The East Boston Foundation
East Boston, MA · EIN 31-1601979. Reported 78 grants totalling $2,024,490 to 34 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The East Boston Foundation, the IRS classifies it as a public foundation -- a grantmaker that raises its money from many sources rather than from one donor (NTEE T30Z).
- How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 29% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 65% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,500. Half of what it reported fell between $11,200 and $25,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $389,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Martin Pino Center Community Council | Boston, MA | $593,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Eastie Farm Inc | Boston, MA | $184,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Eb Apac (abcd Summerworks) | East Boston, MA | $175,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Salesian Boys & Girls Club Inc | East Boston, MA | $125,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Zumix Inc | East Boston, MA | $104,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Piers Park Sailing Center Inc | East Boston, MA | $75,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Boston Social Centers Inc | East Boston, MA | $70,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Paris Street Community Council Inc | East Boston, MA | $64,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood of Affordable Housing Inc | East Boston, MA | $58,600 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc | Jamaica Plain, MA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Fund for Parks and Recreation in Boston | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Boston Community Council Inc | Boston, MA | $45,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Martin Pino Community Center Council Inc | East Boston, MA | $39,700 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | East Boston, MA | $37,920 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc | Boston, MA | $37,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The East Boston Athletic Board Inc | East Boston, MA | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Mens Christian Association of Greater Boston Inc | Boston, MA | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Belle Isle Marsh Inc | East Boston, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Italia Unita of Massachusetts Inc | East Boston, MA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Mystic River Watershed Association Inc | Arlington, MA | $21,300 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Eb Girls Softball | East Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Steppingstone Foundation Inc | Boston, MA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Veronica Robles Cultural Center | Saugus, MA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| 2ND Act Org Inc | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of the Children-Boston Inc | Roxbury, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Pop Warner Little Scholars Inc | Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Speak for the Trees Inc | Dorchester, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United States Lightship Museum Inc | East Boston, MA | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| America Scores New England | East Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Horizons for Homeless Children Inc | Roxbury, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Jcam Charitable Foundation Inc | Needham, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| North Suffolk Community Services Inc | Chelsea, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| E Inc | Charlestown, MA | $8,770 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The@harborkeepers | East Boston, MA | $7,200 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
20 of 34 (59%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Eastie Farm
COMMUNITY CENTER TO SUPPORT TEEN PROGRAMS AND YOUTH SERVICES PROGRAMING. - Salesian Boys and Girls Club
HELPS THE LOCAL COMMUNITY WITH CHILD CARE AND VARIOUS HEALTH AND WELLNESS - Harborside Council - All Programs
FOR YOUTH SUMMER PROGRAMS, GIRL'S TEEN CENTER AND TO SUPPORT EASTIE PRIDE DAY.FOR YOUTH SUMMER PROGRAMS, GIRL'S TEEN CENTER AND TO SUPPORT EASTIE PRIDE DAY - Zumix
TEACHES CHILDREN MUSIC AND HOLDS MUSICAL EVENTS - Friends of Belle Isle Marsh
TO ENHANCE THE LIVES OF EAST BOSTON RESIDENTS. - Piers Park Sailing Center
DEDICATED TO PROVIDING ACCESSIBLE RECREATIONAL, EDUCATIONAL, AND PERSONAL GROWTH OPPORTUNITIES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 25 of 34 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 16 | $692,000 | $12,500 |
| 2022 | 16 | $329,120 | $12,500 |
| 2023 | 23 | $408,100 | $12,500 |
| 2024 | 23 | $595,270 | $12,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $12,500 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Massachusetts.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The East Boston Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 245 Sumner Street 110, East Boston, MA, 02128.
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