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Yawkey Foundation II at a glance

· Private foundation

Yawkey Foundation II

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19M
Granted FY2024still arriving
166
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$25MHealth$19MHousing & Shelter$15MYouth Development$8.6MHuman Services$8.5MPhilanthropy$7.2MArts & Culture$5.4MRecreation & Sports$4.6MOther$0
02FY2024 · 166 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k92 grants · $2.3M
  • $50k–250k56 grants · $4.8M
  • $250k+13 grants · $12M
$35,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$467M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
NATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC$750,000
INQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC$750,000
LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS 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
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WESTMINSTER-CANTERBURY FOUNDATION: $50k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $150k → 16%HOPEWELL: $85k → 7%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $555k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $250k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $250k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $250k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $100k → 11%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $50k → 10%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $100k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $75k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $60k → 11%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $50k → 11%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC: $50k → 7%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $75k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $50k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $50k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $2.0M → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $2.0M → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $1.5M → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $500k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $500k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $200k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $150k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $150k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $150k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $100k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $75k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $200k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $100k → 16%LA COLABORATIVA: $100k → 16%HARBORCOV INC: $75k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $400k → 16%SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $75k → 16%PROJECT HOPE BOSTON INC: $65k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
IL
NY
MA
OR
CT
RI
CO
VA
SC
DC
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Yawkey Foundation II’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 86%.

Yawkey Foundation IIlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
$86M · 201 repeat orgs$8.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

201
116

Total granted

$86M
$7.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+23%

Still filing today

92%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $945k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & 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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +50%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $6.7M · revenue +36%
  • GM
    GEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5.5M · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • IA
    INTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -62%
  • BM
    BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION SPONSORED PROGRAMS
    one grant, 2023 · $750k
  • SC
    SOUTH CAROLINA DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES
    one grant, 2020 · $707k
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.

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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 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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3
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
4
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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5
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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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
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

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,…

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9
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
10
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
11
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

301 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. 301 of the 345 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)
59
Early backer (in before they grew)
297/301
Grantees still filing
232/301
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $17,775,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLE…+14 more: $2,857,000 · Education+14 moreGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5,500,000 · HealthGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL …BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $2,300,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTE…Franciscan Hospital for Children: $2,050,000 · HealthFranciscan Hospital …DIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,815,000 · HealthDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEA…Brockton Hospital Inc: $1,210,000 · HealthBrockton Hospital In…BRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $1,168,000 · HealthBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONES…Rhode Island Hospital: $800,000 · Health+11 more: $1,759,000 · Health+11 moreINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $1,665,000 · OtherINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION I…LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF LAWRENCE MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,250,000 · OtherCATHOLIC MEMORIAL SCHOOL: $1,175,000 · OtherCLERGY HEALTH AND RETIREMENT TRUST: $1,050,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $915,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $910,000 · OtherFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $3,150,000 · OtherFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INCTHE BASEBALL INC: $1,260,000 · Other+88 more: $15,368,178 · Other+88 morePINE STREET INN INC: $6,700,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN…My Brothers Keeper Inc: $1,635,000 · Human ServicesMy Brothers Kee…HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $865,000 · Human ServicesHOUSE OF POSSIB…BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $625,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $475,000 · Human Services+25 more: $3,010,000 · Human Services+25 moreBoston Foundation Inc: $6,138,534 · PhilanthropyPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $781,150 · Philanthropy+5 more: $618,500 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $625,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $400,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $300,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more: $1,433,000 · Arts & CultureCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $2,650,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $575,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $475,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $375,000 · Youth DevelopmentROCA INC: $300,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF METROWEST INC: $175,000 · Youth Development+7 more: $615,000 · Youth Development
Education$20,632,000Health$17,602,000Other$26,743,178Human Services$13,310,000Philanthropy$7,538,184Arts & Culture$5,258,000Youth Development$5,165,000

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%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $17,775,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $6,700,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $6,138,534 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetGEORGETOWN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL: $5,500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $3,150,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $2,650,000 over 3y, 6.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $2,300,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFranciscan Hospital for Children: $2,050,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetDIMOCK COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $1,815,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetINQUILINOS BORICUAS EN ACCION INC: $1,665,000 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetMy Brothers Keeper Inc: $1,635,000 over 5y, 6.5% of budgetNATIONAL BASEBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM INC: $1,500,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetTHE BASEBALL INC: $1,260,000 over 4y, 34% of budgetBrockton Hospital Inc: $1,210,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC: $1,168,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM: $1,000,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $915,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC: $910,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC: $865,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $800,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPHILANTHROPY MASSACHUSETTS INC: $781,150 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetTHE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $625,000 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $625,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $585,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetUTEC Inc: $575,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBMA TENPOINT INC: $555,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $525,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $510,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC: $475,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $475,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $450,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH ENRICHMENT SERVICES INC: $445,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetLA COLABORATIVA INC: $425,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetTHE MASS MENTORING PARTNERSHIP INC: $415,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $400,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC: $375,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: $365,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE BOSTON HOME INC: $360,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC: $360,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILYAID BOSTON INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $350,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCLEMSON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $332,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMORE THAN WORDS INC: $310,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetSPOONFULS: $300,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE: $300,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetROCA INC: $300,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Liberty Mutual Founda…Rockland Trust Charit…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way Of Massach…Riley Mabel Louise Tr…Highland Street Conne…Bushrod H Campbell & …The New England Patri…Amelia Peabody Charit…Rockland Trust - Blue…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA149.8× affinity150 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Yawkey Foundation II funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Yawkey Foundation II. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 350%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
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35get no government money at all
33report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
17rely 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 Yawkey Foundation II 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 345 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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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home