· Private foundation
Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $20,000 |
| CCN HISTORIC PRESERVATION BUILDING FDN | $15,000 |
| NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN | $10,000 |
| MANITOU ART CENTER | $7,500 |
| FRESH ENERGY | $6,000 |
| EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ART AND NEWPORT | $5,000 |
| POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOSEPH'S ARTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE CAPE COAST AND ISLANDS NPR STATION | $3,000 |
| PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM | $3,000 |
| WEST END RACING CLUB | $3,000 |
| INSTITUE OF NOETIC SCIENCES | $2,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 55% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS7× · 2019–2025 · $161k · revenue +36%- CSCONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $84k · revenue +109%
- NHNewport Hospital Foundation4× · 2020–2025 · $72k · revenue +109%
Funded once
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6k · revenue +40%
NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +9%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 museum's mission is to celebrate maine's role in american art. to accomplish that mission the museum provides an extensive offering of collections, exhibitions, education and retail services to the general public.
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
The bruce cultivates discovery and wonder, engaging a broad audience through the power of art & science.
Maine Audubon works to conserve Maine's wildlife and habitat by engaging people of all ages in education, conservation, and action. We are helping the people of Maine become the nation's most informed and effective stewards of wildlife and…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Norman Bird Sanctuary Trust and the most unlike its peers is Fresh Energy. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 72 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 THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds CONWAY SCHOOL OF LANDSCAPE DESIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALLEN-CHASE FOUNDATION DBA EAGLEBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MANITOU ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRESH ENERGY ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN ART ASSOCIATION AND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Art & Newport ↗
- Who funds CCN HISTORIC BUILDING PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPHS ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE OF NOETIC SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds 18TH STREET ARTS COMPLEX ↗
- Who funds SOLSTICE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NORMAN BIRD SANCTUARY TRUST ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF GEORGIA INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN PUBLIC ART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM ↗
- Who funds PUTNEY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MANOMET INC ↗
- Who funds White Bison Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBERT POTTER LEAGUE FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT ART MUSEUM AND ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT PLAINS CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRURO CENTER FOR THE ARTS AT CASTLE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds TRURO HISTORICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
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: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Gramercy Park Foundation Inc · Hamilton Family Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · William Leatherbee Jr Charitable Trust · Larry and Anne Glenn Foundation Inc
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 organization Bird Charles Sumner Fdn Tr Udecl 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.
- Outer Cape Health Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Cape Cod Museum of Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Historical Society Inc — 0% of income from government
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 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.