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Enable Hope Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k35 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ZEITERION PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $15,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW | $10,000 |
| NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CHARLESTOWN NURSERY SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIA | $2,000 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $2,000 |
| THE TOWER SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD | $2,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $2,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,000 |
| DATMA | $1,000 |
| PLIMOTHPATUXET | $1,000 |
| BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST | $1,000 |
| BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of your 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.
47 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- OSOUR SISTERS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +52%
- YOYouth Opportunities Unlimited Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +205%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF DARTMOUTHone grant, 2019 · $20k
- PEPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF MASSACHUSETTSone grant, 2017 · $5k
- GLGLOBAL LEARNING CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
To inspire appreciation, understanding and stewardship of our natural environment through discovery and learning.
The mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
To acquire, preserve and interpret artifacts of nahant, massachusetts, illustrating its history, prehistory and that of people associated with it, for the enjoyment, education and enrichment of the public.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
The nichols house museum preserves and interprets the 1804 federal townhouse and its collection that was home to rose standish nichols and her sisters. the museum fosters curiosity, creativity and change-making, inspired by the…
We save and share new england's past to engage and inform present and future generations.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Boating Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lothropp Family Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
41 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. 41 of the 77 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 OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE STURGIS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LOTHROPP FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW BEDFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF NEW BEDFORD INC DBA HUMANE SOCIETY&SHELTER-SOUTHCOAST ↗
- Who funds ONE HEALTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds JAMES ARNOLD MANSION INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds 1717 MEETINGHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IT'S ALL ABOUT THE ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWN CARDIOVASCULAR GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY BOATING CENTER 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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Boston Foundation Inc · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · New Bedford Day Nursery Inc · Bascom Charitable Foundation · The Ludes Family 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 Enable Hope 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.
- New Bedford Port Society — 41% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc — 35% of income from government
- National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Your Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Sturgis Library — 0% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.
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