How much did Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k40 grants · $233k
$10k–50k9 grants · $165k
$50k–250k1 grant · $60k

$7,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

Lowell General Hospital$60,000
Lowell Community Health Center$35,000
Merrimack Reperatory Theatre$25,000
D'Youville Senior Care$25,000
Immaculate Conception$23,000
Project Learn$15,000
Lowell Catholic High School$12,000
Catie's Closet$10,000
Girls Inc$10,000
First United Baptist Church$10,000
Greater Lowell Community Foundation$9,000
St Vincent de Paul Society$9,000
Acre Family Child Care$8,000
BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL$8,000
Riverbend$8,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$958k · 47 repeat orgs$108k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +83% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.

47 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$958k

$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+83%

-5%

Still filing today

51%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

Lowell General Hospital
3× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +22%
LC
Lowell Community Health Center
3× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +43%
DS
DYOUVILLE SENIOR CARE
3× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +26%

Funded once

CH
Circle Home
3× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue -27%
GI
GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOWELLgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +70%
IC
IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL
one grant, 2017 · $6k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Lowell Area Housing Inc

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Lowell Makes Inc

Lowell makes is a collection of open workshops and laboratories where members and students can collaborate to learn, share, and hone crafts of all kinds. the focus is on providing a space for education, entrepreneurship, and engagement…

Arts & Culture

Greater Lowell Workforce Dev Board Inc

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Greater Lowell Family Ymca

The greater lowell family ymca's mission is to strengthen our community by supporting youth development, healthy living and social responsibility for all through programs influenced by our core values of caring, honesty, respect and…

Human Services

Greater Lowell Health Alliance

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region.

Health

Lowell Farm and Wildlife Center

Animals

Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter

Center for Living & Working Inc

To provide a broad range of independent living services to people with disabilities.

Human Services

Greater Lawrence Family Health Center

Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…

Health

East End House Inc

Provide childcare and community action programs to the local population.

Human Services

Massachusetts League of Community Health

To promote population health equity for all through leadership and programs supporting community health centers and members in achieving their goals of accessible, quality, comprehensive, and community responsive health care.

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The Lowell School

To create an inclusive community of life-long learners in which each individual is valued and respected. our charge, then, is to strengthen minds, ensure equity, and honor individuality.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wayside Youth and Family Support. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2/35

the rest of the field

933/10,527

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.

04the grantee network

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/32

Grantees still filing

27/32

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$554,500Health$284,000Human Services$63,000Education$56,000Housing & Shelter$49,000Youth Development$36,000Philanthropy$23,000

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.

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.

Greater Lowell Community FoundationMA50.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Greater Lowell Community Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue · Demoulas Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Battles Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · The Lowell General Hospital

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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: African Community Center of Lowell.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842740360 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on African Community Center of Lowell, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 7% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund?

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Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

32 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund?

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