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Douglas Drane Charitable Trust at a glance

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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.

$165k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$458kHuman Services$110kEducation$81kArts & Culture$60kPhilanthropy$30k
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$957k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Care Dimensions$50,000
Association on Aging in New York$25,000
I AM ALS$20,000
Masssachusetts Wonderfund Inc$20,000
Essex North Shore Agricultural & Technical School$20,000
Coalition to Transform Advanced Care$15,000
Childrens Hospital Boston$10,000
Pingree School$5,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Masssachusetts WOnderfund Inc: $20k → 16%Masssachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $20k → 16%Masssachusetts Wonderfund Inc: $20k → 16%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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$655k · 11 repeat orgs$84k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
5

Total granted

$655k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+14%

Still filing today

82%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CT
    Coalition To Transform Advanced Car
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +17%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • FH
    Flower Hill Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $30k
  • NM
    Nano Media Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $30k
  • US
    UNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGNgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue +39%
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
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

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.

Health
2
MaineGeneral Health

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.

Health
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
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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5
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
6
Boston Children's Network Specialty Physicians Inc

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…

Health
7
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
8
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

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…

Health
9
Emerson Health System Inc

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…

Health
10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

—
11
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
12
Children's Medical Center Corporation

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United States of Care Campaign; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Massachusetts General Hospital: $150,000 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitalBeth Israel Deaconess Medical: $125,000 · OtherBeth Israel Deaconess MedicalCare Dimensions Inc: $65,000 · OtherCare Dimensions IncASSOCIATION ON AGING IN NEW YORK: $50,200 · OtherASSOCIATION ON AGING IN NEW YORKESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 · OtherESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INCFlower Hill Foundation: $30,000 · OtherFlower Hill FoundationNano Media Inc: $30,000 · OtherNano Media IncCoalition To Transform Advanced Car: $40,000 · HealthCoalition To Trans…Children's Hospital Corporation: $30,000 · HealthChildren's Hospita…I AM ALS: $30,000 · HealthI AM ALSUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN: $12,500 · HealthUNITED STATES OF C…BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $60,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUS…St Edwards University: $45,000 · EducationTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationTHE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC: $30,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$480,200Health$117,500Human Services$60,000Education$51,000Arts & Culture$30,000

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 budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASSOCIATION ON AGING IN NEW YORK: $50,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSt Edwards University: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCoalition To Transform Advanced Car: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR ART & HEALING INC: $30,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $30,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetI AM ALS: $30,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES OF CARE CAMPAIGN: $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJITEGEMEE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Philanthropic TrustPA9.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Douglas Drane Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglas Drane Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Douglas Drane Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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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