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Douglass Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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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.

$50k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$105kHuman Services$72kHousing & Shelter$27kEnvironment$9kScience & Tech$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$700Employment$500Arts & Culture$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$245k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%ST JOSEPH'S ACADEMY: $500 → 17%Pathways For Children: $10k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%Pathways For Children: $5k → 10%Pathways For Children: $5k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%Pathways For Children: $5k → 10%PATHWAY FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%PATHWAY FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $5k → 10%Pathways For Children: $3k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $3k → 10%Pathways For Children: $1k → 10%Pathways For Children: $250 → 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$258k · 8 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

$258k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+11%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% 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
Human ServicesEnvironmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureScience & TechOther
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

  • PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $71k · revenue +33%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    6× · 2019–2025 · $8k · revenue +36%
  • GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED
    2× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +348%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $500 · revenue +46%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500 · revenue +71%
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
Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund Inc

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…

Environment
2
The Wayside Inn

Preserving and providing historical facilities, and promoting early american humanities and culture through hospitality, lodging, education, programming, and events.

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3
Boston Police Detectives Benevolent Society

Labor relations with employer; labor contract and grievance negotiations, recognition of members and retirees, and health, dental, and legal defense member benefits.

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4
Gloucester Tourism Alliance Inc Dba Discover Gloucester

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.

Community Improvement
5
Greater Worcester Land Trust

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.

Environment
6
Loomis Communities Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Greater Greenville Association of Realtors Inc

Providing standards, guidelines, and procedures to those members engaged in practice of the real estate profession

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8
Massachusetts Golf Association Inc

To promote and preserve the integrity and values of golf throughout the commonwealth of massachusetts.

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9
Cape Ann Chamber of Commerce

Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.

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10
Gore Place Society

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.

Arts & Culture
11
The Natural Science Center of Greensboro Inc Dba Greensboro Science Center

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…

Arts & Culture
12
Massachusetts Association of Conservation Commissions Inc

The organization protects massachusetts natural resources by supporting conservation commissions through education and advocacy.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations; 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.
04the grantee network

12 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. 12 of the 18 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MGH Cancer Center: $100,000 · OtherMGH Cancer CenterMGH: $50,000 · OtherMGHHOME BASE: $25,000 · OtherHOME BASE+4 more: $5,550 · OtherPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $71,250 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC+3 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $7,750 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · EnvironmentGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Science & TechROSIE'S PLACE INC: $500 · Housing & ShelterGLOUCESTER SUPERIOR OFFICERS ASSOC: $500 · EmploymentCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $500 · Arts & CultureLANESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $400 · Community Improvement
Other$180,550Human Services$73,750Environment$8,750Science & Tech$2,000Housing & Shelter$500Employment$500Arts & Culture$500Community Improvement$400

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $71,250 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $7,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOUCESTER SUPERIOR OFFICERS ASSOC: $500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetST JOSEPH ACADEMY INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLANESVILLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $400 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetGLOUCESTER POLICE RELIEF ASSN: $200 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Institution for Savin…Essex County Communit…Eastern Bank Foundati…National Philanthropi…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation IncMA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Douglass Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Douglass Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 18 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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