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The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$6.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
58
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$2.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE ROBERT AND MICHELLE COOKE ATCHINSON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 58 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k36 grants · $806k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.4M
  • $250k+4 grants · $4.1M
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR$2,250,000
WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION$1,000,000
CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS$525,020
UPSTREAM$300,000
CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION$200,000
NANTUCKET BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$185,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER CENTRAL MASSMETROWEST$150,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$125,000
THE BOSTON FOUNDATION$120,000
SHARE WINTER FOUNDATION$100,000
THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC$100,000
THE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$100,000
MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC$100,000
HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN$85,000
NANTUCKET COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$50,000
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 (FY18–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OLD COLONY YMCA: $25k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $50k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $10k → 8%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $25k → 16%YOUTH VILLAGES: $5k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $60k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $40k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $4k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $2k → 16%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $25k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $165k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $100k → 8%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $40k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $4k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $335k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $105k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $100k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $85k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $50k → 16%HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $25k → 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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 17% of The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation’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.

The Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundationlessmore 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$26M · 53 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
24

Total granted

$26M
$585k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • RB
    Ron Burton Training Village Inc
    7× · 2018–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +479%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $970k · revenue +263%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $825k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • OL
    OUR LADY OF PERPETUAL HELP MISSION GRAMMAR SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $125k
  • U
    UPSTREAM
    one grant, 2019 · $100k
  • BC
    BOSTON'S CHILDRENS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

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.

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Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Trustees of Boston University

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.…

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4
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
5
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
6
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
7
The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc

Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.

Human Services
8
Neighborhealth Corporation

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,…

Health
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…

Health
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Bullpen Project Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyMedical Research Infrastruc…Private Recreational ClubsLand and Waterfront Conserv…Philanthropic FoundationsEarly Childhood Care CentersCommunity Development Organ…Homeless Services & Recover…Local History & Heritage Or…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr18%33%20–35yr12%13%35–55yr13%31%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr15%13%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr13%45%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
12%
5,349/43,149

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

72 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. 72 of the 97 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
71/72
Grantees still filing
54/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR — $5,552,500 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EARFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INC — $4,475,020 · OtherFUND FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS INCSAINT CECILIA PARISH — $1,270,000 · OtherSAINT CECILIA PARISHRon Burton Training Village Inc — $1,210,000 · OtherRon Burton Training Village IncShare Winter Foundation — $750,000 · Other+50 more — $4,817,850 · Other+50 moreUpstream USA Inc — $2,400,000 · HealthUpstream US…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $350,000 · HealthDana-Farber…Children's Hospital Corporation — $125,000 · Health+7 more — $114,450 · HealthCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $970,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $825,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $110,000 · Youth Development+2 more — $38,000 · Youth DevelopmentYEAR UP INC — $1,000,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $325,000 · EducationTHE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC — $190,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $135,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $100,000 · Education+4 more — $116,905 · EducationHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $800,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $330,000 · Human ServicesST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $75,000 · Human Services+4 more — $78,020 · Human ServicesWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $1,000,000 · Science & TechNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $242,500 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation Inc — $240,000 · PhilanthropyBoston Bullpen Project Inc — $95,000 · PhilanthropyGAVIN FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $60,000 · PhilanthropyTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $50,000 · PhilanthropyGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC — $35,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $950 · Philanthropy
Other$18,075,370Health$2,989,450Youth Development$1,943,000Education$1,866,905Human Services$1,508,020Science & Tech$1,000,000Philanthropy$863,450

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUpstream USA Inc — $2,400,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetRon Burton Training Village Inc — $1,210,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $1,000,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $970,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC — $825,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $800,000 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetShare Winter Foundation — $750,000 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $600,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC — $488,150 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $350,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC — $330,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $325,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $320,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $242,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $240,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC — $225,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC — $190,000 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $165,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $145,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $135,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $125,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $125,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $110,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOLAR ATHLETES INC — $100,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBoston Bullpen Project Inc — $95,000 over 4y, 8.2% of budgetGAVIN FOUNDATION INC — $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE CAROLINAS — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC — $46,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBLUE STAR FAMILIES INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE — $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH VILLAGES INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGOLF FIGHTS CANCER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC — $33,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARK STREET SCHOOL INC — $31,905 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetOne Summit Inc — $30,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE HONOR FOUNDATION INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMedicine for Humanity — $30,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA — $28,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds Upstream USA Inc ↗
  • Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MASS /METROWEST INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Share Winter Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET GOLF CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST BONIFACE HAITI FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARANYUNDO INITIATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds SCHOLAR ATHLETES INC ↗
  • Who funds Boston Bullpen Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds GAVIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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.

Boston Foundation IncCombined Jewish Phila…GivenGain Foundation …Highland Street Conne…The Ayco Charitable F…Arbella Insurance Fou…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Edgerley Family F…The Lynch FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…Analog Devices Founda…Boston Bruins Charita…
Boston Foundation IncMA36.1× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Edgerley Family Foundation · The Lynch Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Analog Devices Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Robert and Michelle Cooke Atchinson Foundation 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Maranyundo Initiative Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Upstream Usa Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 97 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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