· Private foundation
Brooks Grace E Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAMARITANS INC | $13,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS ADOPTION RESOURCE EXCHANGE | $10,000 |
| MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC | $10,000 |
| RAR-MA (RAISING A READER MASSACHUSETTS) | $10,000 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $332k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 87% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- WIWELLSPRING INC5× · 2017–2021 · $130k · revenue +68%
- BDBrockton Day Nursery Inc5× · 2018–2024 · $58k · revenue +35%
- RMRIZE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2023 · $50k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- GIGOSNOLD INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue +1%
- SSSouth Shore Young Men's Christian Associationone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +10%
BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +64%
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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…
To lead the assisted living industry in its service of seniors through advocacy, education, operational support, and enhanced growth opportunities.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
Homecare services and home health aide services.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
To help vulnerable children and their families build permanent, positive change.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Scituate Corse Foundation. 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 38 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) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 36 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 WELLSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds EMH Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds Brockton Day Nursery Inc ↗
- Who funds RIZE MASSACHUSETTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc ↗
- Who funds GOSNOLD INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE SOUTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SCITUATE CORSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON CHINATOWN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL INC ↗
- Who funds ASCENSION CAREER TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH LAW ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA DROSTE COUNSELING SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC ↗
- Who funds SAILS INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Harold Brooks Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Clipper Ship 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 Brooks Grace E Trust 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.
- Hopewell Inc — 83% of income from government
- The Arc of the South Shore Inc — 78% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Health Law Advocates Inc — 52% of income from government
- Rize Massachusetts Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boston Chinatown Neighborhood Center Inc — 38% of income from government
- Brockton Day Nursery Inc — 36% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Walker Inc — 26% of income from government
- Sails Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Emh Recovery Inc — 14% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wellspring Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm 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.