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Carlson Family 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAMILY AID BOSTON | $90,000 |
| BREWSTER ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| CAPE ANN HISTORICAL MUSEU | $20,000 |
| THACHER ISLAND ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| PERKINS SCHOOL FOR BLIND | $10,000 |
| SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| 22MOHAWKS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| HUNDRED CLUB OF MA | $5,000 |
| NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| ROCKPORT MUSIC ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| WELLSPRING HOUSE | $1,000 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 86% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
26 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- FBFAMILYAID BOSTON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $172k · revenue +260%
- BABrewster Academy9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +34%
- COCamp O-AT-KA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- GMGLOUCESTER MOVIE GENOMICS INSTITUTone grant, 2019 · $10k
ENDICOTT COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +37%- CFCOLLINGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The rhode island historical society, through its collections, museums, and educational initiatives, welcomes everyone to engage with rhode island's complex and significant past.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
To promote understanding of the history of massachusetts and the nation by collecting and communicating materials and resources that foster historical knowledge.
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
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.
Your grantees are a median of 55 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 46 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 THACHER & STRAITSMOUTH ISLANDS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Brewster Academy ↗
- Who funds Camp O-AT-KA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ROCKPORT ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds 22 MOHAWKS CORP ↗
- Who funds SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER CELEBRATION CORPORATION CO ROBERT J GILLIS JR ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE ARTS ASSOCIATION OF GLOUCESTER 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · Hildreth Stewart Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Carlson Family 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- 22 Mohawks Corp — 10% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Endicott College — 1% of income from government
- Rockport Art Association — 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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