· Private foundation
Artemas W Stearns Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k25 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $20,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $20,000 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM | $18,000 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LAWRENCE | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $13,000 |
| FOOD FOR THE WORLD INC | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGE EASTERN ORTHODOX CHURCH | $10,000 |
| BELLESINI OSA ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| MARY IMMACULATE HEALTHCARE SERVICES | $7,500 |
| GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER | $7,500 |
| BEYOND SOCCER | $5,000 |
| LAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS | $5,000 |
| LAWRENCE CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
58 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
LAZARUS HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +14%
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC8× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +996%
Groundwork Lawrence Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TMTUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +137%
ACT LAWRENCE INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +113%
TOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +55%
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.
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.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
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…
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Lawrence academy recognizes you for who you are, inspires you to take responsibility for who you want to become, supports you as you learn, and empowers you to take action for the greater good.
LPC's mission is to help children become good friends, proficient problem solvers, creative risk takers, and self-governing, accepting classmates. We want them to be as self-sufficient and independent as they can be based on their age and…
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
Daycare services
To cultivate an intimate, welcoming community where children develop respectful relationships and inquisitive minds, build confidence in their individual gifts, and are engaged, prepared and inspired to learn.
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…
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 67 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY BOATING PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds Communities Together Inc ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INROADS INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEALS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD AND ROSES HERITAGE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Si Se Puede Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Josephine G Russell Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · The Saab Family Foundation · Charles G Pringle Foundation · Demoulas Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Artemas W Stearns Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Artemas W Stearns Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc: 45% of income from government
- Act Lawrence Inc: 44% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital: 41% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: 40% of income from government
- Partners in Child Development Inc: 31% of income from government
- Communities Together Inc: 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc: 15% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
- Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc: 11% of income from government
- Lawrence Communityworks Inc: 9% of income from government
- Beyond Soccer Inc: 7% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc: 3% of income from government
- Regis College: 2% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives: 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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