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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
Dignity Matters Inc4× · 2020–2024 · $100k · revenue +196%- RIRIA Inc2× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +77%
- PCPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC3× · 2020–2023 · $75k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PAPOLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $26k · revenue +223%
- PFPARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +70%
- HCHealth Care Without Walls Incone 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.
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.
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…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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.
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…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
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…
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.
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.
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
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.
To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.
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…
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 field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
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 2017–2025, 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.
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 Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds RIA Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT WORK INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON FOOD FOREST COALITION ↗
- Who funds MABEL CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON EDUCATION SKILLS & TRAINING CORP ↗
- Who funds RESPOND Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Resilient Coders Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHERS UPLIFT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds POLITICAL ASYLUMIMMIGRATION REPRESENTATION PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds ENROOT INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD LINK INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds RISE ABOVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds DE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT FAMILY SERVICES INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds PARTAKERS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ONE CAN HELP INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIPWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR RESTORATIVE JUSTICE 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: 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.
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Partakers Inc — 59% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- Project Citizenship Inc — 10% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
- Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center — 8% of income from government
- One Can Help Inc — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Student Clinic for Immigrant Justice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
- Justice at Work 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.