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Chatham-Beech Charitable 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
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| TEMPLE BETH HILLEL | $2,806 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE | $2,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| SOUTH WINDSOR DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $1,500 |
| SINAI TEMPLE | $1,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC RADIO FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| WILA | $1,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND TENNIS AND EDU CENTER | $1,000 |
| MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| BUILDING LEADERS USING MUSIC ED IN | $1,000 |
| CT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CAMP ASSOCIATION | $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 (FY17–24, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% 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.
41 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- BHBAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +18%
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +110%- NENEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $11k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- BCBOURNE CONSERVATION TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +276%
- ESEMANUEL SYNAGOGUEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MSMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTTENING CANCER CEone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts and the most unlike its peers is Global Grassroots. 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 44 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
42 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 42 of the 67 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 BAYSTATE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GRASSROOTS ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE GOODNOW LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHFIELD MOUNT HERMON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTH WINDSOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OARS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST 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: Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fidelity Foundation · Shatz Schwartz and Fentin Charitable Foundation · The Sudbury Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Aetna 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 Chatham-Beech Charitable 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.
- Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Springfield Museums Corporation — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health 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.