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Douglass Family Charitable Foundation
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 $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MGH | $25,000 |
| HOME BASE | $15,000 |
| PATHWAY FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS | $2,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE | $1,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $500 |
| LANESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER | $100 |
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 (FY17–25, $73k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of those 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 +36% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +33%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +36%
GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +348%
Funded once
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $5k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +46%
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +71%
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.
Preserve and promote awareness of gloucesters fisheries, heritage, and the fabric of gloucester, massachusetts community;protecting and enhancing the port of gloucester and the ports infrastructure;and, in order to aid fishermen, serving…
Preserving and providing historical facilities, and promoting early american humanities and culture through hospitality, lodging, education, programming, and events.
Labor relations with employer; labor contract and grievance negotiations, recognition of members and retirees, and health, dental, and legal defense member benefits.
To promote tourism and the visitor-based economy by increasing awareness of the seaport of gloucester massachusetts through the use of visitor guides and a website.
The greater worcester land trust promotes the protection, stewardship and appreciation of open space to enhance the quality of life and functioning of natural systems in worcester and the region.
The mission of the loomis communities is to open the door of positive aging of older adults by providing a continuum of high quality services which promotes independence and meets the changing needs of people throughout the aging process.
Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession
To promote and preserve the integrity and values of golf throughout the commonwealth of massachusetts.
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
The mission of gore place is to preserve and promote the 1806 country estate of christopher and rebecca gore as a unique community resource that tells the story of early 19th century american life.
The mission of the center is inspiring curiosity and connecting communities through science and conservation. we accomplish this by providing ever-evolving experiences where exploration and imagination intersect, igniting a lifelong…
The organization protects massachusetts natural resources by supporting conservation commissions through education and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Gloucester Police Relief Assn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER SUPERIOR OFFICERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LANESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER POLICE RELIEF ASSN ↗
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: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Douglass Family Charitable Foundation 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% 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.