· Private foundation
Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $14k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORS IN NEED | $25,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY YMCA | $12,000 |
| THE WISH PROJECT INC | $10,000 |
| PROJECT HOME AGAIN | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK | $9,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +190% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $195k · revenue +492%
NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +996%- MVMERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +69%
Funded once
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +10%
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue +20%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Loaves & fishes' mission is to provide nutritious food, in an atmosphere of kindness and respect, to individuals in need who reside in ayer, devens, dunstable, groton, harvard, littleton, and shirley, massachusetts.
Provide emergency food and financial assistance to needy families.
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…
To provide food, clothing, household goods and other services to people in need who live in montclair, nj and other neighboring communities in essex county
Household goods provides a full range of donated furniture and household items, free of charge, to help people in need make a home.
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
The organization's mission is to provide management and supporting services for related organizations which own and operate low-income housing units for qualified individuals in the city of cambridge, ma.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
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,…
Provide and promote humane animal welfare to pets in need.
To provide safe and sanitary cost-effective housing and access to nutritious food to persons and families of low and moderate income in the greater new bedford massachusetts area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lazarus House Inc and 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.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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 ESPERANZA ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME AGAIN ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WISH PROJECT ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
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: Cornelius a & Muriel P Wood Tua · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Artemas W Stearns Trust · Josephine G Russell Trust · Rogers Family Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Saab Family Foundation · The Pfizer 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 Cornelius a Wood 1969 Char Tr 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.
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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.