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Douglas Drane Charitable Trust
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Care Dimensions | $50,000 |
| Association on Aging in New York | $25,000 |
| Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School | $20,000 |
| I AM ALS | $20,000 |
| Masssachusetts Wonderfund Inc | $20,000 |
| Coalition to Transform Advanced Care | $15,000 |
| Childrens Hospital Boston | $10,000 |
| Pingree School | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $60k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, 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.
11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CTCoalition To Transform Advanced Car4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +17%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +41%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FHFlower Hill Foundationone grant, 2020 · $30k
- NMNano Media Incone grant, 2023 · $30k
- USUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGNgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +39%
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…
Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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.
To operate exclusively for the benefit of The Children's Hospital Corporation and its affiliated organizations in the conduct of their charitable, educational and scientific functions.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of Care Campaign and the most unlike its peers is Jitegemee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 17 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 Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION ON AGING IN NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds St Edwards University ↗
- Who funds Coalition To Transform Advanced Car ↗
- Who funds ESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds I AM ALS ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JITEGEMEE 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: National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Douglas Drane Charitable Trust 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.
- Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% 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.
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