· Private foundation
Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARION FOUNDATION | $5,250 |
| ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| THAYER ACADEMY | $2,500 |
| SOUTH COAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| TENACRE ANNUAL FUND | $1,500 |
| SOUTH COAST HEALTH SYSTEMS | $1,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HARVARD TENNIS | $750 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $500 |
| THE POSSE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $500 |
| YWCA | $500 |
| MATTAPOISETT LAND TRUST | $500 |
| WINCHENDON SCHOOL | $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 (FY21–23, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 +28% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +5%- TOTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +28%
WHEATON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $8k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OFone grant, 2020 · $4k
- TPTHOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES INCone grant, 2023 · $500 · revenue -5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $500
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.
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…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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.
William james college strives to be a preeminent college of psychology that integrates rigorous academic instruction with extensive field education and close attention to professional development. we assume an ongoing social responsibility…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Thoroughbred Placement Resources 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 37 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) — 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 12% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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 ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR LEARNING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds HACKLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEMASKET GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MUHLENBERG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTAPOISETT LIBRARY TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds Mattapoisett Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER JEWISH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THOROUGHBRED PLACEMENT RESOURCES 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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Manfredi Family Foundation · Genie & Donald Rice Char Tr · The Croll Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002
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 Christopher & Patricia Higgins Arnold 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.
- The Nemasket Group Inc — 91% of income from government
- Northstar Learning Centers Inc — 63% of income from government
- Mattapoisett Land Trust Inc — 13% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mattapoisett Historical Society — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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.