· Private foundation
Yawkey Foundation II
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k92 grants · $2.3M
- $50k–250k56 grants · $4.8M
- $250k+13 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC | $2,500,000 |
| PINE STREET INN INC | $2,000,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE | $1,200,000 |
| THE BASEBALL INC | $1,000,000 |
| FATHER BILLS & MAINSPRING INC | $1,000,000 |
| INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC | $750,000 |
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC | $750,000 |
| NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC | $750,000 |
| BOSTON FOUNDATION INC | $521,056 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC | $500,000 |
| BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $500,000 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE INC | $260,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION | $250,000 |
| PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC | $200,000 |
| XAVERIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $13.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 93% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Yawkey Foundation II’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +44% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
201 repeat relationships — 133 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 25 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $945k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +50%
PINE STREET INN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +36%- GMGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL2× · 2020–2021 · $5.5M · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IAINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUMone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -62%
- BMBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION SPONSORED PROGRAMSone grant, 2023 · $750k
- SCSOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCESone grant, 2020 · $707k
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
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…
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 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,…
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.
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,…
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aiken Horse Park Foundation. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. 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 2% 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.
300 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. 300 of the 345 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Franciscan Hospital for Children ↗
- Who funds DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC ↗
- Who funds My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds Brockton Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
- Who funds PHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds BMA TENPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LA COLABORATIVA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation
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 Yawkey Foundation II 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.
- Grow Associates Inc — 97% of income from government
- Old North Illuminated Inc — 94% of income from government
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- Harborcov Inc — 76% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Project Right — 71% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- The Mass Mentoring Partnership Inc — 63% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Dove Inc — 60% of income from government
- Blue Hill Observatory Science Center Inc — 59% of income from government
- Casa Esperanza Inc — 59% of income from government
- Family and Community Resources Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Hyde Square Task Force Inc — 52% of income from government
- East Boston Social Centers Inc — 50% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Boston Home Inc — 45% of income from government
- Mujeres Unidas Avanzando Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mothers for Justice and Equality Inc — 43% of income from government
- La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
- Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Latham Centers Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Judge Baker Children's Center — 29% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Fathers Uplift Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- All Dorchester Sports & Leadership Inc — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Project Hope Boston Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sociedad Latina Inc — 15% of income from government
- Nashoba Learning Group Inc — 14% of income from government
- Brockton Hospital Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lynn Shelter Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Boston Community Pediatrics Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Brockton Neighborhood Health Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Boston Landmarks Orchestra Inc — 9% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Arts & Business Council of Greater Boston Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Debate League Incorporated — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bma Tenpoint Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Rogerson Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Benjamin Franklin Cummings Institute of Technology — 5% of income from government
- Margarita Muniz Academy Foundation Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Sports Museum of New England Inc — 5% of income from government
- Zumix Inc — 5% of income from government
- Friends of the Children - Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Discovery Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Theatrezone Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Artists for Humanity Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Fall River Massachusetts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc — 2% of income from government
- Inquilinos Boricuas En Accion Inc — 2% of income from government
- Amazing Grace of Cape Cod Inc — 1% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Childrens Museum — 1% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy Greenway Conservancy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston 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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