· Private foundation
Yale Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAPE COD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLY HOSPITAL CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR METRO WEST | $35,000 |
| JETT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $15,000 |
| MSPCC | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $10,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| FATHER BILLS AND MAINSTAY INC | $10,000 |
| LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| WOMENS LUNCH PLACE | $10,000 |
| VARIOUS 1000 PER RECIPIENT | $9,610 |
| VETERANS LEGAL SERVICE | $9,000 |
| A TASK FORCE | $5,000 |
| MOTHERS MILK BANK | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 62% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
60 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
PINE STREET INN INC9× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +123%- VLVETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +179%
- JFJETT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +359%
Funded once
Dignity Matters Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +51%- SSSOUTH SHORE HEALTH CENTERone grant, 2021 · $20k
- DBDORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -29%
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.
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.
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
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,…
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Harvard street neighborhood health center serves as the primary health resource to our community, through the delivery of comprehensive patient-centered medical care.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
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,…
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
How this is measured
69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 69 of the 127 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JETT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds RB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN TASK FORCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Fenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School ↗
- Who funds HALEY CREMER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STOP HANDGUN VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds America Scores New England DBA Boston Scores ↗
- Who funds SMILE MASS INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dignity Matters Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Bullpen Project Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUIS D BROWN PEACE INSTITUTE CORP ↗
- Who funds DORCHESTER BAY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Yale Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yale Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Communities United Inc: 89% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc: 66% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc: 49% of income from government
- Metrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 33% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp: 32% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: 32% of income from government
- Asian Task Force Against Domestic Violence Inc: 32% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores: 30% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc: 29% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- United Way of Tri County Inc: 18% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc: 16% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc: 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc: 7% of income from government
- The Nature Connection Inc: 5% of income from government
- Boston Higashi School Inc: 5% of income from government
- South Shore Hospital Inc: 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc: 4% of income from government
- Brookline Teen Center: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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