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Essex County Community Foundation

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$14M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
302
Itemized grants FY2025
265
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$13M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$16,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$576,250
Organizations funded a year
111 to 292
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
20
Total assets, FY2025
$151M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Essex County Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving291$13M27%
FY2024265$15M22%
FY2023292$17M32%
FY2022289$13M36%
FY2021229$14M25%
FY2020247$17M43%
FY2019196$19M54%
FY2018111$4.7M42%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Community Improvement$26MEducation$18MHealth$15MHuman Services$13MPublic Benefit$7.3MArts & Culture$6.6MHousing & Shelter$5.9MYouth Development$5.7MOther$0

Where its grants go

Each grant at its grantee’s address, over the share of households in hardship around it.

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Essex County Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc$11,109,533927%
Groundwork Lawrence Inc$4,573,985998%
Lawrence Partnership Inc$3,769,815775%
Nectar Community Investments Inc$3,367,207616%
The Evelyn Lilly Lutz Foundation$2,581,137766%
Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc$2,557,38980%
Root Ns Inc$2,156,229928%
North Shore Community College Foundation Inc$1,656,525848%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,460,37040%
Leo Inc$1,333,60985%
Essex North Shore Agricultural Technical Foundation Inc$1,309,626567%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,278,60030%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,165,7723n/a
United States Catholic Conference$1,109,3637n/a
Action Inc$1,098,19181%
Lawrence Communityworks Inc$1,092,01895%
Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc$1,091,25088%
Wellspring House Inc$1,070,02787%
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc$1,065,66282%
Community Action Inc$1,001,13772%
North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc$948,500648%
Northeast Arc Inc$942,50051%
YMCA of the North Shore Inc$942,01791%
Entrepreneurship for All Inc$908,34345%
Peabody Essex Museum Inc$869,84071%
Town of North Andover$796,5004n/a
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$756,0006n/a
Pathways for Childreninc$731,16992%
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc$728,00593%
North Shore Community Action Programs Inc$718,11762%
Youth Development Organization Inc$703,150914%
Montserrat College Of Art Inc$695,25081%
Cape Ann Museum Inc$690,24675%
LEADS Inc$675,500429%
Museum of Fine Arts$590,00050%
The Pingree School Inc$587,20091%
North Shore Community Development Coalit$562,55073%
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc$561,04450%
Malden Catholic High School$550,0003n/a
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated$535,83377%
Citizens Inn Inc$528,58272%
Esperanza Academy Inc$524,30174%
Town of Andover$516,5004n/a
John Ashford Link House$490,250310%
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$486,04361%
Agespan Inc$479,54550%
Ipswich River Watershed Association$467,71692%
Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc$464,45264%
Merrimack Valley Young Men's Christian Association Inc$439,02991%
Endicott College$430,10080%
Northeast Hospital Corporation$428,41090%
Lawrence Family Development Inc$425,67693%
Trustees of Boston University$418,76180%
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I$415,31283%
UTEC Inc$413,95052%
Trustees of Phillips Academy$408,55050%
Eliot Community Human Services Inc$407,54780%
The Trustees of Reservations$406,30090%
New American Association of Massachusetts Inc$401,13677%
Lawrence General Hospital$398,50070%
Tufts Medical Center Parent Inc$394,0003n/a
Babson College$390,00040%
St Johns Preparatory School Inc$386,5004n/a
The Salem Mission Inc$383,25073%
Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative Inc$380,000732%
Harborlight Community Partners Inc$374,65091%
Lawrence Public Schools$366,7854n/a
Backyard Growers Inc$363,000830%
Northern Essex Community College Foundation Inc$362,000519%
LEAP for Education Inc$360,05073%
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$359,35091%
Lynn Community Health Inc$356,10870%
Milton Academy$350,50070%
Essex County Greenbelt Association$345,73391%
Landmark School Inc$337,00060%
Metro North Regional Employment Board$331,62651%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$329,25040%
Neighbors in Need Inc$321,832610%
Conservation Law Foundation Inc$317,25080%
The Gloucester Fund Inc$316,000643%
YWCA Northeastern Massachusetts Inc$315,62472%
Young Men's Christian Association of Metro North Inc$313,75060%
Immigrant City Archives$308,494940%
Women's Money Matters Inc$304,000610%
Ocean River Institute Inc$303,000756%
North Shore Community Health Inc$300,83650%
Waldorf School at Moraine Farm Inc$290,400410%
Rian Immigrant Center Inc$290,00062%
City of Haverhill - Haverhill Public Schools$288,0122n/a
Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc$285,00073%
Project Adventure Inc$283,08235%
Merrimack Valley Planning Commission Regional Resource Center$282,0002n/a
Family Health Project Inc$273,83833%
Lazarus House Inc$273,06261%
Colleen E Ritzer Memorial Fund Inc$269,267320%
The Pettengill House Inc$266,77355%
Blessed Stephen Bellesini OSA Academy Inc$262,50076%
TEK Collaborative Inc$253,000345%
North Andover Historical Society$250,080282%
Tech Goes Home Incorporated$250,00032%
Act Lawrence Inc$246,750714%
Harvey Girls Inc$241,877535%
Earthjustice$240,00030%
Newburyport Maritime Society Inc$238,3011n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Lawrence Inc$237,54671%
Catie's Closet Inc$235,00032%
Si Se Puede Inc$234,831659%
Gloucester Lyceum and Sawyer Free Library Inc$234,50024%
Lawrence Catholic Academy of Lawrence Massachusetts Inc$230,0002n/a
Community Care Cooperative Inc$226,66010%
Nature Sacred$225,00034%
President and Trustees of Bates College$223,50090%
Beyond Soccer Inc$221,851917%
Salem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc$221,67661%
Andover Community Trust$216,0522n/a
Elevated Thought Inc$213,00087%
Town of Rockport$211,0002n/a
Alzheimer's Association Massachuse$209,3501n/a
New England Life Flight Inc$205,13210%
Issue One$205,00051%
Three Sisters Garden Project Inc$203,260621%
Salem Pantry Inc$200,00052%
Timanous Foundation$198,00083%
Rockport Music Inc$197,20061%
Andover Historical Society$195,844329%
Tle Center for Urban Entrepreneurship$195,000234%
Greater Lynn Senior Services Inc$194,95730%
Raw Art Works Inc$193,75072%
Habitat for Humanity International Inc$189,50020%
Essex Art Center Inc$189,08397%
VNA Care Network Inc$188,22190%
Greater Lawrence Community Boating Program Inc$181,00094%
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc$177,50070%
Essex County Community Organization$176,450611%
Families for Depression Awareness Inc$176,00097%
Shore Country Day School$175,00060%
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc$174,44670%
The Sharing Foundation$170,50075%
Sand Lake Baptist Church$163,0003n/a
Welcome Immigrant Network$162,2306n/a
St Mark's School of Southborough Inc$158,00020%
Lawrence Boys & Girls Club Inc$156,10752%
The Friends of the Middlesex Fells Reservation Inc$155,255610%
Merrimack River Watershed Council Inc$154,48266%
Our Neighbors' Table Inc$154,30442%
Centerboard Inc$152,30080%
Top Notch Scholars Inc$151,000323%
Providence Country Day School$150,50070%
Gloucester Education Foundation Inc$147,65059%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$147,00080%
Notre Dame Cristo Rey High School Inc$145,07080%
Bay State Community Services Inc$140,00010%
Straight Ahead Ministries INC$135,35132%
Building a Better Beverly Inc$135,000620%
Bread & Roses Inc$130,00064%
Green Beverly 107q Inc$129,180217%
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$127,35061%
The Latino Support Network Inc$125,500566%
Merrimack College$122,02630%
The Haven Project Inc$121,75044%
Boston Area Gleaners Inc$120,00022%
Phillips Exeter Academy$120,00060%
Rar-Ma Inc$120,00027%
The Urban Food Initiative Inc$120,00013%
University of Massachusetts Amherst Foundation Inc$114,08151%
The Moon Balloon Project Inc Building Healing Bridges$114,000450%
Environment America Research and Policy Center Inc$107,50033%
North Shore Alliance of Gay Lesbian Bisexual and Transgender Youth (Nagly)$105,500512%
Equal Justice Initiative$105,00050%
Fidelity House Inc$104,02620%
Young Women's Christian Association of Newburyport$103,47532%
Garrison Forest School Inc$101,50010%
The Sawyer Library Foundation Inc$101,500324%
Outreach Inc$100,00022%
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust$100,00018%
The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation$100,00013%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$100,0002n/a
Northwestern University$100,00020%
We Are Alx Inc$100,00016%
E a R L S Hope Rescue Inc$99,7926n/a
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center Inc$99,73977%
Gloucester Stage Company Inc$99,00053%
Express Yourself Inc$98,75062%
Essex County Habitat for Humanity Inc$96,59052%
Change Is Simple Inc$95,87066%
First Baptist Church$95,5003n/a
The Phoenix Charter Academy Foundation Inc$94,43525%
North End Music & Performing Arts Center$93,75033%
My Brother's Table Inc$93,28854%
Brookwood School Incorporated$93,00060%
University of Massachusetts Lowell$92,9752n/a
Rocky Neck Art Colony Inc$92,500429%
Cape Ann Animal Aid Associationinc$92,40042%
Justice Resource Institute Inc$92,00030%
The Gunston School Inc$91,00051%
Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc$89,50046%
South Shore Transformation Inc$88,95038%
Escuela Agricola Panamericana$88,00010%
Methuen Arlington Neighborhood Inc$88,000910%
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc$87,87560%
The Gloucester Adventureinc$87,00038%
The Notre Dame Education Center-Lawrence Inc$86,00043%
Share Our Strength$86,00060%
South Church in Andover$85,7005n/a
Community Servings Inc$85,00020%
Human Rights Watch Inc$85,00040%
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc$85,00021%
Parents Helping Parents - the Roundtable of Support Inc$85,00047%
Integrated Center for Group Medical Visits Inc$85,000157%
The United Church of Christ$81,1752n/a
Trustees of the Haverhill Public Library$80,66111%
National Network of Abortion Funds Inc$80,00030%
Seniorcare Inc$77,90030%
Harborlight Montessori School Inc$77,40031%
Mv Youth Inc$76,90031%
The Real Program Inc$75,989517%
The Food Project Inc$75,98041%
University of New Hampshire Foundation Incorporated$75,50360%
Bishop Feehan High School Inc$75,0003n/a
Equalsrq Inc$75,000144%
Blueprint North Carolina$75,00021%
Friends of Northshore Education Consortium$75,000113%
Wheaton College$75,00020%
Trustees of Tufts College$74,53960%
Gloucester Public Schools$73,7502n/a
Suenos Basketball$73,50068%
Partners in Child Development Inc$73,20030%
Manship Artist Residence and Studios Inc$72,325315%
Massachusetts Bail Fund$72,00053%
Prep for Prep$71,13130%
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill$70,0005n/a
Chica Inc$70,00035%
Toxics Action Center Inc$70,00043%
Protect Democracy Project$70,00020%
The Campaign Legal Center Inc$70,00020%
Open Hearts Ministries Inc$69,950342%
Trauma Intervention Program of Merrimack Valley Inc$68,127157%
One Mission Inc$66,80061%
Family Promise North Shore Boston Inc$66,75054%
Building Audacity$65,75022%
Common Cause Education Fund$65,57520%
Room to Grow National Inc$65,00050%
Partners in Development Incorporated$65,00043%
Moore Books Inc$65,0002n/a
Fair Count Inc$65,00031%
Rangrig Yeshe Inc$62,1004n/a
Friends of the North Andover Senior Center$61,2671n/a
Grace Center Inc$60,5002n/a
Columbia Land Conservancy Inc$60,00031%
Beyond Walls Inc$58,50028%
Merrimack Valley Dream Center Inc$58,250227%
Bridgewell Inc$57,50020%
Peabody Cultural Collaborative Inc$57,000365%
North Shore Elder Services Inc$56,00030%
Lynn Public Schools$55,5812n/a
Ateneo Dominicano De Nueva Inglaterra$55,300215%
Immigrant Family Services Institute Inc$55,20020%
The Ocean Foundation$55,00020%
Town of Bedford$55,0003n/a
Lysoa Inc$55,000213%
City of Peabody$55,0002n/a
Children's Hospital Corporation$54,50030%
Care Dimensions Inc$54,10040%
Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc$54,00031%
Northeastern University$53,69730%
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc$53,54431%
North Shore United Way Inc$53,5004n/a
University of Massachusetts$53,0001n/a
Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy$52,50070%
Acord Inc$51,70027%
Amirah Inc$51,25042%
Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc$51,00040%
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation$50,75040%
Bentley University$50,50010%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$50,30020%
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$50,00010%
Florida Rising Together Inc$50,00010%
Social Impact Partners Inc$50,00031%
Most Blessed Sacrament Parish$50,0001n/a
Center for Women & Enterprise Inc$50,00021%
Gloucester Cultural & Civic Center Inc$50,000159%
MACIR Inc$50,00016%
Nopi Inc$50,0001n/a
Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc$50,00021%
Vinfen Corporation$50,00010%
Mass Development Finance Agency$50,0001n/a
Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation$50,00070%
Foundation for Business Equity Inc$50,00015%
Cure Childhood Cancer Inc$50,00011%
Next Level Social Impact Partners Inc$50,000216%
Northeast Legal Aid Inc$50,00020%
St Lawrence University$48,75030%
Massachusetts Center for Native American Awareness Inc$48,50028%
Anna Jaques Hospital Inc$48,00030%
Emmaus Inc$48,00030%
Merrimack Valley Immigrant & Education Center Inc$47,000311%
Million Dollar Round Table Foundation$46,98031%
Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc$46,80051%
Project Home Again$46,500212%
Amesbury Carriage Museum Inc$46,449216%
Essex Historical Society and Shipbuilding Museum Inc$45,500314%
Youthserve Inc$45,00043%
Annisquam Yacht Club Sailing & Tennis Program Inc$45,000347%
Blue Deer Center$45,00027%
110 Inc$44,600212%
Providence College$43,01930%
Catholic Relief Services$42,0002n/a
Communities Together Inc$42,00066%
Fractured Atlas Inc$41,00020%
The Barton Center for Diabetes Education$40,1041n/a
Franconia Ski Club$40,00032%
Community Teamwork Inc$40,00020%
Friends of the Mad River$40,00064%
Walker Inc$40,00030%
Health Law Advocates Inc$40,00012%
Trevor Project Inc$40,00030%
Climate Xchange Education and Research Inc$40,00018%
Lake Forest Academy$40,00030%
Cold Hollow to Canada Incorporated$40,00068%
Semana Hispana En Lawrence Inc$39,800133%
El Instituto Cultural de Puerto Rico Inc$39,8001n/a
Latino Leadership Coalition Inc$38,5002n/a
World Central Kitchen Inc$38,20020%
Hamilton-Wenham Friends of the Arts Inc$37,3711n/a
Boston Dance Alliance Inc$37,00042%
First Congregational Society in Salem$37,0004n/a
Challenge Unlimited Inc$36,38030%
Salem Sound 2000 Inc$35,50024%
Beverly Historical Society$35,02926%
National Immigration Law Center$35,00020%
Democracy North Carolina$35,00020%
Reforest the Tropics Incorporated$35,00021%
Northeast Behavioral Health Corporation$35,00010%
Power Interfaith Inc$35,00021%
Spur Inc$34,50036%
Samaritans Inc$33,00020%
ACLU Foundation of Massachusetts Inc$33,00020%
Knights of Columbus Charities USA Inc$32,50020%
The Attic Youth Center$32,00031%
Special Olympics Inc$32,00020%
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Assn$32,00010%
The Doug Flutie Jr Foundation for Autism Inc$32,00022%
Community Giving Tree Inc$31,50023%
Science From Scientists Inc$31,50021%
Arise Rwanda Ministries Inc$31,34622%
Casa Mariposa Inc$31,0001n/a
Playworks Education Energized$31,00010%
Beverly Children's Learning Center Inc$30,93031%
Refugee & Immigrant Assistance Center$30,50020%
Companies for Causes$30,44621%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc$30,40020%
Robert F Kennedy Children's Action Corps Inc$30,00010%
Animal Rescue League of Boston$30,00030%
Oakland Museum of California$30,00030%
Children's Friend and Service$30,00030%
Sculpture in Open Spaces$30,0001n/a
Junior Achievement USA$30,00010%
Haverhill Public Schools$30,0001n/a
St Joseph School$30,0002n/a
Seaglass Village Inc$30,000162%
The DC Central Kitchen Inc$30,00030%
Crossroads for Kids Inc$30,00030%
Merrimack Valley Project Inc$30,000210%
Society for the Development of Arts$30,00012%
World Resources Institute$30,00030%
Friends of Beverly Recreation & Youth Services Inc$29,2663n/a
Newburyport Art Association Inc$29,00026%
The Pentucket Fine and Performing Arts Foundation$29,0001n/a
Acting Out Theater Company Inc$28,50033%
National Council of YMCAs of the USA$28,20530%
Neighborhood Development Associnc$28,00011%
Girls on the Run Greater Boston$28,00021%
Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf$27,91730%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$27,50030%
Foxcroft School$27,50010%
Franciscan Hospital for Children$27,40020%
The Home for Little Wanderers Inc$27,30020%
Aarons Presents Inc$27,20014%
Reproductive Equity Now Foundation Inc$27,00022%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$27,00010%
The Marion Institute Inc$27,00021%
Cape Ann Art Haven Inc$26,78935%
Front Row Foundation$26,66739%
Incarnation Parish$26,5001n/a
Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc$26,02212%
Moses Brown School$26,0001n/a
Cross Catholic Outreach Inc$26,0002n/a
Eastern Educational Resource Collaborative Inc$25,50027%
Northshore Education Consortium$25,0001n/a
Clara Martin Center Inc$25,00010%
For Kids Only Afterschool Inc$25,00010%
Clarendon Early Education Services Inc$25,00010%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$25,00010%
Arts Institute Group of the Merrimack Valley Inc$25,0001n/a
Beverly High School$25,0001n/a
Annisquam Association Inc$25,00016%
Tenacity Inc$25,00020%
LuminArtz$25,0002n/a
Southern Coalition for Social Justice$25,00010%
Southeast Land Trust of New Hampshire$25,00010%
RepresentUs Education Fund$25,00010%
Bishop Fenwick High School Inc$25,0002n/a
L'Arche Boston North Inc$25,00010%
Hitchcock Center for the Environment Inc$25,00013%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Sundance Institute$25,0001n/a
Artcouncil Inc Dba Artadia$25,00012%
Merrimack Valley Workforce Investment Board Inc$25,000117%
Imagine North Carolina First$25,0001n/a
Womens International Network for Guatemalan Solutions Inc$25,00013%
Safe Passage$25,00011%
Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc$24,54430%
Fort Point Arts Community Inc$24,000116%
Love Your Magic Inc$24,000121%
Proctor Academy$24,00020%
Music at Eden's Edge$24,0003n/a
Gloucester Celebration Corporation Co Robert J Gillis Jr$23,99821%
Pax Inc$23,60026%
Big Sister Association of Greater Boston Inc$23,50030%
North of Boston Library Exchange Inc$23,12511%
Clean River Project Inc$22,98018%
General Secretariat of the Franciscan Missions Inc$22,0001n/a
Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative Inc$22,00020%
Political Asylumimmigration Representation Project Inc$22,00021%
North Shore Health Project Inc$22,00022%
Squashbusters Inc$21,50020%
Green Mountain Horse Association Inc$21,50021%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Haverhill Inc$21,00021%
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc$21,00011%
Elevate New England Inc$21,00011%
Mabel Center for Immigrant Justice$21,00012%
Williams College$21,00010%
Compass Working Capital Inc$21,00011%
Creative Haverhill Inc$20,50033%
Lynn Shelter Association Inc$20,50020%
The George Washington University$20,25020%
Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc$20,00011%
Lowell Public Schools$20,0002n/a
Centerville Improvement Society$20,0001n/a
The Samaritans Inc$20,000143%
Roca Inc$20,00020%
Habitat for Humanity Greater Boston Inc$20,00020%
Menhealing$20,00026%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$20,00020%
Fcp Inc$20,00020%
Power of Self Education Pose Inc$20,0001n/a
Congregational Church of Topsfield$20,0001n/a
Trivium Life Services$20,00010%
River Valley Arts Collective Inc$20,0001n/a
Blueskies Wellness Inc$20,00022%
Friends of the Beverly Public Library$20,000122%
Vermont Natural Resources Council Inc$20,00030%
Cultura Latina Dance Academy Incorporated$20,0001n/a
Kite's Nest Inc$20,0001n/a
Children's Center of the Faith United Methodist Church$19,50031%
Essex County Trail Association Inc$19,50024%
Sustainable Cape-Center for Agricultural Preservation and Educa$19,50024%
Vermont Land Trust Inc$19,00010%
Rozalia Project$19,00034%
Rolling Ridge Retreat And$19,0001n/a
Northern Essex Community College Professional Association$18,5641n/a
Irise Dance Project Inc$18,500264%
Environmental League of Massachusetts Inc$18,50021%
Lasell University$18,35020%
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$18,00010%
Project STEP Inc$18,00021%
The Salvation Army World Service Office$18,00010%
MAP International Inc$18,00020%
United States Fund for Unicef$17,99620%
Refugee Protection International Inc$17,80013%
Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc$17,74510%
412 Inc$17,60027%
Casting for Recovery$17,50011%
Lynn Music Foundation Inc$17,50014%
Arise Rwanda Ministries USA Inc$17,50012%
Rosie's Place Inc$17,50020%
Michael J Dias Foundation Inc$17,40031%
Swampscott Tides Inc$17,0731n/a
Haley House Inc & Affiliates$17,00020%
Sail Salem Inc$17,00026%
Beverly Rotary Club Foundation Inc$16,050117%
Town of Danvers$16,0001n/a
Greening Haiti Fund$16,0002n/a
Day Dreaming Organization Inc$16,000214%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$16,00020%
Pomona College$16,00010%
Day 1 Bags$16,00021%
826 Boston Inc$16,00020%
Let's Get Ready Inc$16,00020%
Carroll County Humane Society$15,85021%
Ipswich Museum Inc$15,75019%
Simmons University$15,55020%
Urban Village Montessori Inc dba Marigold Montessori$15,00014%
Bard College$15,00010%
Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc$15,00011%
The Jordan Porco Foundation$15,00013%
Boston Medical Center Corporation$15,00010%
Syracuse University$15,00010%
Lynn Housing Authority Development Group Inc$15,00012%
Salem Community Gardens Inc$15,000160%
Duke University$15,00010%
The Latino Coalition of Haverhill Massachusetts Inc$15,000152%
Ps 21 Inc$15,0001n/a
Peer Health Exchange Inc$15,00010%
Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action Inc$15,0001n/a
Aspire Developmental Services Inc$15,00010%
Rise Above Foundation Inc$15,00013%
Marblehead Boosters Club Incorporated$15,000112%
Summits Education$15,00010%
St Peter's Fiesta Inc$15,000137%
Andover Senior Community Friends Inc$15,00017%
Newhall Fields Community Farm Inc$14,95019%
Worcester Polytechnic Institute$14,50020%
Teach for America Inc$14,50020%
How House Inc$14,40026%
Needymeds Inc$14,00011%
Holy Family Mission Inc$14,00028%
Barr Foundation$13,97810%
Triangle Inc$13,50010%
Candles Flame Inc$13,2301n/a
Trustees of Boston College$13,10010%
Trinity College$13,10020%
The Community House Inc$13,00011%
Lynnfield Substance Abuse Prevention Coalition Inc$13,0001n/a
Positive Exposure Productions Inc$12,80021%
North Shore Latino Business Center Inc$12,50019%
Archdiocese of Boston Department of Education$12,3751n/a
Merrimack Valley Spartans Football and Cheerlead$12,20029%
Bagly Inc$12,00010%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$12,0001n/a
McPhs University$12,00010%
The Samaritans on Cape Cod$12,00011%
Higgins Lake Land Conservancy$12,0002n/a
Bucknell University$12,00010%
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research$12,00020%
Marblehead News Group Inc$11,5001n/a
World Aid Runners$11,333114%
Prospect House Haverhill Sober Living In$11,2001n/a
Dignity Matters Inc$11,18420%
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$11,10010%
Camp Sunshine at Sebago Lake Inc$11,00010%
Manchester-By-The-Sea Museum Inc$11,00028%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$11,00010%
Friends of the Park on Elm Street Inc$11,0001n/a
Oxfam-America Inc$11,00010%
Pedro Martinez Foundation$10,80021%
Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association$10,75014%
Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc$10,50010%
Npr Foundation$10,50010%
Assumption University$10,5001n/a
Victoria's Victory Foundation$10,50010%
All Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc$10,50010%
Turning Point USA Inc$10,50010%
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute$10,50010%
Bread and Roses Heritage Committee Inc$10,500128%
Winchester Committee for A Better Chance$10,00013%
John & Anna Newton Porter Foundation$10,00011%
The City School Inc$10,0001n/a
First Congregational Church of Essex$10,0001n/a
Developmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities Inc$10,00010%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc$10,00010%
Tower School in Marblehead Inc$10,00010%
Black Lives Matter Foundation$10,00014%
Lowell Transitional Living Center Inc$10,00011%
Unitarian Universalist Society of Rockport$10,0001n/a
St John Community Foundation$10,0001n/a
Midcoast Conservancy$10,00010%
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People$10,0001n/a
Mount Washington Observatory$10,00010%
Western Wind Vocal Ensemble Inc$10,00014%
United Way of Greater Houston$10,00010%
Adopt a Student Foundation$10,00010%
Town of Salisbury Dept of Planning and Development$10,0001n/a
Rehearsal for Life Inc$10,00011%
Sail Newport$10,00011%
152 Commonwealth Foundation Inc$10,00012%
New Georgia Project Inc$10,00011%
St Stephen's Episcopal Church$10,0001n/a
The College of Wooster$10,00010%
Unc Health Foundation Inc$10,00010%
Small Things Inc$10,00010%
Committee of Seventy$10,00010%
The Trustees of Princeton University$10,00010%
Chinmaya Mission of Boston$10,0001n/a
Power of Place Learning Communities$10,00011%
College for Every Student Inc$10,00011%
Mary and John Elliot Charitable Foundation$10,00010%
Sanctuary for Families Inc$10,00010%
The Dennis Conservation Land Trust$10,0001n/a
Family & Children's Service of Greater Lynn Inc$10,00011%
Delamano$10,0001n/a
Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy Coalition Inc$10,00010%
Spectrum Health Systems Inc$10,00010%
Cambridge Community Foundation$10,0001n/a
The Hammond Museum Inc$10,0001n/a
The Armand Hammer United World College of the Amer$10,00010%
Food Bank for New York City$10,00010%
The Laundromat Project Inc$10,0001n/a
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc$10,00010%
Caring for Friends$10,00010%
University of Miami$10,00010%
Centro de Apoyo Familiar$10,00012%
Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region Inc$10,00010%
The Lowell General Hospital$10,00010%
Brooks School$10,00010%
Art Resource Collaborative for Kids (Arck) Incorporated$10,00012%
The Bail Project Inc$10,00010%
Art Omi Inc$10,0001n/a
Every Org$10,00010%
Gloucester Boxing Inc$10,0001n/a
Gloucester Fishermen Athletic Association Inc$10,00015%
Kipp Massachusetts Inc$10,00011%
Junior Achievement of Greater Boston Inc$10,00010%
Steppingstone Foundation Inc$10,00010%
ACLU Foundation of Texas Inc$10,00010%
Scholarship America Inc$10,0001n/a
Make The Road States Inc$10,00010%
Philadelphia Vip Inc$10,00010%
American Civil Liberties Foundation of Pennsylvania Inc$10,00010%
October as Italian Heritage Month Committee Inc$10,0001n/a
The Boston Police Foundation Inc$10,0001n/a
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Eastern Massachusetts Inc$10,00010%
The North East Educational and Developmental Supports Center Inc$10,00010%
The Altamont School$10,00010%
Greater Lowell Childrens Fund Inc$10,0001n/a
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative$10,00010%
St Johns Church$10,0001n/a
Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc$10,00010%
New Rochelle Young Men's Christian Association Inc$10,00011%
The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc$10,00010%
United Way of Central Alabama Inc$10,00010%
Appalachian Mountain Club$10,00010%
Shaker Museum and Library$10,0001n/a
La Vida Inc$10,00011%
Skull Games$10,00011%
Alliance of Climate and Environmental Stewards Inc$10,0001n/a
Hispanic Federation Inc$10,00010%
International Justice Mission$9,96010%
Regis College$9,50010%
Malley Farm for Women$9,20019%
Children Law Center of Massachusetts Inc$9,00011%
Trout Unlimited Inc$9,00010%
University of New England$9,00010%
Mercy Ships International$9,00010%
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc$8,95010%
Middlesex Community College Foundation C/O Jackson Chege$8,60012%
Arpeggione Ensemble Inc$8,500111%
Emmanuel College$8,30010%
WGBH Educational Foundation$8,16510%
Proprietors of St Pauls Episcopal Church$8,0871n/a
University of California Santa Barbara$8,0341n/a
Razom Inc$8,00010%
Catholic Charitable Bureau of the Archdiocese of Boston Inc$8,00010%
Jean Appolon Expressions Inc$8,00012%
Good Hope Inc$8,00018%
St Mary Star of the Sea Basilica$8,0001n/a
Experience Camps$8,00010%
The Cornerstone Creative Inc$8,000110%
Black Biz Dev Inc$8,0001n/a
Towngreen Inc$8,0001n/a
Bay State Reading Institute Inc Dba Momenta$8,00011%
Ministerio Los Milagros de Jesus Inc$8,0001n/a
Downeast Salmon Federation$8,00010%
Wings of Strength Sober Living (Insight Recovery Homes)$7,8001n/a
Jewish Community Center of the North Shore Inc$7,72310%
Voter Choice Education Fund Inc$7,60013%
Dickinson College$7,50010%
Bryant University$7,50010%
Riverside Parent Advisory Council$7,500118%
Fosteringcare Inc$7,5001n/a
North Andover Merchant Association$7,5001n/a
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc$7,5001n/a
Camp Fire$7,50010%
The Epiphany School Inc$7,50010%
826NYC Inc$7,50011%
Beantown Baby Diaper Bank$7,5001n/a
Friends of the Danvers Committee for Diversity Inc$7,5001n/a
Ellie Fund Inc$7,50010%
Saint Anselm College$7,25010%
Sweet Paws Rescue Inc$7,00010%
Essential Partners Inc$7,0001n/a
Berea College$7,00010%
American Life League Inc$7,00010%
Greenpeace Fund Inc$7,0001n/a
Sea-Run Brook Trout Coalition Corp$7,000127%
The Center for Independent Documentary Inc$7,00010%
St Boniface Haiti Foundation Inc$7,00010%
Third Sector New England Inc$7,00010%
Danvers Community Council Inc$7,00012%
PTA Massachusetts Parent-Teacher Association Inc$6,7501n/a
Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc$6,75010%
The Musary Jrp Inc$6,60019%
President and Fellows of Middlebury College$6,50010%
S M a Fathers Inc$6,5001n/a
Knights of Columbus Charities Inc$6,50010%
City of Beverly$6,4801n/a
Wide Horizons for Children Inc$6,40010%
Noble and Greenough School$6,0001n/a
Asian Pacific Childrens Fund$6,00011%
Wenham Historical Association & Museum Inc$6,00010%
Judicial Watch Inc$6,00010%
Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc$6,00010%
Friends of Lawrence Heritage State Park$6,000119%
Save The Children Federation Inc$6,00010%
University of San Francisco$6,00010%
Friends of the Lawrence Public Library Inc$6,0001n/a
Save Chebacco Trails & Watershed Inc$6,000113%
Intercessors for America Inc$6,0001n/a
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$6,00010%
The Claddagh Fund Charities Inc$6,0001n/a
Norwell Visiting Nurse Association Inc$6,00010%
Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc$6,00010%
Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception of the Bvm$6,0001n/a
St Johns Church Episcopal$6,0001n/a
Global Initiatives Inc$6,000134%
American Friends Service Committee$6,0001n/a
North Shore Juneteenth Association Inc$5,5741n/a
Pine Street Inn Inc$5,50010%
Trustees of Clark University$5,50010%
Woodstock Area Mountain Bike Association$5,5001n/a
University of Hartford$5,50010%
Stonehill College Inc$5,50010%
The Andover Choral Society Inc$5,500110%
Rockport Art Association$5,50011%
Stephen Siller Tunnel to Towers Foundation$5,50010%
Middlesex School$5,25010%
Jewish Family Service of Metrowest Inc$5,25010%
Manasota-Solve Inc$5,10010%
Seaside Sustainability Inc$5,1001n/a
Andover Committee For A Better Chance$5,05012%

Plus 49 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.0M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Essex County Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 41 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGreater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc: $11,109,533 over 9y, 27% of budgetGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $4,573,985 over 9y, 98% of budgetLawrence Partnership Inc: $3,769,815 over 7y, 75% of budgetNectar Community Investments Inc: $3,367,207 over 6y, 16% of budgetThe Evelyn Lilly Lutz Foundation: $2,581,137 over 7y, 66% of budgetCommunity Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc: $2,557,389 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetRoot Ns Inc: $2,156,229 over 9y, 28% of budgetNorth Shore Community College Foundation Inc: $1,656,525 over 8y, 48% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,460,370 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLeo Inc: $1,333,609 over 8y, 5.3% of budgetEssex North Shore Agricultural Technical Foundation Inc: $1,309,626 over 5y, 67% of budgetMass General Brigham Incorporated: $1,278,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAction Inc: $1,098,191 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetLawrence Communityworks Inc: $1,092,018 over 9y, 5.3% of budgetCabot Performing Arts Center Inc: $1,091,250 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetWellspring House Inc: $1,070,027 over 8y, 6.5% of budgetThe Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc: $1,065,662 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetCommunity Action Inc: $1,001,137 over 7y, 2.4% of budgetNorth Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc: $948,500 over 6y, 48% of budgetNortheast Arc Inc: $942,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetYMCA of the North Shore Inc: $942,017 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetEntrepreneurship for All Inc: $908,343 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetPeabody Essex Museum Inc: $869,840 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPathways for Childreninc: $731,169 over 9y, 2.1% of budgetFamily Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc: $728,005 over 9y, 2.7% of budgetNorth Shore Community Action Programs Inc: $718,117 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYouth Development Organization Inc: $703,150 over 9y, 14% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $695,250 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCape Ann Museum Inc: $690,246 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetLEADS Inc: $675,500 over 4y, 29% of budgetMuseum of Fine Arts: $590,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pingree School Inc: $587,200 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetNorth Shore Community Development Coalit: $562,550 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetGreater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc: $561,044 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated: $535,833 over 7y, 6.9% of budgetCitizens Inn Inc: $528,582 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetEsperanza Academy Inc: $524,301 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetJohn Ashford Link House: $490,250 over 3y, 9.7% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $486,043 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetAgespan Inc: $479,545 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetIpswich River Watershed Association: $467,716 over 9y, 2.2% of budgetJeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: $464,452 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetMerrimack Valley Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $439,029 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetEndicott College: $430,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetNortheast Hospital Corporation: $428,410 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence Family Development Inc: $425,676 over 9y, 2.9% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $418,761 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $415,312 over 8y, 3.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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 Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation IncMA168× affinity108 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Foundation · Van Otterloo Family 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.

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About Essex County Community Foundation

How much does Essex County Community Foundation give?
Essex County Community Foundation reported 302 itemized grants totaling $12,966,342, out of $14,415,399 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 111 and 292 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Essex County Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Community Improvement (22%), Education (15%), Health (13%).
Who are Essex County Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc ($11M), Groundwork Lawrence Inc ($4.6M), Lawrence Partnership Inc ($3.8M).
Does Essex County Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Essex County Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Essex County Community Foundation based?
Essex County Community Foundation is based in Danvers, MA.

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 797 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024 (period ending 2025-06-30), released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object 202503379349301450 · view filing · www.eccf.org

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