· Private foundation
Female Charitable Association of Gloucester
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 68% of FEMALE CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION OF GLOUCESTER’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TOGETHER GLOUCESTER | $1,500 |
| HAMMOND MUSEUM INC | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| FIRST R FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BACKYARD GROWERS | $1,000 |
| GLOUCESTER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| HAWC | $1,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| CAPE ANN ART HAVEN | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $600 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–26, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2026, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2026, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
BACKYARD GROWERS INC9× · 2018–2026 · $8k · revenue +119%
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC6× · 2021–2026 · $7k · revenue +42%
PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC4× · 2017–2020 · $3k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- GFGLOUCESTER FISHERMAN WIVES GROUPone grant, 2018 · $2k
- GFGLOUCESTER FISHERMANS WIVES GROUPone grant, 2019 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Provide resources and skills to individuals and families in the cape and islands to attain and retain independence and economic stability and self-sufficiency through personal growth, family stabilization, life skills and employment…
Promotion of tourism on cape ann including the towns of rockport, gloucester, manchester, essex, and ipswich ma.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Foster the creation and appreciation of the fine arts by holding art exhibitions; conducting educational programs; acquiring and displaying a permanent collection of representational cape ann works of art; maintaining and preserving our…
The mission of good jobs institute is to help companies thrive by creating good jobs. the institute achieves its goals by providing engagement and advisory support to companies on how to provide better opportunities for low wage workers…
The mission of the falmouth artists guild is to promote the visual arts for the cape cod community through educational opportunities and exhibitions for all.
To promote the fullest development of the individual's personal growth, social responsibility, independent living and vocational development. to increase the likelihood that people with disabilities will develop relationships, increase…
To provide family services and job training for women and their families in the greater gardner, ma area.
To inspire and connect the north central massachusetts community to create equitable access to healthy food and environmental sustainability through education, collaboration and advocacy. growing places supports 27 north central…
To foster an appreciation of the quality and diversity of life on cape ann, past and present; to further the knowledge and enjoyment of cape ann history and art; to collect and preserve significant information and artifacts; and to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pathways for Childreninc and the most unlike its peers is The Hammond Museum Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 32 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BACKYARD GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FIRST R FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS ADULT EDUCATION & TRAINING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HAMMOND MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ART HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CALEB GROUP INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · McCarthy Family Foundation · The Jebediah Foundation 7563-Xxxxxx00129 · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · Brace Cove Foundation Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Alfred Chase Charity Fdn Ui
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 Female Charitable Association of Gloucester 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Pathways Adult Education & Training Inc — 45% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Action Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cape Ann Art Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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