· Public charity
Bruce J Anderson Foundation
Grantmaking: To assist in the fields of environmental protection, historic preservation, the arts and mental health in Cape Ann and the Nashua River Watershed.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 18 grants below total $159,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $229,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $70,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boston Foundation Inc | $14,000 |
| Backyard Growers | $10,000 |
| Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc | $10,000 |
| Casa Project Inc | $10,000 |
| Justice Resource Institute Inc | $10,000 |
| North Shore Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth (nAGL | $10,000 |
| The Resolution Center Inc | $9,000 |
| Eliot Community Human Services Inc | $9,000 |
| Cape Ann Art Haven Inc | $8,000 |
| North Shore Health Project | $8,000 |
| YMCA of the North Shore Inc | $8,000 |
| Gloucester Education Foundation | $8,000 |
| Maritime Gloucester | $8,000 |
| Action Inc | $8,000 |
| Pathways for Children Inc | $8,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $148k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +51% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 2 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, 88% 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
JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +31%
HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +28%
YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +121%
Funded once
- AIADVOCATES INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +114%
- GCGLOUCESTER CULTURAL INITIATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $12k
- GWGLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +19%
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.
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…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
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.
The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.
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 protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
The n.e. quilt museum uses quilts and the stories of quiltmaking to inspire and educate quilters and the general public. the museum presents, preserves, and studies american quiltmaking, both past and present.
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc and the most unlike its peers is LuminArtz. 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 37 years old; the field is 16. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 42 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 JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds EXPRESS YOURSELF INC ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH (NAGLY) ↗
- Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds THE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Ocean Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Inc ↗
- Who funds CASA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON HILL MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUMS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAMP STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARITIME HERITAGE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Northshore Education Consortium ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds LuminArtz ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER CELEBRATION CORPORATION CO ROBERT J GILLIS JR ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · McCarthy Family Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Brace Cove 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 Bruce J Anderson Foundation 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.
- North Shore Health Project Inc — 90% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- The Resolution Center Inc Fka North Shore Community Mediationinc — 60% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation — 24% of income from government
- Camp Starfish Inc — 18% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cape Ann Symphony Orchestra Inc — 4% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gloucester Writers Center 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
- Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Harvard Conservation Trust — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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.
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