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Frank Gerrity Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$367k
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$76k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$1.2MHealth$606kReligion$386kInternational$225kHuman Services$117kArts & Culture$88kEnvironment$74kRecreation & Sports$27kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k72 grants · $109k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $183k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $76k
$1,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$4.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Epiphany Middle School$75,500
Jackson Laboratory$35,000
Church of the Redeemer$30,000
Yale School of Organization Mgt$30,000
Planned Parenthood$21,000
Grace Community Church$18,000
Love Justice International$15,000
Sustainable Medical Missions$12,000
Handel Hayden Society$11,500
University of Maine Foundation$10,000
Milton Academy$6,000
Informed Consent Action Network$5,250
Roux Institute$5,000
Vanderbilt University$5,000
Maine Medical Center$5,000
02The need
03

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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Rural Community Action Ministry: $3k → 13%Rural Community Action Ministry: $3k → 13%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $5k → 11%Rural Community Action Ministry: $3k → 13%SOUTHERN MAINE AGCY ON AGING: $5k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGCY ON AGING: $4k → 7%SOUTHERN MAINE AGCY ON AGING: $4k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

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NC
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TX
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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
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 121 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

121 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 42 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

121
28

Total granted

$2.8M
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+60%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
EducationHealthEnvironmentInternationalArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    9× · 2017–2025 · $268k · revenue +74%
  • LJ
    LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
    7× · 2019–2025 · $126k · revenue +72%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • SM
    Southern Maine Agy on Aging
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • BC
    Bowdoin Collegegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +94%

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

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.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

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

5
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
6
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
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

8
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
9
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
10
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
11
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
12
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Yarmouth Academy and the most unlike its peers is Johann Fust Library Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Youth Sports ProgramsEnvironmental Conservation …Community Food PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Independent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr14%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr14%24%35–55yr14%52%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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%1/88
the rest of the field
11%
4,713/42,270

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.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 79 of the 155 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/79
Grantees still filing
58/79
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Epiphany Middle School — $621,600 · OtherEpiphany Middle SchoolCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER — $179,250 · OtherCHURCH OF THE REDEEMERGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCH — $173,000 · OtherGRACE COMMUNITY CHURCHPlanned Parenthood — $95,750 · OtherYale School of Management — $80,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGE — $69,500 · Other+95 more — $739,400 · Other+95 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $267,500 · HealthTHE JACKSON LAB…MaineHealth — $41,000 · HealthMaineHealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $22,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEA…INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK — $16,500 · Health+8 more — $43,200 · Health+8 moreUniversity of Maine Foundation — $59,000 · EducationUniversity …MILTON ACADEMY — $48,000 · EducationMILTON ACAD…THE WINSOR SCHOOL — $41,500 · EducationTHE WINSOR …Vanderbilt University — $40,000 · EducationVanderbilt …NORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $17,500 · EducationNORTH YARMO…NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $10,500 · Education+16 more — $69,800 · Education+16 moreLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL — $126,000 · InternationalSUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC — $63,000 · International+3 more — $6,000 · InternationalYORK LAND TRUST — $18,000 · EnvironmentSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $6,000 · EnvironmentLAND'S SAKE INC — $5,500 · EnvironmentColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $5,300 · EnvironmentCHARLES RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC — $2,500 · EnvironmentKITTERY LAND TRUST INC — $2,500 · Environment+1 more — $1,000 · EnvironmentHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $28,500 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational Foundation — $6,500 · Arts & CultureYORK HARBOR READING ROOM FOUNDATION — $4,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $500 · Arts & CultureSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $12,250 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesRural Community Action Ministry — $7,500 · Human Services
Other$1,958,500Health$390,200Education$286,300International$195,000Environment$43,800Arts & Culture$40,000Human Services$29,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $267,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL — $126,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $69,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC — $63,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetUniversity of Maine Foundation — $59,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY — $48,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WINSOR SCHOOL — $41,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMaineHealth — $41,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVanderbilt University — $40,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $28,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYORK LAND TRUST — $18,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY — $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetINFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK — $16,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $12,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Maine Agency on Aging — $12,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC — $12,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC — $11,650 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetAGAMENTICUS YACHT CLUB INC — $11,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetNOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL — $10,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC — $9,900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMIRASOL HEALTH INC — $7,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRural Community Action Ministry — $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWellesley College — $7,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC — $6,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMARANATHA FARM — $6,750 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBOCA GRANDE HEALTH CLINIC FNDTN INC — $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHILTON HEAD PREPARATORY SCHOOL — $6,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC — $6,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC — $5,800 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCORPORATION OF ST TIMOTHY'S SCHOOL — $5,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetLAND'S SAKE INC — $5,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetColorado Outdoor Education Center Inc — $5,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJOHANN FUST LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION — $4,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetYORK HARBOR READING ROOM FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetOLD YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $3,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $3,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBowdoin College — $3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE LOWCOUNTRY INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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 THE JACKSON LABORATORY
  • Who funds LOVE JUSTICE INTERNATIONAL
  • Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE MEDICAL MISSIONS INC
  • Who funds University of Maine Foundation
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY
  • Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL
  • Who funds MaineHealth
  • Who funds Vanderbilt University
  • Who funds HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds YORK LAND TRUST
  • Who funds NORTH YARMOUTH ACADEMY
  • Who funds INFORMED CONSENT ACTION NETWORK
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds Southern Maine Agency on Aging
  • Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC
  • Who funds AGAMENTICUS YACHT CLUB INC
  • Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL
  • Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS 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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME26× affinity13 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Richard Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · A Caring Community Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Onion Foundation · Ibm International 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 Frank Gerrity Charitable Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 150%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc46% of income from government
  • Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc40% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc11% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc8% of income from government
  • Northeastern University7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc6% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc5% of income from government
  • Land's Sake Inc3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society2% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc0% of income from government
  • Pine Cobble School Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Frank Gerrity Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Frank Gerrity Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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