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Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua at a glance

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Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$91k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$269kFood & Nutrition$127kYouth Development$83kPhilanthropy$82kHousing & Shelter$80kHuman Services$48kCrime & Legal$23kAnimals$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC$40,000
BREAD & ROSES INC$15,000
LAWRENCE BOYS CLUB & GIRLS CLUB INC$15,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$10,000
LAZARUS HOUSE INC$7,500
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC$2,500
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Family Services of the Merrimack Valley: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$634k · 10 repeat orgs$36k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
5

Total granted

$634k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+50%

Still filing today

90%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionCrime & LegalPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $245k · revenue +492%
  • LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +68%
  • BREAD & ROSES INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +723%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +51%
  • MA
    MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM
    one grant, 2023 · $8k
  • TW
    THE WISH PROJECTgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +40%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
2
The Laurence School

Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…

Education
3
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…

Crime & Legal
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
Legal Services for Maine Elders Inc

To provide free high quality legal services to maine residents aged sixty & over, who qualify for legal services under the older americans act, 42 usca sec. 3001 et seq, as amended.

Crime & Legal
6
Jewish Vocational Service Inc

To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.

Employment
7
Lincoln Behavioral Services

To provide comprehensive outpatient mental health services to over 5400 individuals and their families in a consumer driven person centered delivery system. Approximately 15% of our staff members are our clients who are involved in a…

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

—
10
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
11
Lawrence School

Teach students using diverse learning strategies, ignite their potential and inspire academic, personal and social success

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12
Massachusetts Council of Human Services Providers Inc

To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc; the most unlike its peers is Neighbors in Need Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
13/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $245,000 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INCPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $19,000 · EducationPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND+1 more: $5,000 · EducationBREAD & ROSES INC: $74,500 · Food & NutritionBREAD & ROSES INCNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $52,500 · Food & NutritionNEIGHBORS IN NEED I…LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $82,500 · Youth DevelopmentLAWRENCE BOYS & GI…MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentMERRIMACK VALLEY Y…ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $81,600 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY …COMMUNITY INROADS INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY INR…LAZARUS HOUSE INC: $55,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $25,000 · OtherHABITAT FO…MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM: $8,000 · OtherMSPCA AT N…THE WISH PROJECT: $6,500 · OtherTHE WISH P…PROJECT HOME AGAIN: $17,500 · OtherPROJECT HO…MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 · OtherMASSACHUSE…+1 more: $1,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $22,500 · Crime & Legal
Education$269,000Food & Nutrition$127,000Youth Development$122,500Philanthropy$86,600Housing & Shelter$55,000Other$68,000Crime & Legal$22,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $245,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetLAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC: $82,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $81,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $74,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $52,500 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOME AGAIN: $17,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WISH PROJECT: $6,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INROADS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Cummings Foundation G…Artemas W Stearns Tru…Josephine G Russell T…Rogers Family Foundat…We Share A Common Thr…Essex County Communit…Cornelius a Wood 1969…Salem Five Charitable…Arbella Insurance Fou…Pentucket Bank Charit…RCB Charitable Founda…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA27× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Josephine G Russell Trust · Rogers Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Pentucket Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Neighbors in Need Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy: 1% of income from government
  • Lazarus House Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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