· Private foundation
Copeland Family Foundation Inc
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.
The 97 grants below total $851,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,054,025 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $203,025 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k45 grants · $231k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Milton Council on Aging | $30,000 |
| National Education for Assistance Dog Services | $25,000 |
| Milton National Little League | $25,000 |
| Milton Residents Fund | $20,000 |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $20,000 |
| Gavin Foundation | $20,000 |
| Town of Milton Police Department | $20,000 |
| Interfaith Social Services | $15,000 |
| Milton Art Center | $15,000 |
| Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp, Inc. | $10,000 |
| St. Vincent dePaul Society | $10,000 |
| Cops for Kids with Cancer | $10,000 |
| Crohn's & Colitis Foundation of America, Inc. | $10,000 |
| The Hull Lifesaving Museum, Inc. | $10,000 |
| Cardinal Cushing Centers | $10,000 |
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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
90 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +7%
- GFGAVIN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $40k · revenue +35%
INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC2× · 2021–2022 · $30k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- MPMilton Public Schoolsone grant, 2021 · $64k
- MLMILTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue -20%
- TBThe Blue Hills Meteorological Observatoryone grant, 2021 · $25k
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 focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
Dog orphans, inc., was founded in 1971 by a small group of animal lovers dedicated to saving dogs from pain and suffering. we house stray, homeless and unwanted dogs until suitable permanent homes are found. we teach and promote the…
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
Quincy animal shelter is dedicated to finding and placing every animal in a safe, loving home with a caring family. the shelter is committed to the humane adn ethical treatement of all animals in its care.
Provide a safe harbor for german shepherd dogs
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
Forever home rescue new england, inc is an all-volunteer, shelterless rescue group whose mission is to find loving forever homes for the dogs they rescue.
The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.
The mission of nantucket safe harbor for animals, nisha, is to provide shelter and care for animals in need and to promote animal welfare through humane education, outreach and advocacy.
To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wellspring Inc and the most unlike its peers is Captain Forbes House Museum. 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 39 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 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.
53 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. 53 of the 107 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.
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- Who funds INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC ↗
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- Who funds Milton Animal League Inc ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PARAGON CAROUSEL INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
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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.
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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.
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