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Ellen Abbott Gilman Trust U/W 0732200

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$39k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0176% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20212025.

Education$53kHealth$45kYouth Development$23kHuman Services$18kCrime & Legal$10kArts & Culture$10kOther$51k
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$523k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOUNTAIN SCHOOL OF MILTON ACADEMY$10,000
CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND$5,000
READ TO A CHILD$5,000
MA AUDOBON SOCIETY$5,000
NORTH BENNET STREET SCHOOL$5,000
YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON$5,000
Individual grant recipient$4,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%DANVERS COMMUNITY YMCA: $3k → 10%YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON: $5k → 16%THE FLEETFUND: $5k → 8%LITTLE BROTHERS - FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$167k · 11 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

$167k
$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+26%

Still filing today

73%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

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

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • MILTON ACADEMY
    2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +43%
  • NB
    North Bennet Street School
    4× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • LB
    LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • AF
    ARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +44%
  • MA
    Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc

Our mission is to always welcome and connect young people and families to opportunities that embrace diversity, nurture growth, and inspire success.

Youth Development
2
Brookline Teen Center

Btc's vision is for all brookline students to engage in their community and emerge ready for college, career, and beyond. our mission is to provide a platform where all teens can explore, create, and discover who they are. through…

Youth Development
3
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

4
Massachusetts Eye and Ear Associates Inc

MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR ASSOCIATES, INC. ("MEEA") IS A SPECIALTY PHYSICIAN GROUP PRACTICE. IT PROVIDES CARE FOR PATIENTS OF THE MASSACHUSETTS EYE AND EAR INFIRMARY, INC. ("MEEI"), A RELATED ORGANIZATION. THE PRACTICE SPECIALIZES IN…

Health
5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
The Sportsmen's Tennis & Enrichment Center Inc

To build leaders on the court, in the classroom, and in the community by providing academic, wellness, and social development programs alongside recreational and competitive tennis instruction for youth and adults. sportsmen's tennis and…

7
Trustees of Phillips Academy

Phillips academy is a coeducational, boarding school located in andover, massachusetts for students in grades nine through twelve and post-graduates. the school strives to help young people from diverse backgrounds achieve their potential…

Education
8
Mass General Brigham Incorporated

Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.

Health
9
Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston

To advance the aspirations of families and individuals to enrich their lives, bodies and spirits, by providing the best in contemporary programs and experiences, informed by jewish values for today's jews and the people in their lives.

Human Services
10
Phillips Exeter Academy

Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…

Education
11
The Broad Institute Inc

The mission of the broad institute is to propel progress in biomedicine, through research aimed at the understanding and treatment of disease and the dissemination of scientific knowledge to the scientific community to benefit the public.…

Health
12
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary. 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 21 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MILTON ACADEMY — $20,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYNorth Bennet Street School — $18,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Street SchoolFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $10,000 · EducationFenway High School Fund CO F…READ TO A CHILD INC — $5,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INCMA AUDOBON SOCIETY — $29,000 · OtherMA AUDOBON SOCIETYRAW ART WORKS INC — $6,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INCVISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEMENT — $6,000 · OtherVISUALLY IMPAIRED ADVANCEME…Massachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $5,000 · OtherMassachusetts Adoption Reso…Individual grant recipient — $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+1 more — $1,000 · OtherTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR T…MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR INFIRMARY — $15,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR …OUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 · HealthOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVIC…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $23,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS…LITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesLITTLE BR…YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN…FLEET FUND INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesFLEET FUN…THE COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DANVERS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMU…JAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Crime & LegalARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$53,000Other$51,000Health$45,000Youth Development$23,000Human Services$18,000Crime & Legal$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFenway High School Fund CO Fenway High School — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetOUTER CAPE HEALTH SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE BROTHERS FRIENDS OF THE ELDERLY - BOSTON INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARTS FOR LEARNING MASSACHUSETTS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMassachusetts Adoption Resource Exchange Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLEET FUND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF DANVERS MASSACHUSETTS INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Liberty Mutual Foundation IncMA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Clinton H & Wilma T Shattuck Char Tr #0758945 · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Boston Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · 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 Ellen Abbott Gilman Trust U/W 0732200 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Outer Cape Health Services Inc18% of income from government
  • Raw Art Works Inc7% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Massachusetts Inc4% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc3% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc2% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get 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 · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 21 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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