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Essex County Community Foundation

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$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
302
Grants FY2025still arriving
20
States reached
$576k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 302 grants below total $12,966,342, the rows itemized in this filing. The $14,415,399 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,449,057 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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 its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2024, 20%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$16,500
Median grant
20
States reached
$151M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
04

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $137k → 5%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $115k → 12%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VA: $81k → 4%OUR NEIGHBOR'S TABLE: $90k → 7%AGESPAN: $98k → 15%PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE: $87k → 13%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $151k → 11%ACTION INC: $227k → 11%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $104k → 11%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $141k → 11%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $185k → 32%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $315k → 11%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND INC DBA NEW LYNN COALITION: $120k → 32%ACTION INC: $71k → 11%HARVEY GIRLS INC: $171k → 8%AGESPAN: $88k → 15%ELDER SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VAL: $193k → 15%LYNN ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INC: $344k → 32%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND INC DBA NEW LYNN COALITION: $144k → 32%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $186k → 32%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $132k → 11%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $94k → 30%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $147k → 5%YMCA NORTH SHORE - GLEN T MACLEOD: $75k → 11%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $91k → 11%PETTENGILL HOUSE: $155k → 7%LIFEBRIDGE NORTH SHORE: $148k → 13%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $130k → 11%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $75k → 12%YMCA OF METRO NORTH: $103k → 7%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $156k → 11%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $160k → 11%CATIE'S CLOSET INC: $177k → 5%JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER: $123k → 5%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY: $158k → 30%LEO INC: $127k → 32%WAYSTONE HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES: $91k → 15%YMCA OF METRO NORTH: $70k → 7%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $107k → 11%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $100k → 11%ACTION INC: $203k → 11%NORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $221k → 32%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN INC: $71k → 11%LAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $182k → 19%WELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $137k → 11%ACTION INC: $120k → 11%FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VA: $231k → 30%YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $125k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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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)
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$109M · 412 repeat orgs$7.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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 its 385 multi-year relationships, 94 repeat the same amount every year (7% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

412
289

Total granted

$109M
$6.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+16%

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.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $11M · revenue +54% · 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%
How this is measured

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

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

they say it reaches here……few show it gets hereELEVATED THOUGHT INCTOP NOTCH SCHOLARS INCLEAP FOR EDUCATION INCGLOUCESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATIONFRIENDS OF NORTHSHORE EDUCATION CONESPERANZA ACADEMY INCRAR-MA INCCOLLEEN E RITZER MEMORIAL FUND INCLEADS INCMALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOLIMMIGRANT CITY ARCHIVES INCNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATIONEducation0/12 flowerJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTERNORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUNDWELLSPRING HOUSE INCFAMILIES FOR DEPRESSION AWARENESSRIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INCMERRIMACK VALLEY DREAM CENTER INCMASSACHUSETTS BAIL FUND INCPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENLEO INCPETTENGILL HOUSEHuman Services0/10 flowerNEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INCLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INCFAIR COUNT INCBEYOND WALLS INCACT LAWRENCEESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONDUDLEY STREET NEIGHBORHOOD INITIATIVE INCGROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INCMETHUEN ARLINGTON NEIGHBORHOOD INCCOMMUNITY ACTION INCBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICCommunity Improvement1/12 flowerROCKPORT MUSICNORTH ANDOVER HISTORICAL SOCIETYMASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AWARENESS INCESSEX ART CENTEREXPRESS YOURSELFNORTH END MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS CENTER (NEMPAC)NEWBURYPORT MARITIME SOCIETY INCCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INCESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND SHIPBUILDING MUSEUM INCCAPE ANN MUSEUM INCArts & Culture0/10 flowerGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INCFAMILY HEALTH PROJECTEQUALSRQ INCSAMARITANS INCCASTING FOR RECOVERY INCONE MISSION INCJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE INCNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH INCLAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITALFRANCISCAN HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN INHealth1/10 flower

Of 54 organizations, 2 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

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

How this is measured
Read from 54 of the 235 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.
case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

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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.

9× · 2017–2025
Funded
$308k
Granted in total
40%
Peak share of budget
+134%
Their revenue since
NM

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.

At first grant · 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.

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How this is measured
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. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.
04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
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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2
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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3
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
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
10
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
11
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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12
Massachusetts Taxpayers Foundation Inc

Massachusetts taxpayers foundation provides public & private sector decision makers with accurate, timely, unbiased research & constructive solutions that drive public policy in order to strengthen the state's finances & position the…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

41
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
162
Early backer (in before they grew)
648/662
Grantees still filing
455/662
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $11,109,533 · OtherGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INCCOMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC: $2,557,389 · OtherCITY OF SALEM: $2,459,792 · OtherROOT NS INC: $2,156,229 · Other+98 more: $32,674,804 · Other+98 moreGroundwork Lawrence Inc: $4,573,985 · Community ImprovementGroundwork La…Lawrence Partnership Inc: $3,769,815 · Community ImprovementLawrence Part…Community Action Inc: $1,001,137 · Community ImprovementCommunity Act…ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $908,343 · Community ImprovementENTREPRENEURS…BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $415,312 · Community ImprovementNEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $401,136 · Community Improvement+5 more: $904,939 · Community Improvement+5 moreNorth Shore Community College Foundation Inc: $1,656,525 · EducationNorth Shore …President and Fellows of Harvard College: $782,250 · EducationPresident an…Montserrat College Of Art Inc: $695,250 · EducationMontserrat C…LEADS Inc: $675,500 · EducationLEADS IncTHE PINGREE SCHOOL INC: $587,200 · EducationESPERANZA ACADEMY INC: $524,301 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE: $430,100 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY: $408,550 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE: $390,000 · Education+26 more: $5,241,493 · Education+26 moreLEO INC: $1,333,609 · Human ServicesLEO INCACTION INC: $1,098,191 · Human ServicesACTION INCWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $1,070,027 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING H…NORTH SHORE WORKER'S COMMUNITY FUND INC: $948,500 · Human ServicesNORTH SHORE …YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $942,017 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE …PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $731,169 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR…FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC: $728,005 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVI…AGESPAN INC: $479,545 · Human ServicesJEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC: $464,452 · Human ServicesLAWRENCE FAMILY DEVELOPMENT INC: $425,676 · Human ServicesTHE SALEM MISSION INC: $383,250 · Human Services+12 more: $2,674,055 · Human Services+12 moreALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $1,460,370 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $1,278,600 · HealthTUFTS MEDICAL CENTER PARENT INC: $756,000 · HealthGREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC: $561,044 · HealthJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE: $490,250 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $486,043 · HealthNORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $428,410 · HealthELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $407,547 · HealthLawrence General Hospital: $398,500 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $329,250 · HealthNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY HEALTH INC: $300,836 · HealthFAMILY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $273,838 · Health+3 more: $620,013 · HealthNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $3,367,207 · Housing & ShelterNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT: $562,550 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS INN INC: $528,582 · Housing & ShelterHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $374,650 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $273,062 · Housing & ShelterANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST: $216,052 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $96,590 · Housing & ShelterTHE EVELYN LILLY LUTZ FOUNDATION: $2,581,137 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $926,892 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $544,872 · PhilanthropyTHE GLOUCESTER FUND INC: $316,000 · PhilanthropyNATURE SACRED: $225,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $225,000 · Philanthropy
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 the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their 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 budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $926,892 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC: $908,343 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $869,840 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $782,250 over 8y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF HERKIMER AND ONEIDA COUNTIES INC: $544,872 over 6y, 3.2% 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 budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds Groundwork Lawrence Inc ↗
  • Who funds Lawrence Partnership Inc ↗
  • Who funds NECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVELYN LILLY LUTZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY DAY CARE CENTER OF LAWRENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
  • Who funds North Shore Community College Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds LEO INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX NORTH SHORE AGRICULTURAL TECHNICAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds LAWRENCE COMMUNITYWORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Action Inc ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE WORKER'S COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
  • Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds ENTREPRENEURSHIP FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY ACTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Montserrat College Of Art Inc ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds LEADS Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
48 internal · 9 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

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

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

78
Grantees connected
48
Grantee↔grantee ties
9
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
179
External links

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

43 shown · 25 ties
MALDEN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $550k granted · 7 linksBACKYARD GROWERS: $363k granted · 3 linksNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTMENTS INC: $1.5M granted · 3 linksNECTAR COMMUNITY INVESTME…LEADS INC: $676k granted · 6 linksMANSHIP ARTIST RESIDENCE AND STUDIOS INC: $72k granted · 4 linksELEVATED THOUGHT INC: $207k granted · 7 linksGLOUCESTER EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $126k granted · 4 linksPROJECT ADVENTURE: $283k granted · 3 linksESSEX ART CENTER: $167k granted · 5 linksROOT NS INC: $2.0M granted · 5 linksROOT NS INCGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION C: $11M granted · 7 linksGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNIT…SAWYER FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $102k granted · 8 linksGREEN BEVERLY: $129k granted · 6 linksGLOUCESTER FUND INC: $291k granted · 7 linksWELLSPRING HOUSE INC: $957k granted · 3 linksCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $812k granted · 14 linksTHREE SISTERS GARDEN PROJECT INC: $190k granted · 4 linksESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $153k granted · 11 linksTEK COLLABORATIVE: $253k granted · 6 linksNEW AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $391k granted · 4 linksNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $1.2M granted · 9 linksCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $627k granted · 14 linksNORTH SHORE WORKERS COMMUNITY FUND: $857k granted · 3 linksPOLICE ASSISTED ADDICTION AND RECOVERY INITIATIVE INC: $320k granted · 4 linksPETTENGILL HOUSE: $252k granted · 4 linksBEYOND WALLS INC: $59k granted · 4 linksGROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INC: $4.1M granted · 6 linksGROUNDWORK LAWRENCE INCLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIP: $1.4M granted · 5 linksLAWRENCE PARTNERSHIPJOHN ASHFORD LINK HOUSE INC: $250k granted · 3 linksCLIMATE XCHANGE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH INC: $40k granted · 4 linksNEIGHBORS IN NEED: $278k granted · 3 linksEVELYN LILLY LUTZ FOUNDATION: $1.8M granted · 5 linksEVELYN LILLY LUTZ FOUNDAT…SELF ESTEEM BOSTON EDUCATION INSTITUTE INC: $90k granted · 3 linksLAWRENCE COMMUNITY WORKS INC: $1.1M granted · 5 linksROCKY NECK ART COLONY INC: $36k granted · 5 linksMASSACHUSETTS CENTER FOR NATIVE AMERICAN AWARENESS INC: $49k granted · 5 linksYOUTH DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION INC: $687k granted · 7 linksRAR-MA INC: $120k granted · 4 linksANDOVER COMMUNITY TRUST INC: $216k granted · 3 linksNORTHERN ESSEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FO: $273k granted · 5 linksMERRIMACK RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL: $154k granted · 6 linksLawrence Public Schools: named by 3 granteesLawrence Public SchoolsSalem State University: named by 3 granteesSalem State University
grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

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Anchors several grantees share

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Joint program 141Affiliation 32Coalition 32Funding 11Referral network 6Shared facility 3Fiscal sponsorship 2
How this is measured
Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.
Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Community Improvement, Education, Environment, Food & Nutrition, Health, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Philanthropy, Public Safety & Disaster, Science & Tech, Unclassified, Youth Development

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Institution for Savin…Cummings Foundation G…Salem Five Charitable…Rogers Family Foundat…Eastern Bank Foundati…United Way Of Massach…People's United Commu…The Peter and Elizabe…Edward S & Winifred G…Boston Foundation IncAmelia Peabody Founda…Van Otterloo Family F…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Essex County Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Essex County Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 510%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 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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