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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 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, FY2017 to 2024.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%BUDGET BUDDIES INC: $25k → 8%Rise Above Foundation: $25k → 11%Dignity Matters: $25k → 11%Dignity Matters: $25k → 11%Chelsea Collaborative Inc: $25k → 16%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%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25k → 16%Dignity Matters: $25k → 8%Dignity Matters: $25k → 8%CAMBODIAN MUTUAL ASSISTANCE: $577 → 8%Fathers' Uplift: $25k → 16%Fathers' Uplift: $25k → 16%Friends of the Children: $25k → 16%Women's Money Matters: $25k → 16%REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $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
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 25% of The Philanthropy Connection Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 75%.

The Philanthropy Connection Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+77%
+103%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

62 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. 62 of the 67 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)
42
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/62
Grantees still filing
55/62
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bushrod H Campbell & …The Cabot Family Char…Rockland Trust Charit…George H & Jane a Mif…Agnes M Lindsay TrustUnited Way Of Massach…Combined Jewish Phila…Adelard & Valeda Roy …
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

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 Philanthropy Connection Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Philanthropy Connection Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
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, 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 67 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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