· Public charity
The Red Sox Foundation Inc
The red sox foundation's mission is to harness the passion of red sox nation to make a difference in the lives of children, veterans, families and our communities in need throughout new england by improving their health, educational and recreational opportunities.
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.
The 53 grants below total $4,351,613 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $7,478,513 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,126,900 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k42 grants · $681k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $357k
- $250k+2 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MGH HOME BASE PROGRAM | $2,846,386 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $427,782 |
| BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $107,098 |
| NEW COMMONWEALTH RACIAL EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE | $50,000 |
| CITY OF WINDTHORST | $40,000 |
| TYPE ONE INC | $30,000 |
| CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL BOSTON | $25,000 |
| BOSTON ATHLETIC ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| CAMP HARBORVIEW FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CENTER FOR GUN VIOL | $25,000 |
| SHERRILL HOUSE INC | $25,000 |
| UNITED SOUTH END SETTLEMENTS | $25,000 |
| BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY | $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, $742k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
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 +37% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
75 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 47 since wound down; 24 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $414k 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
- TSTHE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +51%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC6× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +49%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +132%
Funded once
- BCBoston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Officeone grant, 2020 · $287k · revenue -100%
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONone grant, 2021 · $250k · revenue +8%- MGMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2022 · $154k
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
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,…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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,…
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
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.…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is The Gustavo Posse Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 30 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
209 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 209 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE SPORTS MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Families Reaching Into Each New Day Inc dba FRIENDS WAY ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE ANGELS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TEDDY EBERSOLS RED SOX FIELDS INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
- Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds Whittier Street Health Center Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DAVID ORTIZ CHILDREN'S FUND ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR LEE COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EDWARD M KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE UNITED STATES SENATE INC ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST FLORIDA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Houston Habitat for Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds JACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENLEY JANSEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN W RICHARD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II
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 Red Sox Foundation 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.
- The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc — 81% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Southwest Florida Community Foundation Inc — 69% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Redlands Christian Migrant Association Inc — 51% of income from government
- Museum of African American History Inc — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Bagly Inc — 39% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc — 31% of income from government
- Sherrill House Inc — 31% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Vermont Center for Independent Living Inc — 29% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Fenway Community Center at Viridian Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hannah's House Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc — 4% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lee Memorial Hospital Inc — 1% of income from government
- The United Way of Lee County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The New England Council Inc — 0% of income from government
- National Braille Press Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.