The Next Step Fund Inc

Your funders

35 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 23 are locally focused, 10 have national reach, and 2 are no longer active.

• Cummings Foundation Grants Inc7 years$240,000
• Newmans Own Foundation6 years$235,000
• Hebson Family Foundation6 years$225,000
• Brian J Mclaughlin Private Foundation8 years$180,000
• The Central National-Gottesman Foundation6 years$98,640

Showing 5 of 35. See all 48 funders

13 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.

Your funding peers

Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 5,741 funding connections →

27 Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations funding peers share at least three of your funders.

• Housing Families IncMA6 shared funders
• Charles River Center IncMA5 shared funders
• Little Brothers Friends of the Elderly - Boston IncMA5 shared funders
• Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless IncMA5 shared funders
• Partners for Youth With DisabilitiesMA5 shared funders
• Second Chances IncMA5 shared funders
• Asian American Civic Association IncMA4 shared funders
• Immigrant Learning Center IncMA4 shared funders

See all 27 Centers to Support the Independence of Specific Populations peers →

Potential new funders

Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.

In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.