How much did Essex County Community Foundation grant in FY2025?

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.

Where is Essex County Community Foundation based?

Essex County Community Foundation is based in Danvers, MA.

Essex County Community Foundation

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Danvers, MA · Community foundation

Essex County Community Foundation

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$14M

Granted FY2025still arriving

302

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$576k

Largest

01What you fund

01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

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

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2025 · 302 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 302 grants below total $12,966,342 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $14,415,399 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,449,057 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

Grant-size mix · FY2016–FY2024

FY16

40%

33%

21%

$4.1M

FY17

24%

51%

23%

$5.7M

FY18

13%

17%

68%

$19.5M

FY20

19%

40%

39%

$14.5M

FY21

24%

55%

17%

$13.1M

FY22

18%

56%

24%

$17.5M

FY23

22%

42%

34%

$14.9M

FY24

25%

52%

20%

$13.0M

Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2016, 21% of your dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024 that was 20%. Each year’s bar is its own 100%, so the bands show the mix, not the total.

$16,500

Median grant

States reached

$151M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
ROOT NS INC	$576,250
CITY OF SALEM	$561,569
THE COMMUNITY GROUP INC	$409,393
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$382,200
WELLSPRING HOUSE INC	$314,500
CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC	$308,896
GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC	$246,852
GROUNDWORK LAWRENCE	$246,193
LEADS INC	$228,000
BOSTON MEDFLIGHT	$205,132
BOSTON UNIVERSITY	$200,000
ANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST	$182,052
ESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL & TECHNICAL SCHOOL	$181,046
HARVEY GIRLS INC	$170,877
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM	$158,500

02The need

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 (FY17–25, $10.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

Which US states your grants reach

The hardship those neighborhoods carry, beyond income:

Adults without health insurance:reaches 27.9% in some neighborhoods (typically 4.3%)(CDC, modeled)
Food access:15 of 162 neighborhoods are USDA-designated food deserts(USDA, 2019)

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

The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t

You back the full breadth of your community — and the organisations you fund hold up better than the rest.

As a community foundation you fund inclusively across the local sector — established institutions and scrappy new efforts alike — which is the mission, not a hedge. Even so, the organisations you back are less fragile than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund.

The kind of organization you back

58% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 26% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. The ones you pick show fewer of the warning signs below than the field you don’t fund.

What they work on

Human Services15% vs 9%
Arts & Culture14% vs 10%
Community Improvement6% vs 2%
Environment6% vs 2%

The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Recreation & Sports, Religion.

How they hold up

Run recurring deficits32% vs 41%
Burning through reserves12% vs 18%
Lean on a single income source45% vs 38%

you fund (199) you don’t (901)· share of each group

You fund (199)You don’t (901)

Median size (revenue)$1.1M$211k

Operating margin5%4%

Financially fragile65%67%

Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof — the funder enables, it does not solely cause.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$109M · 412 repeat orgs$7.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

412 repeat relationships — 213 still active in FY2025, 199 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

Of your 385 multi-year relationships, 94 repeat the same amount every year (7% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

412

289

Total granted

$109M

$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+15%

Still filing today

86%

73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentYouth 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

GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +52% · 27% of their budget
Groundwork Lawrence Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $4.6M · revenue +115% · 98% of their budget
LP
Lawrence Partnership Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $3.8M · revenue +79% · 75% of their budget

Funded once

LP
LYNN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2018 · $247k
NM
Newburyport Maritime Society Incgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $238k · revenue +242%
Founded in 1969, the Newburyport Maritime Society has steadily deepened its stewardship of the Custom House Maritime Museum, and recent years have brought a visible inflection point: the opening of a community-supported Discovery Center, a new paid internship endowment, and attendance tracking toward a historic doubling.
COMMUNITY CARE COOPERATIVE INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $227k · revenue +71%

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

Activities, outputs, outcomes

Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.

Of 54 organizations, 2 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

Read from 54 of the 235 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.

case studies

Two relationships, up close

One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.

Immigrant City Archives

Conviction

Sustained bet on a compounding mission

Essex County Community Foundation backed Immigrant City Archives eight times between 2017 and 2025, committing $291,994 and at peak representing 40% of the organization's budget. Alongside that sustained relationship, the Lawrence History Center's revenue grew 134% and net assets 2.4x, with FY2023 actuals of $432,738 far exceeding its approved $217,500 operating budget. Founded in 1978 to preserve Lawrence's immigrant heritage, the organization has since preserved the Essex Company Offices & Yard — a National Register of Historic Places site — expanded digital access to its collections, and grew its Facebook following from 3,545 to 12,643 between 2020 and 2023, though a single-source income concentration warrants continued attention to diversification.

9× · 2017–2025

Funded

$308k

You committed

40%

Peak share of budget

+134%

Their revenue since

Newburyport Maritime Society Inc

Funded once · graduated

One bold grant, enduring momentum

Essex County Community Foundation made a single grant of $238,301 to Newburyport Maritime Society in 2017 — at the time representing 111% of the organization's budget — and the Custom House Maritime Museum has continued to grow on its own since. Revenue rose 61% from the time of that first grant, and net assets expanded 2.7x over the filing period, with the organization recently unveiling a new children's Discovery Center to a standing-room-only crowd and launching a paid internship program through the newly established Kevin J. MacDonald Endowment Fund. Recurring deficits remain a watchpoint, but the museum's deepening community investment suggests a foundation that took an early, decisive swing.

When you stepped in · 2017

$216k

their revenue

once

Latest filing · 2024

$738k+243%

grown on its own, no further grants

2023 · what they did next

Operated the Custom House Maritime Museum with a collection of historic maritime artifacts.

projects.propublica.org

Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.

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.

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education

Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment

Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter

Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education

Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education

University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…

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Laboure College of Healthcare Inc

Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Nature Sacred. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%8/748

the rest of the field

11%

4,708/41,610

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.

05the grantee network

662 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 662 of the 797 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

163

Early backer (in before they grew)

648/662

Grantees still filing

458/662

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$50,957,747Community Improvement$11,974,667Education$11,391,169Human Services$11,278,496Health$7,790,701Housing & Shelter$5,418,693Philanthropy$4,818,901

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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.

48 internal · 9 shared anchors

Your portfolio is already a network

The Evelyn Lilly Lutz Foundation partnered with ECCF and other funders to award nearly $600,000 in collaborative Behavioral Health Partnership Grants. It’s one of 48 direct ties among 78 of your grantees, who also cluster around 9 shared regional anchors.

Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.

Grantees connected

Grantee↔grantee ties

Shared anchors (2+ grantees)

179

External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center

min. connectionstheme43 shown · 25 ties

grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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explicit Coalition
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explicit Funding
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explicit Funding
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explicit Coalition
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explicit Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

3 grantees
3 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees
2 grantees

Joint program 141Affiliation 32Coalition 32Funding 11Referral network 6Shared facility 3Fiscal sponsorship 2

Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organisation websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organisations.

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.

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

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 Essex County Community 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

Community Care Cooperative Inc — 100% of income from government
Lawrence Family Development Inc — 100% of income from government
Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
Bay State Community Services Inc — 76% of income from government
Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
Ipswich River Watershed Association — 68% of income from government
Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
Community Action Inc — 52% of income from government
Tle Center for Urban Entrepreneurship — 49% of income from government
Justice Resource Institute Inc — 48% of income from government
Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
Act Lawrence Inc — 44% of income from government
North Shore Community Health Inc — 43% of income from government
Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
Lynn Community Health Inc — 31% of income from government
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
Straight Ahead Ministries Inc — 27% of income from government
Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
John Ashford Link House — 25% of income from government
Centerboard Inc — 23% of income from government
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
Boston Area Gleaners Inc — 20% of income from government
Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
Police Assisted Addiction and Recovery Initiative Inc — 16% of income from government
Essex County Community Organization — 15% of income from government
Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
Harvey Girls Inc — 13% of income from government
Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
New American Association of Massachusetts Inc — 12% of income from government
North Shore Community Action Programs Inc — 12% of income from government
Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
Nectar Community Investments Inc — 12% of income from government
Yale University — 12% of income from government
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
Community Day Care Center of Lawrence Inc — 11% of income from government
Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
Lawrence Communityworks Inc — 9% of income from government
Families for Depression Awareness Inc — 8% of income from government
Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
Beyond Soccer Inc — 7% of income from government
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
Northeast Hospital Corporation — 5% of income from government
New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
Ywca Northeastern Massachusetts Inc — 5% of income from government
Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
Youth Development Organization Inc — 4% of income from government
Newburyport Maritime Society Inc — 4% of income from government
Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
Montserrat College of Art Inc — 3% of income from government
Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
North Shore Worker's Community Fund Inc — 3% of income from government
Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
Babson College — 3% of income from government
Action Inc — 3% of income from government
Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
Entrepreneurship for All Inc — 2% of income from government
Immigrant City Archives — 1% of income from government
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
Rocky Neck Art Colony Inc — 1% of income from government
Project Adventure Inc — 1% of income from government
Endicott College — 1% of income from government
Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
Women's Money Matters Inc — 1% of income from government
Green Beverly 107Q Inc — 1% of income from government
Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
Cape Ann Animal Aid Associationinc — 0% of income from government
North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
Milton Academy — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

51get no government money at all

36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

11rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home