· Private foundation
William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Breakthrough Greater Boston | $100,000 |
| Philanthropy Massachusetts | $90,000 |
| Edvestors | $75,000 |
| Celebrity Series of Boston | $40,000 |
| Cristo Rey Boston High School | $40,000 |
| New Bedford Light | $37,500 |
| Mill City Grows | $35,000 |
| Science Club for Girls | $35,000 |
| Community Economic Development Center of Southern Mass | $35,000 |
| The Food Project | $30,000 |
| Doc Wayne Youth Services Inc | $30,000 |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation | $30,000 |
| West End House | $30,000 |
| Artists for Humanity | $30,000 |
| Young Mens Christian Assoc Southcoast | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $916k) 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.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
147 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 77 since wound down; 30 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k 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
PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $762k · revenue +134%- BGBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC8× · 2017–2024 · $464k · revenue +37%
SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC5× · 2017–2023 · $345k · revenue +179%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $80k
- SESouthcoast Emergency Response Fundone grant, 2020 · $50k
- GFGMA Foundations Philanthropy Massachusettsone grant, 2022 · $50k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
To improve the business, social and civic environment of the greater boston area and to become the leading representative in the boston area in the consideration of local, state and national issues.
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.…
The mission of the cambridge chamber of commerce is to make cambridge a better place in which to live, to work, to do business, to visit and to study.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Gallery X 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.
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 32 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% 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.
169 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. 169 of the 255 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds DOC WAYNE INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC ↗
- Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WriteBoston Inc ↗
- Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
- Who funds EVKIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CITY SINGERS INC ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds CITYSPROUTS INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC ↗
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: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Wellington Management Foundation · Barr Foundation · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Yawkey Foundation II
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 William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- 18 Degrees Inc — 60% of income from government
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- Missionsafe a New Beginning Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley — 30% of income from government
- College for Social Innovation Inc — 30% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 21% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Level Ground Mixed Martial Arts Inc — 19% of income from government
- Melrose Alliance Against Violence Inc — 19% of income from government
- Mystic River Watershed Association Inc — 18% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Doc Wayne Inc — 15% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cambridge School Volunteers Inc — 14% of income from government
- Community Art Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Mattapoisett Land Trust Inc — 13% of income from government
- Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Franklin County Dialself Inc — 11% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boston Music Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Citysprouts Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Boston City Singers Inc — 5% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Gallery X Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Dream Out Loud Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- People Acting in Community Endeavors Inc — 3% of income from government
- Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
- Young Man With a Plan Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Cantata Singers Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% of income from government
- New Bedford Economic Development Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Breakthrough Greater Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
- Speak for the Trees Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Ballet Theatre of Boston Inc D/B/a Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Edvestors Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 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.
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