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Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund at a glance

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Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$458k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$277kHuman Services$223kEducation$121kYouth Development$110kReligion$104kArts & Culture$96kHousing & Shelter$44kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k40 grants · $233k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $165k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$7,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
First United Baptist Church$10,000
Girls Inc$10,000
Greater Lowell Community Foundation$9,000
St Vincent de Paul Society$9,000
United Teen Equality Center$8,000
BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL$8,000
Acre Family Child Care$8,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.

area typical 8%Mission of Deeds: $5k → 8%Mission of Deeds: $4k → 8%Catie's Closet: $10k → 8%Catie's Closet: $8k → 8%CATIES CLOSET: $6k → 8%Acre Family Child Care: $8k → 8%Greater Lowell YMCA: $7k → 8%Acre Family Child Care: $7k → 8%Wayside Youth & Family Support Network: $6k → 8%Greater Lowell YMCA: $6k → 8%ACRE FAMILY DAY CARE: $5k → 8%GREATER LOWELL YMCA: $4k → 8%Wayside Youth & Family Support Network: $4k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$947k · 46 repeat orgs$96k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 45 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

46
20

Total granted

$947k
$75k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+26%

Still filing today

54%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’17’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterEducationOther
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

  • THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL
    3× · 2017–2024 · $130k · revenue +43%
  • LC
    LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $68k · revenue +89%
  • DS
    D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • CH
    CIRCLE HOME INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue -99%
  • GI
    GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +70%
  • IC
    IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
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.

04Its 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
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
2
Lowell Telecommunications Corporation

Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…

Arts & Culture
3
Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc

To sustain a strategic alliance of community organizations that improves the overall health and wellness of those living in the greater lowell region. by raising awareness and providing resources for our communities, schools, civic and…

Health
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Lowell Area Housing Inc Dba Schneider Manor
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6
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
7
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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8
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
9
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

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…

Crime & Legal
10
Tufts Medicine Inc

Our mission, vision and values are our guiding light. together, we bring them to life with our care, our actions, our learning and our commitment to excellence.at tufts medicine, we know the power of community. it's that feeling of being…

Health
11
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
12
Loomis Communities Inc

The mission of the loomis communities is to open the door of positive aging of older adults by providing a continuum of high quality services which promotes independence and meets the changing needs of people throughout the aging process.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Lowell House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Immaculate Conception: $43,000 · OtherImmaculate ConceptionLOWELL CATHOLIC: $34,000 · OtherLOWELL CATHOLICFIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH: $23,000 · OtherSt Vincent de Paul Society: $23,000 · OtherGirls Inc: $19,000 · OtherSt Anne's Episcopal Church: $17,000 · OtherSalvation Army of Lowell: $17,000 · OtherMiddlesex Community College: $17,000 · OtherGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $23,000 · OtherMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 · OtherLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $17,000 · Other+33 more: $217,500 · Other+33 moreTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $130,000 · HealthTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITALLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $68,000 · HealthLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER…D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INC: $53,000 · HealthD'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INCLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $19,000 · HealthLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLI…LOWELL HOUSE INC: $12,000 · Health+1 more: $2,000 · HealthCatie's Closet Inc: $24,000 · Human ServicesCatie's C…ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesACRE FAMI…GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $17,000 · Human ServicesGREATER L…WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWAYSIDE Y…Mission of Deeds Inc: $9,000 · Human ServicesMission o…AFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL: $5,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN C…Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $57,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,000 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentUTEC Inc: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $9,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $7,000 · Youth DevelopmentLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF HOPE INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPROJECT LEARN INC: $30,000 · EducationREACH OUT AND READ INC: $9,000 · EducationRAR-MA INC: $2,000 · Education
Other$470,500Health$284,000Human Services$85,000Arts & Culture$80,000Youth Development$56,000Housing & Shelter$49,000Education$41,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL: $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $68,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: $57,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetD'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INC: $53,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT LEARN INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCatie's Closet Inc: $24,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGreater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: $23,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUTEC Inc: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC: $19,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetLOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $17,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC: $12,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMerrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCIRCLE HOME INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $9,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREACH OUT AND READ INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT CITIZENSHIP INC: $7,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL: $7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNEW ENGLAND QUILT MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCOALITION FOR A BETTER ACRE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAFRICAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF LOWELL: $5,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetCENTER FOR HOPE & HEALING INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $2,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DAIRY AND FOOD COUNCIL: $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCULTURAL ORGANIZATION OF LOWELL INC: $2,000 over 3y, 3.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
  • Who funds D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
  • Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
  • Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
  • Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
  • Who funds ACRE FAMILY CHILD CARE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL ASSOCIATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
  • Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds Merrimack Valley Housing Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds WAYSIDE YOUTH AND FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds CIRCLE HOME INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗

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…Richard K & Nancy L D…Theodore Edson Parker…Greater Lowell Commun…Demoulas FoundationCummings Foundation G…The Battles Foundatio…We Share A Common Thr…Salem Five Charitable…Trustees of the Ayer …Greater Lowell Health…The Saab Family Found…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA47.6× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Theodore Edson Parker Foundation · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Battles Foundation Inc · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Trustees of the Ayer Home · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · The Saab Family 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Center for Hope & Healing Inc: 73% of income from government
  • Cultural Organization of Lowell Inc: 52% of income from government
  • Lowell Association for the Blind Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Utec Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Acre Family Child Care Inc: 45% of income from government
  • Lowell Community Health Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc: 18% of income from government
  • The Lowell Festival Foundation: 12% of income from government
  • Project Citizenship Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Lowell General Hospital: 5% of income from government
  • Project Learn Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell: 3% of income from government
  • New England Quilt Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • New England Dairy and Food Council: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Wayside Youth and Family Support Network Inc: 1% of income from government
  • House of Hope Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 71 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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