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Aldrich Family Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$635k
Granted FY2024still arriving
47
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its granteesRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$578kEducation$178kHealth$172kFood & Nutrition$77kEnvironment$71kPhilanthropy$56kAnimals$56kYouth Development$54kOther$0
02FY2024 · 47 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 47 grants below total $549,785, the rows itemized in this filing. The $635,285 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,500 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k32 grants · $88k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $177k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $285k
$2,500
Median grant
11
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Project Kompass$75,000
Project Kompass$70,000
Project Kompass$70,000
Project Kompass$70,000
Providence College$30,000
Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc.$25,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital$25,000
Beth Israel Lahey Health$20,000
New England Aquarium Corporation$15,000
The Food Project$12,000
Greater Boston Food Bank$10,000
Appalachian Mountain Club$10,000
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International$10,000
Center for Biological Diversity$10,000
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital$10,000
02Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 26 repeat orgs$420k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

$1.2M
$339k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+13%

Still filing today

85%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23’24
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthEnvironmentEducationCivil RightsOther
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

  • PK
    PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED
    3× · 2021–2024 · $685k · revenue +260% · 60% of their budget
  • PROVIDENCE COLLEGE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $155k · revenue +29%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $40k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • TB
    TRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -30%
  • SJ
    St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SJ
    St Jude's Children's Research Hospital
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
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.

03Its 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.

1
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
2
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
3
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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4
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…

—
5
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
6
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
7
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
8
Conservation Law Foundation Inc

Conservation law foundation, inc. (clf) protects new england's environment for the benefit of all people and future generations. we use the law, science, and markets to create solutions that preserve and restore our natural resources,…

Environment
9
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc

The organization's mission is to advocate for policy that meets the scale and urgency of our environmental challenges. as a massachusetts-based organization that engages in advocacy across a full spectrum of climate, environmental, and…

Environment
10
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
11
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc

The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.

Environment
12
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trinity Boston Connects Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 72 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED: $685,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED+4 more: $18,000 · Housing & ShelterSt. Jude Children's Research Hospital: $50,000 · OtherSt. Jude Children's Research Ho…St Jude's Children's Research Hospital: $30,000 · OtherSt Jude's Children's Research H…GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INCDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $22,000 · OtherLahey Hospital & Medical Center: $20,000 · OtherThe Food Project Inc: $38,000 · OtherThe Food Project IncAppalachian Mountain Club: $20,000 · OtherSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $15,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $17,500 · OtherNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $15,000 · Other+39 more: $196,350 · Other+39 morePROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $155,000 · EducationPROVIDENCE …STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SIL…+2 more: $4,000 · EducationTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $100,000 · Youth Development+2 more: $1,560 · Youth DevelopmentBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $40,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 · HealthRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $5,000 · Health+1 more: $1,750 · HealthGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $17,500 · Civil RightsCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $5,000 · Civil RightsREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Housing & Shelter$703,000Other$448,850Education$169,000Youth Development$101,560Health$96,750Philanthropy$56,000Civil Rights$47,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPROJECT KOMPASS INCORPORATED: $685,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $155,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY BOSTON CONNECTS INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $38,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc: $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $12,200 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetClean River Project Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetBEYOND BOND AND LEGAL DEFENSE: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTOURO SYNAGOGUE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMcLean Fund: $6,600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TABLE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT ASSISTANCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN): $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNOR'S KINDNESS PROJECT INC: $2,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRANCHO RELAXO INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANDERSON HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAIL NEWPORT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOWELL YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROGRAM INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY BAIL FUND INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOREAU SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER GROUP: $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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…Boston Foundation IncGreater Lowell Commun…Theodore Edson Parker…Salem Five Charitable…American Tower Corpor…Combined Jewish Phila…Trustees of the Ayer …The Saab Family Found…Arbella Insurance Fou…Amica Companies Found…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA28.8× affinity13 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) · Boston Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Trustees of the Ayer Home · The Saab Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Amica Companies 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.
04Through Plinth

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How do I get to Aldrich Family Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Aldrich Family Charitable Foundation 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 72 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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