth Development$377kCrime & Legal$302kFood & Nutrition$176kEducation$127kEmployment$125kCivil Rights$100kEnvironment$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$515k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dignity Matters$25,000
Rise Above Foundation$25,000
Mill City Grows$25,000
MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE$25,000
Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice$25,000
BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION$25,000
Young Man with a Plan$25,000
One Can Help$25,000
Women's Money Matters$25,000
Communities for Restorative Justice$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BUDGET BUDDIES INC: $25k → 8%Rise Above Foundation: $25k → 11%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $25k → 16%Dignity Matters: $25k → 11%Dignity Matters: $25k → 11%ENROOT: $25k → 8%ENROOT: $577 → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC: $25k → 8%RESPOND Inc: $25k → 8%Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc: $25k → 16%RESPOND Inc: $25k → 8%Dignity Matters: $25k → 8%Dignity Matters: $25k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25k → 16%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $577 → 8%Fathers' Uplift: $25k → 16%Fathers' Uplift: $25k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $25k → 16%Women's Money Matters: $25k → 16%Friends of the Children: $25k → 16%Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice: $25k → 16%JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM: $577 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of The Philanthropy Connection Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 75% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Philanthropy Connection Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 20 repeat orgs$907k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
43

Total granted

$1.1M
$807k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+112%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsEducationOther

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

  • Dignity Matters Inc
    4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +196%
  • RI
    RIA Inc
    2× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +77%
  • PC
    PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • PA
    POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +223%
  • PF
    PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +70%
  • HC
    Health Care Without Walls Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +132%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
3
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
4
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
5
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
6
Urban Impact Initiative Massachusetts

Urban Impact is dedicated to prioritizing the reduction of the impact of poverty for families in the Commonwealth. The organization offers a plethora of small business corporate and community opportunities. These opportunities include…

Youth Development
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.

Housing & Shelter
8
Digital Ready Inc

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.

Education
9
Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.

Human Services
10
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.

Education
11
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

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

Education
12
Urban Guild Inc

The corporation is organized to improve the quality of life in bostons urban communities by building capacity, environmental health, and providing economic opportunity in a manner that responds directly to community needs, interests, and…

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Latino Stem Alliance. 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 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%2%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr20%22%20–35yr13%17%35–55yr13%10%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%4%<5yr14%10%5–10yr20%46%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/67
the rest of the field
10%
1,769/17,208

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.

05the grantee network

62 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 62 of the 67 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
55/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Dignity Matters Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesDignity Matters IncFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - …RESPOND Inc — $50,000 · Human ServicesRESPOND IncFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Human ServicesFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATE…WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INCENROOT INC — $25,577 · Human ServicesENROOT INCLA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER — $25,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $1,154 · Human ServicesMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $75,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange In…WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER — $50,000 · OtherWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WO…BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $50,000 · OtherBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITIONJUSTICE AT WORK INC — $50,000 · OtherJUSTICE AT WORK INCResilient Coders Inc — $50,000 · OtherResilient Coders IncRIA Inc — $75,000 · OtherRIA IncGREENROOTS INC — $50,000 · OtherGREENROOTS INC+22 more — $379,038 · Other+22 moreNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC — $75,000 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS I…MILL CITY GROWS INC — $25,577 · Food & NutritionMILL CITY G…FOOD LINK INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD LINK I…BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionBOSTON AREA…THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionTHE URBAN F…ROOT NS INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INCYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN W…ONE CAN HELP INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentONE CAN HEL…MINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentMINDS MATTE…APPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentAPPRENTICE …SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLU…LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOUIS D BRO…MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE — $50,000 · Crime & LegalPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC — $26,000 · Crime & LegalPARTAKERS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalLAWYERS CLEARINGHOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS INC — $25,000 · Crime & LegalSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 · EducationBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP — $50,000 · EducationMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC — $25,000 · Education+2 more — $1,154 · EducationPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC — $75,000 · Civil RightsBOSTON CASA INC — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$476,731Other$779,038Food & Nutrition$200,577Youth Development$200,000Crime & Legal$151,000Education$126,154Civil Rights$100,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDignity Matters Inc — $100,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetRIA Inc — $75,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC — $75,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC — $75,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $75,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetJUSTICE AT WORK INC — $50,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetBOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION — $50,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE — $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetBOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP — $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetRESPOND Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetGREENROOTS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetResilient Coders Inc — $50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC — $50,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC — $26,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC — $25,577 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetENROOT INC — $25,577 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHealth Care Without Walls Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetFOOD LINK INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER — $25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPARTAKERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetBOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetONE CAN HELP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetMOTHERS FOR JUSTICE AND EQUALITY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLEAP SELF-DEFENSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetTHE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetMUJERES UNIDAS AVANZANDO INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSTUDENT CLINIC FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetURBAN REVIVAL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROOT NS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetLAWYERS CLEARINGHOUSE ON AFFORDABLE HOUSING AND HOMELESSNESS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetMINDS MATTER OF BOSTON INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budget
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.

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.

Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA104.6× affinity52 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · George H & Jane a Mifflin Memorial Fund · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy 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 Philanthropy Connection 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Respond Inc80% of income from government
  • Partakers Inc59% of income from government
  • Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc44% of income from government
  • Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc43% of income from government
  • La Colaborativa Inc34% of income from government
  • Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp32% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc26% of income from government
  • Fathers Uplift Incorporated22% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc20% of income from government
  • Boston Area Gleaners Inc20% of income from government
  • Doc Wayne Inc15% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc14% of income from government
  • Rise Above Foundation Inc14% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc10% of income from government
  • Metrowest Legal Services Inc10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing9% of income from government
  • Food Link Inc9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc8% of income from government
  • Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center8% of income from government
  • One Can Help Inc8% of income from government
  • School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc7% of income from government
  • Mill City Grows Inc7% of income from government
  • Beyond Soccer Inc7% of income from government
  • Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc5% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc5% of income from government
  • The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc4% of income from government
  • Friends of the Children - Boston Inc4% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc3% of income from government
  • Greenroots Inc1% of income from government
  • Women's Money Matters Inc1% of income from government
  • Justice at Work Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 67 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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