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Geoffrey and Clare H Nunes Charitable Trust

Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$548k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$139k
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 FY20172021.

Philanthropy$410kEducation$143kArts & Culture$39kInternational$2kEnvironment$1kSocial Science$500Health$325Housing & Shelter$250Other$0
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$136,380
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCORD ACADEMY$139,000
SCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND GEOFFREY NUNES JR DONOR$136,380
SCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND JAKE NUNES DONOR$136,380
SCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND MARGARET NUNES ROGERS DONOR$136,380
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 (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%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

ME
VT
NY
MA
PA
NJ
VA
FL

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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$169k · 4 repeat orgs$427k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
23

Total granted

$169k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $409k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    2× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +70%
  • DA
    DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK
    3× · 2017–2019 · $15k · revenue +15%
  • MR
    MAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $200 · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +38%
  • BM
    BRYN MAWR COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +37%
  • W
    WGBH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

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
Boston Architectural College

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

2
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
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
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher 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
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
11
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education
12
Amherst College Trustees

Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr15%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%9%20–35yr13%0%35–55yr15%90%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
11%
3,521/33,290

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

20 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. 20 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
15/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND MARGARET NUNES ROGERS DONOR — $136,380 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND MARGARET NUNES ROGERS DONORSCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND JAKE NUNES DONOR — $136,380 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND JAKE NUNES DONORSCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND GEOFFREY NUNES JR DONOR — $136,380 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITBALE DONOR ADVISED FUND GEOFFREY NUNES JR DONOR+12 more — $4,885 · OtherCONCORD ACADEMY — $139,500 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMY+4 more — $5,150 · EducationDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK — $15,000 · Arts & CultureACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $14,500 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $4,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $510 · Arts & CultureMAMA PROJECT INC — $2,000 · ReligionNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $1,000 · EnvironmentSHERRILL HOUSE INC — $300 · HealthMARCH OF DIMES INC — $25 · HealthROSIE'S PLACE INC — $150 · Housing & Shelter
Other$414,025Education$144,650Arts & Culture$34,010Religion$2,000Environment$1,000Health$325Housing & Shelter$150

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONCORD ACADEMY — $139,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT — $14,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYN MAWR COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIVE PLANT TRUST INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHERRILL HOUSE INC — $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC — $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAD RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY FUND INC — $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZUMIX INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $50 over 1y, 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA20.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Geoffrey and Clare H Nunes 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 · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Sherrill House Inc31% of income from government
  • Cambridge School Volunteers Inc14% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University11% of income from government
  • Actors' Shakespeare Project6% of income from government
  • Zumix Inc5% of income from government
  • Native Plant Trust Inc3% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company3% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc3% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 31 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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