· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catie's Closet | $10,000 |
| Merrimack Valley Food Bank | $5,000 |
| MSCPA Educational Foundation | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +28% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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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.
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To provide specialized advocacy and representation for children on issues affecting their health, education and welfare including providing resources and training
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 35 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The TCO Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The TCO Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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