· Private foundation
Abbot & Dorothy H Stevens Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of ABBOT & DOROTHY H STEVENS FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 61 grants below total $1,236,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,504,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,100 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k23 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $512k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $645k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family Services of the Merrimack Valley | $92,500 |
| Lawrence General Hospital | $75,000 |
| Boston Educational Devel Foundation | $75,000 |
| ECCF Lawrence Public Schools Receivership | $70,000 |
| Youth Development Organization | $70,000 |
| Squashbusters | $62,500 |
| Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School | $50,000 |
| ECCF Summer in Greater Lawrence | $50,000 |
| Greater Lawrence Community Boating | $50,000 |
| Lawrence Community Works | $50,000 |
| Lawrence History Center | $40,000 |
| Institute for Non-Profit Practice | $35,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Greater Boston | $35,000 |
| Merrimack River Watershed Council | $30,000 |
| Elevated Thought Foundation | $30,000 |
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 +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
50 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC3× · 2021–2023 · $206k · revenue +59%
Lawrence General Hospital3× · 2021–2023 · $175k · revenue +5%
ELEVATED THOUGHT INC3× · 2021–2023 · $135k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- ELECCF Lawrence Public Schls Receivershipone grant, 2021 · $70k
- NPNew Profiling/Playworks Educationone grant, 2021 · $65k
BOSTON SCHOOLS FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -100%
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.
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…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Childrens Museum and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. 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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 90 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
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 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds ELEVATED THOUGHT INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR NONPROFIT PRACTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SQUASHBUSTERS INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SCHOOLS FUND ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HURRICANE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ESPRESSO INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Straight Ahead Ministries INC ↗
- Who funds RUTHS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY 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 · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Nathaniel & Elizabeth P Stevens Foundation · Josephine G Russell Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · The Saab Family 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.
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