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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.

$229k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$187kYouth Development$170kHuman Services$113kHealth$101kEducation$95kFood & Nutrition$92kEnvironment$62kCrime & Legal$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $159,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $229,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $70,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $95k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $64k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boston Foundation Inc$14,000
Casa Project Inc$10,000
Justice Resource Institute Inc$10,000
Backyard Growers$10,000
North Shore Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth (nAGL$10,000
Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc$10,000
The Resolution Center Inc$9,000
Eliot Community Human Services Inc$9,000
Maritime Gloucester$8,000
Pathways for Children Inc$8,000
Gloucester Education Foundation$8,000
Action Inc$8,000
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Inc$8,000
Cape Ann Art Haven Inc$8,000
North Shore Health Project$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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Pathways for Children Inc: $12k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $12k → 10%Pathways for Children Inc: $10k → 10%Action Inc: $10k → 10%Action Inc: $10k → 10%Action Inc: $8k → 10%Pathways for Children Inc: $8k → 10%Pathways for Children Inc: $8k → 10%Pathways for Children Inc: $8k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $8k → 10%Action Inc: $8k → 10%Gloucester Celebration Corporation: $6k → 10%Wellspring House Inc: $6k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $12k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $8k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $8k → 10%YMCA of the North Shore Inc: $7k → 10%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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$733k · 21 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
18

Total granted

$733k
$137k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+27%

Still filing today

95%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • JUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +31%
  • HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $56k · revenue +28%
  • YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +121%

Funded once

  • AI
    ADVOCATES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +114%
  • GC
    GLOUCESTER CULTURAL INITIATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $12k
  • GW
    GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC
    one grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +15%
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
North Shore Arts Association of Gloucester Inc

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…

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2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
3
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

—
4
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
5
Falmouth Historical Society Inc

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.

Unclassified
6
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

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7
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
8
One SouthCoast Chamber Inc

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.

Community Improvement
9
Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund Inc

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…

Environment
10
Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History

Arts & Culture
11
New England Quilt Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
12
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groton Hill Music Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 42 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
29/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC: $55,500 · OtherHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INCTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $44,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDTHE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATIONINC: $23,250 · OtherTHE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE C…NORTH SHORE HEALTH PROJECT INC: $16,000 · OtherGLOUCESTER CULTURAL INITIATIVE INC: $12,000 · OtherBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $48,000 · OtherBACKYARD GROWERS INCNORTH SHORE ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH (NAGLY): $31,760 · OtherNORTH SHORE ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUA…Boston Foundation Inc: $14,000 · OtherCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $14,000 · Other+6 more: $43,500 · Other+6 moreCAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC: $51,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN ART HAVEN IN…EXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureEXPRESS YOURSELF INCESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureESSEX HISTORICAL SOCI…GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureGLOUCESTER WRITERS CE…CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $12,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEUM INCGLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,300 · Arts & CultureYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $54,662 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORTH …PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $46,277 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILD…ACTION INC: $35,500 · Human ServicesACTION INCGLOUCESTER CELEBRATION CORPORATION CO ROBERT J GILLIS JR: $6,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesGloucester Education Foundation Inc: $50,000 · EducationGloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Inc: $10,000 · EducationFriends of Northshore Education Consortium: $6,000 · EducationELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $25,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $20,000 · HealthADVOCATES INC: $12,000 · HealthNORTHEAST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CORPORATION: $7,000 · HealthJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $58,250 · Crime & LegalNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $20,000 · EnvironmentOcean Alliance Inc: $16,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · EnvironmentHARVARD CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,600 · Environment
Other$342,010Arts & Culture$173,800Human Services$148,439Education$66,000Health$64,000Crime & Legal$58,250Environment$48,600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJUSTICE RESOURCE INSTITUTE INC: $58,250 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC: $55,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $54,662 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC: $51,000 over 6y, 5.0% of budgetEXPRESS YOURSELF INC: $50,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetGloucester Education Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetBACKYARD GROWERS INC: $48,000 over 5y, 5.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $46,277 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $44,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetACTION INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SHORE ALLIANCE OF GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER YOUTH (NAGLY): $31,760 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RESOLUTION CENTER INC FKA NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY MEDIATIONINC: $23,250 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INC: $22,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetNORTH SHORE HEALTH PROJECT INC: $16,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOcean Alliance Inc: $16,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAR PATH FOR VETERANS NEW ENGLAND INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADVOCATES INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC: $12,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCASA PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGLOUCESTER MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetGROTON HILL MUSIC INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY BAY HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND MUSEUMS INCORPORATED: $7,500 over 1y, 23% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CORPORATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Northshore Education Consortium: $6,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCAPE ANN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGLOUCESTER CELEBRATION CORPORATION CO ROBERT J GILLIS JR: $6,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHARVARD CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,600 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLYNN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS LTD: $5,300 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Essex County Communit…Boston Foundation IncInstitution for Savin…The Applied Materials…The Peter and Elizabe…Salem Five Charitable…McCarthy Family Found…Cummings Foundation G…United Way Of Massach…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Jebediah Foundati…Brace Cove Foundation…
Essex County Community Foundation IncMA45.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Bruce J Anderson Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bruce J Anderson Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to Bruce J Anderson Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 42 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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