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Viney Wallach 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.

$551k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
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 FY2021–2024.

Youth Development$201kPhilanthropy$180kEducation$161kScience & Tech$150kCrime & Legal$128kHealth$125kPublic Benefit$105kCommunity Improvement$66kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON CASA INC$70,000
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED$50,000
GENERATION CITIZEN INC$35,000
SILVER LINING MENTORING INC$35,000
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC$35,000
BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE$25,000
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$25,000
NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INCORPORATED$25,000
WOMEN IN THE ENTERPRISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY$20,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$20,000
LEAP FOR EDUCATION INC$20,000
CENTER FOR NONPROFITS AND VOTING INC$20,000
EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC$15,000
BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY$15,000
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC$15,000
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 (FY21–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HORIZONS GREATER BOSTON INC: $5k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $5k → 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METRO NORTH IN: $500 → 10%ENROOT INC: $25k → 8%EAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC: $15k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $15k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $8k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $15k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $10k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $8k → 16%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $5k → 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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$746k · 12 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
20

Total granted

$746k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-4%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • BC
    BOSTON CASA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $123k · revenue +26%
  • LS
    LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $117k · revenue +51%
  • GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • EI
    ENROOT INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +3%
  • FF
    FUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -31%
  • AF
    ALABAMA FORWARDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +87%

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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc

To inspire excitement for learning, create paths to and through college, and promote careers in education.

Education
4
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
5
Massachusetts Alliance for Early College Inc

The massachusetts alliance for early college (ma4ec) is a cross-sector coalition focused on significantly increasing the number of students with access to high-quality early college in massachusetts to promote college and career success…

Education
6
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
7
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
10
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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11
Kids in Tech Inc

Kids in tech, inc. is a statewide organization that excites, educates, and empowers children across massachusetts to use technology, promoting a positive environment and fostering lifelong interest in stem. through our after-school…

Education
12
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lynn Museum and Historical Society Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%6%<5yr14%12%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%8%35–55yr14%20%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%3%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%43%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%20%35–55yr14%8%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/52
the rest of the field
11%
3,838/34,402

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

52 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. 52 of the 53 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
26/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $90,000 · Youth DevelopmentSILVER LINING MENTORING INCGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentGENERATION CITIZEN INCBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPO…THE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTN…SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INCYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC+7 more — $26,000 · Youth Development+7 moreWOMEN IN THE ENTERPRISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — $80,000 · Science & TechWOMEN IN THE E…GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $70,000 · Science & TechGLOUCESTER MAR…BOSTON CASA INC — $122,500 · Civil RightsBOSTON CASA …ALABAMA FORWARD — $5,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $5,000 · Civil RightsSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOSTON INC — $55,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENT…Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $45,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated…CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyCAMBRIDGE C…Boston Foundation Inc — $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · PhilanthropyLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $117,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENC…+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC — $61,000 · Human ServicesSOCIAL INN…ENROOT INC — $25,000 · Human ServicesENROOT INCEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTO…TIDES CENTER — $5,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 · Human Services+1 more — $500 · Human ServicesLEAP for Education Inc — $30,500 · EducationThe George Washington University — $25,000 · EducationBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 · EducationHe Is Me Institute Inc — $5,000 · EducationSomeone Elses Child Inc — $5,000 · EducationLeadership Brainery Inc — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · EducationFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $60,000 · OtherFIDELITY INVEST…INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $30,000 · OtherINNERCITY WEIGH…HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $10,000 · OtherHARLEM LACROSSE…CENTER FOR NONPROFITS AND VOTING INC — $20,000 · OtherCENTER FOR NONP…COMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC — $10,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FARMS…Museum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery — $10,000 · OtherMuseum of Medic…+8 more — $26,850 · Other+8 more
Youth Development$301,000Science & Tech$150,000Civil Rights$132,500Philanthropy$125,000Health$119,500Human Services$111,500Education$86,000Other$166,850

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 budgetBOSTON CASA INC — $122,500 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $117,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSILVER LINING MENTORING INC — $90,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWOMEN IN THE ENTERPRISE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY — $80,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGENERATION CITIZEN INC — $70,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED — $70,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC — $61,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS BOSTON INC — $55,000 over 2y, 6.9% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED — $50,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc — $30,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetENROOT INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE NATIONAL MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe George Washington University — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEAST BOSTON SOCIAL CENTERS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRANDEIS UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Medicine & Biomedical Discovery — $10,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FARMS OUTREACH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFUND FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT — $5,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALABAMA FORWARD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISSIONSAFE A NEW BEGINNING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHe Is Me Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetONEGOAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSomeone Elses Child Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR TEEN EMPOWERMENT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPREPARATORY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINVERSANT INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAPPRENTICE LEARNING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLeadership Brainery Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNN MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN — $500 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…Bushrod H Campbell & …Combined Jewish Phila…United Way Of Massach…Someone Elses Child I…Wellington Management…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…The Cabot Family Char…Rockland Trust Charit…
Boston Foundation IncMA56.3× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Someone Elses Child Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust 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 Viney Wallach 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
  • East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
  • Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
  • Building Audacity — 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Boston Casa Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
  • He Is Me Institute Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
  • Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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