· Private foundation
The TCO Charitable Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catie's Closet | $10,000 |
| MSCPA Educational Foundation | $5,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank | $5,000 |
| Compassionate Care ALS Inc | $3,276 |
| YMCA of Metro North | $2,500 |
| Cradles to Crayons | $2,000 |
| Bread and Roses Community Kitchen | $1,000 |
| Wright Lucas Foundation | $1,000 |
| Appalachian Muntain Club | $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 (FY20–24, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
Catie's Closet Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $33k · revenue +10%
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +15%- WBWALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC2× · 2022–2023 · $4k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -16%
- YYMCAone grant, 2023 · $3k
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +9%
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Macp's stated mission is to promote job stabilization and growth across the full spectrum of business, and within all geographic regions of the commonwealth through working in partnership with business and government. macp's main priority…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
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.
Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training
To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…
The Massachusetts High Technology Council, Inc. is an organization of CEOs andsenior executives representing technology companies, professional services firms,and research institutions who are dedicated to creating and sustaining…
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…
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitas Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 35 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 Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CITY KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITAS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH WITH DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS LAW REFORM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S LOVE BUS CHARITABLE TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
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 · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 TCO Charitable 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.
- Communitas Inc — 88% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 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.