· Private foundation
Brace Cove Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $22k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOUCESTER PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $100,000 |
| HAWC | $70,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE NORTH SHORE | $5,000 |
| WELLSPRING | $5,000 |
| ROCKPORT PUBLIC SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| TOGETHER GLOUCESTER | $1,000 |
| BIOMIMICRY NEW ENGLAND | $1,000 |
| CAPE ANN VERNAL POND TEAM | $1,000 |
| SEASIDE SUSTAINABILITY | $1,000 |
| GLOUCESTER FRATERNITY CLUB | $1,000 |
| MAGNOLIA LIBRARY | $500 |
| THATCHER ISLAND ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| HAMMOND CASTLE MUSEUM | $500 |
| ROCKPORT EXCHANGE | $500 |
| GLOUCESTER MEETING HOUSE FOUNDATION | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $141k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
ACTION INC2× · 2020–2022 · $75k · revenue +312%
SALEM PANTRY INC3× · 2019–2021 · $68k · revenue +991%
WELLSPRING HOUSE INC2× · 2019–2020 · $20k · revenue +96%
Funded once
Groundwork Lawrence Incone grant, 2021 · $38k · revenue -23%- CACAPE ANN ART HAVEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +81%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $26k
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.
Backyard growers cultivates healthy, connected, resilient communities and fights for food sovereignty by empowering people to grow their own food. we increase equitable access to vegetable gardens and the resources people and communities…
Preserve and promote awareness of gloucesters fisheries, heritage, and the fabric of gloucester, massachusetts community;protecting and enhancing the port of gloucester and the ports infrastructure;and, in order to aid fishermen, serving…
To inspire and connect the north central massachusetts community to create equitable access to healthy food and environmental sustainability through education, collaboration and advocacy. growing places supports 27 north central…
Green Cambridge strives to create a more sustainable city protect the environment and educate youth and adults about the importance of environmental issue.
Foster the creation and appreciation of the fine arts by holding art exhibitions; conducting educational programs; acquiring and displaying a permanent collection of representational cape ann works of art; maintaining and preserving our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. 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 19 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 59 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 ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS INN INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds THREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY PROMISE NORTH SHORE BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLOUCESTER FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Cornerstone Creative Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Northshore Education Consortium ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Amirah Inc ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GARDENERS INC ↗
- Who funds THACHER & STRAITSMOUTH ISLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN VERNAL POND TEAM ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST R FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SEASIDE SUSTAINABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER FRATERNITY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BIOMIMICRY NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
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: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · New England Biolabs Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation
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 Brace Cove Foundation Inc 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.
- Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
- Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Arpeggione Ensemble Inc — 4% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Gloucester Writers Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Filmmakers Collaborative Inc — 1% 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.
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