· Private foundation
Thee Mustard Seed 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k5 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $869k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN IMPACT | $493,435 |
| JACO BOOYENS MINISTRIES | $403,462 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $373,000 |
| BY THE HAND CLUB FOR KIDS | $200,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $185,000 |
| ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC | $125,000 |
| TEREBINTH REFUGE | $100,000 |
| THE COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARISMATIC RENEWAL (GHANA) | $95,369 |
| ST MARY AND ST SCHOLASTICA PRIORY | $64,050 |
| CHILL FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| ST ANDRE BESSETTE PARISH | $40,000 |
| THE COUNTRY FOOD TRUST | $26,110 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $14,000 |
| HEART OF THE FATHER MINISTRIES | $13,695 |
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 US giving — 83% of grant dollars ($13M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 17% that went abroad ($2.5M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 17% of all-years giving ($2.5M)
3 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $568k 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
- RBRon Burton Training Village Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +447%
COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +209%- BTBy The Hand Club For Kids7× · 2018–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +39%
Funded once
- HTHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $300k
- DODaughters of Mary Mother of Healing Lovegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +83%
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON - CARDINAL'S INSPIRING HOPE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2023 · $200k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is By the Hand Club for Kids and the most unlike its peers is Urban Impact. 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 23 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 4% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 56 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 Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds COREY C GRIFFIN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds By The Hand Club For Kids ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR SURVIVOR CARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARETOGETHER ORG ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Daughters of Mary Mother of Healing Love ↗
- Who funds Heart of the Father Ministries ↗
- Who funds Urban Impact ↗
- Who funds BUILD THE FAITH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TEREBINTH REFUGE ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Kids Alive International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WELLHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DO IT FOR THE LOVE ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Thee Mustard Seed 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.
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 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.