· Private foundation
Charles E Harwood Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VERMONT ACADEMY | $45,953 |
| SHRINNERS HOSPITAL | $45,953 |
| NEER NORTH INC | $20,000 |
| PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT | $20,000 |
| RED SOX FOUNDATION | $10,953 |
| FRIENDS OF NEWBURY TOWN LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| THE JIMMY FUND | $10,000 |
| RODMAN FOR KIDS - ONE BEAD - BOSTON | $10,000 |
| MSCPA AT NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER | $10,000 |
| SILVER LINING MENTORING | $10,000 |
| NORTHEAST ARC | $7,500 |
| HOSPICE OF THE NORTH SHORE | $5,953 |
| THOMAS SMITH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–24, $12k) 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Charles E Harwood Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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
- VAVERMONT ACADEMY5× · 2021–2025 · $285k · revenue +60%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +44%- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $41k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- TTABCOMMone grant, 2021 · $30k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE SALISBURY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $16k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE AMESBURY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $15k
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.
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.
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…
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Provide a range of high-quality, community-based, behavioral health services to empower individuals and families to live healthy and successful lives.
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 MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY ("THE INFIRMARY") IS A NOT-FOR-PROFIT TEACHING HOSPITAL CONDUCTING PATIENT CARE AND RESEARCH. THE INFIRMARY IS A TEACHING HOSPITAL OF HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL AND AN INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR RESEARCH.…
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
Our mission is to make emotional well-being essential to overall health and building a supportive community for all, through effective, integrated care that is tailored to the way those we serve live. Aspire Health Alliance is helping to…
To link with communities to create conditions for inclusion and social change. the organization matches people with intellectual and developmental disabilities with caregivers who support people to remain with their family or live in a…
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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 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 VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds New England Equine Rescue - North Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ROWLEY FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Tough Warrior Princesses ↗
- Who funds WOMAN'S FRIEND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SILVER LINING MENTORING INC ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILYAID BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds HAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THOMAS E SMITH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES 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: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Doris L Benz Trust · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving 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 Charles E Harwood 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc — 46% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% 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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