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The Single Step 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEVERLY HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| BOSTON'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $5,100 |
| SQUASHBUSTERS | $527 |
| ACORD FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC6× · 2019–2024 · $106k · revenue +111%- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +55%
- BSBROOKS SCHOOL2× · 2022–2023 · $6k · revenue +42%
Funded once
NORTHEAST ARC INCone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -70%
BACKYARD GROWERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +51%
PINE STREET INN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +80%
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.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.
Provide private school education for children from nursery school through grade 8
Corwin-russell school at broccoli hall has a single goal. rooted in the latin "educare," we define ourselves as leading students to discover and develop the best in themselves: academically, creatively, socially, personally. in an…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
It is the mission of the natural resources trust of easton (nrt) to educate the public of significant natural and cultural resources and to acquire and preserve land of special character for the benefit of the public.
The mission of gore place is to preserve and promote the 1806 country estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century american life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is African Wildlife Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 24 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 PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY ANIMAL LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ACORD INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE NORDIC ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America 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 Single Step 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Acord Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% 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.
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