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William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
100
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$4.4MYouth Development$3.0MArts & Culture$2.8MPhilanthropy$971kEnvironment$788kCommunity Improvement$731kRecreation & Sports$634kFood & Nutrition$493kOther$0
02FY2024 · 100 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k83 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $265k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Breakthrough Greater Boston$100,000
Philanthropy Massachusetts$90,000
Edvestors$75,000
Cristo Rey Boston High School$40,000
Celebrity Series of Boston$40,000
New Bedford Light$37,500
Community Economic Development Center of Southern Mass$35,000
Science Club for Girls$35,000
Mill City Grows$35,000
Farrington Nature Linc$30,000
More Than Words$30,000
Big Sister Assoc of Greater Boston$30,000
ZUMIX$30,000
Write Boston$30,000
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston$30,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Franklin County Dial-Self Inc: $6k → 14%Jeff's Place Childrens Bereavement Center: $5k → 8%Second Chance Cars: $1k → 8%African Community Education Program: $6k → 11%Southeastern Mass Agricultural Partnership: $3k → 11%House of Possibilities: $10k → 11%House of Possibilities Inc (HOPE): $10k → 11%Community Art Center Inc: $20k → 8%Enroot: $20k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $20k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $20k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $20k → 8%Community Art Center: $15k → 8%Community Art Center: $15k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $15k → 8%Community Art Center Inc: $10k → 8%Immigrants' Assistance Center: $15k → 11%Immigrants' Assistance Center: $15k → 11%Immigrants Assistance Center: $10k → 11%Northstar Learning Center: $10k → 11%Immigrants Assistance Center: $10k → 11%East Boston Community Council: $15k → 16%Strong Women Strong Girls: $10k → 16%Strong Women Strong Girls: $10k → 16%Strong Women Strong Girls: $5k → 16%Social Innovation Forum: $50k → 16%Social Innovation Forum Inc: $50k → 16%Friends of the Children-Boston: $15k → 16%Friends of the Children Boston: $10k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children Inc: $10k → 16%Friends of the Children-Boston: $10k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: $20k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $15k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: $15k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center: $15k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $15k → 16%Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc: $15k → 16%Strong Women Strong Girls: $10k → 16%New England International Donors: $5k → 16%East Boston Community Council Inc: $25k → 16%Social Innovation Forum: $90k → 16%East Boston Ecumenical Community Council: $15k → 16%Social Innovation Forum: $80k → 16%East Boston Ecumenical Community Council: $15k → 16%Social Innovation Forum: $75k → 16%College Bound Dorchester: $45k → 16%College Bound Dorchester: $20k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 147 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
76

Total granted

$14M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+16%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $392k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $762k · revenue +134%
  • BG
    BREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $464k · revenue +28%
  • SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $345k · revenue +179%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $80k
  • GF
    GMA Foundations Philanthropy Massachusetts
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SE
    Southcoast Emergency Response Fund
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
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.

04Its field

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.

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 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
3
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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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
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
6
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

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…

Education
7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
8
Dean College

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,…

Education
9
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce

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.

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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
Cambridge Chamber of Commerce

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.

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12
Wheaton College

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

169 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. 169 of the 255 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
168/169
Grantees still filing
129/169
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL INC: $275,000 · OtherBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $220,000 · OtherDOC WAYNE INC: $220,000 · Other+100 more: $5,005,500 · Other+100 moreBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $464,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH GREATER B…CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 · EducationCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUND…WriteBoston Inc: $170,000 · EducationWriteBoston IncLASELL UNIVERSITY: $166,000 · EducationLASELL UNIVERSITYEDVESTORS INC: $165,000 · EducationEDVESTORS INCREGIS COLLEGE: $160,000 · EducationREGIS COLLEGEDREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC: $137,500 · EducationUASPIRE INC: $135,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $125,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $125,000 · EducationTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $120,000 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $117,500 · Education826 BOSTON INC: $115,000 · Education+17 more: $562,500 · Education+17 moreTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $217,500 · Arts & CultureTHE INSTITUTE OF …Old Dartmouth Historical Society: $215,000 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmouth His…ZUMIX INC: $215,000 · Arts & CultureZUMIX INCARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $170,000 · Arts & CultureARTISTS FOR HUMAN…BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON ARTS ACADE…BOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON CITY SINGE…OLD STURBRIDGE INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureOLD STURBRIDGE IN…THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $135,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUS…COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC C…CANTATA SINGERS INC: $103,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON BALLET INC: $100,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $91,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $464,000 · Arts & Culture+15 moreBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $225,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRL…TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $197,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRINITY BOS…SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $180,000 · Youth DevelopmentSCIENCE CLU…SOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $175,000 · Youth DevelopmentSOCIEDAD LA…BOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $112,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOSTON DEBA…America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores: $100,500 · Youth DevelopmentAmerica Sco…YOUNG MAN WITH A PLAN INC: $70,000 · Youth Development+8 more: $246,000 · Youth Development+8 moreSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $345,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $135,000 · Human ServicesBOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $95,000 · Human ServicesEAST BOSTON COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesUNCORNERED INC: $65,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANTS' ASSISTANCE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INC OF GREATER PITTSBURGH: $35,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - BOSTON INC: $35,000 · Human Services+3 more: $50,000 · Human ServicesPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $762,100 · PhilanthropySOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $20,000 · PhilanthropyMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $162,500 · EnvironmentCITYSPROUTS INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $130,000 · EnvironmentMattapoisett Land Trust Inc: $85,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $79,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $67,000 · EnvironmentAppalachian Mountain Club: $62,500 · EnvironmentWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC: $47,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $30,000 · Environment
Other$5,720,500Education$2,932,500Arts & Culture$2,275,500Youth Development$1,515,500Human Services$880,000Philanthropy$877,100Environment$793,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $762,100 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH GREATER BOSTON INC: $464,000 over 8y, 3.3% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $345,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $245,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $225,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $220,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetDOC WAYNE INC: $220,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $217,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $215,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetZUMIX INC: $215,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $197,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $190,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC: $180,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $180,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIEDAD LATINA INC: $175,000 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $175,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC: $170,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetWriteBoston Inc: $170,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $166,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEDVESTORS INC: $165,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC: $162,500 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetEVKIDS INC: $160,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $160,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $160,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetREGIS COLLEGE: $160,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON CITY SINGERS INC: $140,000 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $140,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $140,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC: $137,500 over 8y, 18% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $135,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART CENTER INC: $135,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetCITYSPROUTS INC: $130,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $130,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $125,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC: $125,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $120,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMILL CITY GROWS INC: $120,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $117,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budget826 BOSTON INC: $115,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetBOSTON DEBATE LEAGUE INCORPORATED: $112,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CENTER OF SOUTHEASTERN MASS: $111,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budget
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 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 Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds ZUMIX INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds SOCIEDAD LATINA INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTISTS FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WriteBoston Inc ↗
  • Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds EDVESTORS INC ↗
  • Who funds MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EVKIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
  • Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON CITY SINGERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds DREAM OUT LOUD CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY ART CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CITYSPROUTS INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗

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.

Liberty Mutual Founda…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …Rockland Trust Charit…Wellington Management…Barr FoundationRiley Mabel Louise Tr…Amelia Peabody Founda…Yawkey Foundation II
Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA112.1× affinity59 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 310%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
31get no government money at all
29report 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 255 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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