· Private foundation
Charles C Foisy and Florida C a Foisy Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of CHARLES C FOISY AND FLORIDA C A FOISY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATO TO WORLD | $15,000 |
| PALS | $15,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR GREATER GOOD | $15,000 |
| KREMPELS CENTER | $10,000 |
| HOLY CROSS COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE | $9,500 |
| MERIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE | $5,000 |
| LIVE & LET LIVE FARM INC | $5,000 |
| METRO WEST HUMAINE SOCIETR | $5,000 |
| HANNAH'S HOUSE | $5,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $5,000 |
| SWEET PAWS RESCUE | $5,000 |
| LOON ECHO LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| ATKINSON LIONS CLUB | $3,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
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, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- WIWATOTOWORLD INC6× · 2020–2025 · $82k · revenue +59%
- KBKREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +38%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2020–2024 · $38k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- ZHZACK HEGER FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0% · 36% of their budget
- GWGIRLS WHO INVEST INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -23%
- HSHENRY SCHUELER 4149 FDNone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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.
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.
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.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Education and Research
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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…
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Watotoworld Inc. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 6% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 WATOTOWORLD INC ↗
- Who funds KREMPELS BRAIN INJURY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds ZACK HEGER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Hannah's House Inc ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS WHO INVEST INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds VISION COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK RIVER FELINE RESCUE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TUFTS MEDICINE CARE AT HOME INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Loon Echo Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HENRY SCHUELER 41 & 9 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Charles C Foisy and Florida C a Foisy 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.
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Natural History Society Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hannah's House Inc — 6% of income from government
- Tufts Medicine Care at Home Inc — 3% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 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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