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· Private foundation

Ttee Uw of Charles F Bacon

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$225k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Human Services$1.0MHousing & Shelter$358kCommunity Improvement$145kHealth$105kYouth Development$80kCivil Rights$40kPhilanthropy$35kEducation$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $220k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC$15,000
LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC$15,000
FRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC$10,000
SAMARITANS INC$10,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
LIFE PATH INC$10,000
MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES$10,000
BEACON HILL VILLAGE INC$10,000
MOUNT PLEASANT HOME$10,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDRENS SERVICES$10,000
EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC$10,000
FRESH FILMS$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION$10,000
ROGERSON COMMUNITIES$10,000
METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM$10,000
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 (FY17–25, $798k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LIFE PATH INC: $15k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $20k → 16%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 8%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%LIFE PATH INC: $15k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $20k → 16%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $15k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $15k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $20k → 16%HOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC: $10k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $15k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $20k → 16%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $15k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $15k → 16%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $10k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $15k → 16%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $10k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $10k → 16%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%LIFE PATH INC: $10k → 14%LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC: $10k → 16%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES: $10k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%MYSTIC VALLEY ELDER SERVICES INC: $10k → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $15k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $15k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $15k → 16%SPRINGWELL INC: $15k → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $15k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $15k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $13k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $13k → 16%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $13k → 16%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $15k → 16%ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE: $15k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 16%ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE: $15k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 16%SW BOSTON SENIOR SVS DBA ETHOS: $15k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 16%SOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES: $15k → 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.

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.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 28 repeat orgs$238k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
13

Total granted

$1.6M
$173k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+76%

Still filing today

82%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementReligionOther

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

  • LA
    LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +160%
  • SS
    SOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue +73%
  • RC
    ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $123k · revenue +52%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR
    one grant, 2019 · $25k
  • TB
    TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +14%
  • TH
    THE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +111%

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.

1
Southeastern Massachusetts Home Health Aides Inc

Homecare services and home health aide services.

Human Services
2
Central Boston Elder Services Inc

To provide home care services, referrals and advocacy to the elderly population located in the boston area.

Human Services
3
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
4
Bristol Aging & Wellness Inc

Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…

Human Services
5
Coastline Elderly Services Inc

Enhance the lives of seniors, caregivers and those with similar needs by assisting them to remain independent through a range of quality services.

Human Services
6
Access Care Partners Inc

Westmass eldercare, inc. is an aging services access point and designated area agency on aging that provides services which include in-home support, informational services, nursing home advocacy, legal assistance, meal site transportation…

Human Services
7
Homehealth & Child Care Services Inc

Committed to the healthy development,education,childcare,respectful eldercare, and to provide support & empowerment of all families of southeastern massachusetts, cape cod and the islands

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8
Massachusetts Assisted Living Association Inc

To lead the assisted living industry in its service of seniors through advocacy, education, operational support, and enhanced growth opportunities.

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9
South Shore Elder Services Inc

Provides home care services, referrals, and advocacy to the elderly population of south shore massachusetts.

Food & Nutrition
10
Victory Human Services Inc

Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.

Health
11
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
12
Boston Senior Home Care Inc

Boston senior home care is committed to ensuring that culturally diverse adults and individuals with disabilities, particularly those of limited means, can remain safely in their homes and community with dignity and independence.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 backsteadySocial Change Advocacy Orga…Professional Trade Associat…Early Childhood Education C…Homeless Services & Recover…Senior Residential Care
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 49 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr20%1%10–20yr19%17%20–35yr13%48%35–55yr13%32%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/37
the rest of the field
11%
2,292/21,718

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.

04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LA ALIANZA HISPANA INC — $130,000 · Human ServicesLA ALIANZA HISPANA INCROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC — $122,500 · Human ServicesROGERSON COMMUNITIES INCLIFEPATH INC — $105,000 · Human ServicesLIFEPATH INCSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS — $95,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOSMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INCMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INCBEACON HILL VILLAGE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesBEACON HILL VILLAGE INCHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesTHE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC) — $30,000 · Human Services+4 more — $65,000 · Human Services+4 moreMOUNT PLEASANT HOME INC — $110,000 · OtherMOUNT PLEASANT HOME INCHALE-BARNARD CORPORATION — $95,000 · OtherHALE-BARNARD CORPORATIONFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $67,500 · OtherFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INCWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $50,000 · OtherWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INCFRIENDS OF CHILDREN TRUST FUND — $35,000 · OtherHOMEOWNER OPTIONS — $35,000 · OtherFRIENDS JEWISH COMM HSG ELDERLY — $32,500 · OtherHOMEOWNER OPTIONS FOR — $25,000 · OtherACTION FOR BOSTON COMM — $25,000 · OtherTHE FOOD DRIVE INC — $25,000 · OtherDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 · Other+13 more — $165,000 · Other+13 moreSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementSAMARITANS INC — $55,000 · HealthTHE METROWEST FREE MEDICAL PROGRAM INC — $10,000 · HealthBrockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — $10,000 · HealthADVOCATES INC — $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $10,000 · HealthFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC — $75,000 · ReligionTHE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterAssisted Living Center Inc — $12,500 · Housing & ShelterHebrew Senior Life Inc — $35,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$797,500Other$690,000Community Improvement$125,000Health$95,000Religion$75,000Housing & Shelter$42,500Philanthropy$35,000

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 budgetLA ALIANZA HISPANA INC — $130,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC — $125,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC — $122,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT PLEASANT HOME INC — $110,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEPATH INC — $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHALE-BARNARD CORPORATION — $95,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetSOUTHWEST BOSTON SENIOR SERVICES INC D/B/A ETHOS — $95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMYSTIC VALLEY AGING SERVICES INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDSHIPWORKS INC — $75,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetMINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF 2LIFE COMMUNITIES INC — $67,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBEACON HILL VILLAGE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetSAMARITANS INC — $55,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHOMELESS PREVENTION COUNCIL INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ECUMENICAL SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE INC (ESAC) — $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetDISABILITY POLICY CONSORTIUM INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE FOOD DRIVE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSPRINGWELL INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssisted Living Center Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGROW ASSOCIATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBrockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH FILMS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncRockland Trust Charit…Pierce Katharine C UwBushrod H Campbell & …Liberty Mutual Founda…John W Boynton FundPoint32health Foundat…Boston Evening Clinic…Yawkey Foundation IICummings Foundation G…Massachusetts Bankers…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA37.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Pierce Katharine C Uw · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · John W Boynton Fund · Point32health Foundation Inc · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc · Yawkey Foundation II · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association 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 Ttee Uw of Charles F Bacon 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Grow Associates Inc — 97% of income from government
  • Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Disability Policy Consortium Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
  • Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
  • Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
  • Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
  • La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Cooperative Elder Services Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Hale-Barnard Corporation — 36% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Mount Pleasant Home Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
  • South Shore Community Action Council Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Homeless Prevention Council Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Assisted Living Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Brockton Visiting Nurse Association Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Food Drive Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
7rely on government for over half their income
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 48 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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