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George Harrington Trust UW at a glance

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George Harrington Trust UW

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$177k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$515kHuman Services$449kYouth Development$165kRecreation & Sports$27k
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $120k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Samaritans Inc$50,000
Hopewell Inc$30,000
Association for Autism and Neurodiversity$20,000
Families for Depression Awareness$20,000
Walker Inc$20,000
Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc$10,000
The Carroll Center for the Blind$10,000
Wildflower Inc$10,000
Cambridge Camping Association$7,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $464k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Neads Inc: $5k → 11%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Hopewell Inc: $35k → 7%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Hopewell Inc: $35k → 7%Hopewell Inc: $35k → 7%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Hopewell Inc: $35k → 7%Hopewell Inc: $30k → 7%Families for Depression Awareness: $20k → 8%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $14k → 16%Hopewell Inc: $30k → 7%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10k → 16%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10k → 16%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10k → 16%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10k → 16%Self Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $10k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $40k → 16%The Home for Little Wanderers: $35k → 16%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 11 repeat orgs$50k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
3

Total granted

$1.1M
$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • SAMARITANS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $270k · revenue +210%
  • HI
    HOPEWELL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +3%
  • WI
    WALKER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $120k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • MC
    MAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +23%
  • EC
    ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +77%
  • NI
    NEADS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +29%
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.

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
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
2
Lifeworks Incorporated

Lifeworks provides education, jobs and homes for persons with developmental disabilities empowering them to lead meaningful lives within the community. our guiding principles ensure that lifeworks staff and volunteers strive to create and…

Human Services
3
Marrakech Inc

Provides person-centered and inclusive services to children and adults with and without disabilities that includes securing employment, connecting to necessary supportive services, accessing housing and participating fully as contributing…

Employment
4
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…

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5
Center for Living & Working Inc

We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.

Human Services
6
Cutchins Programs for Children & Families Inc

To help children and families transform significant emotional distress into increased resilience, hope and quality of life. to support the healing and learning process with innovation and integrity, and to serve as a model for best and…

Health
7
The May Institute Inc

May institute proudly serves individuals across the lifespan with autism, developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, neurological disorders, and behavior disorders to promote independence, choice, dignity, and respect. see…

Health
8
Viability Inc

Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.

Employment
9
Behavioral Associates of Massachusetts Inc

To provide day and residential treatment programs for adults diagnosed with autism or behavioral disorders.

—
10
Triangle Inc

Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.

—
11
Lifeworks Services Inc

Lifeworks' mission is to partner with people with disabilities to drive change by increasing opportunity and access in the community.

Human Services
12
Easter Seals Massachusetts Inc

Easter seals massachusetts is a statewide community-based organization that has been helping people with disabilities to live full and independent lives for over 75 years. our mission is to provide services to ensure that children and…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Home for Little Wanderers Inc; the most unlike its peers is Families for Depression Awareness Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPEWELL INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesHOPEWELL INCFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc: $120,000 · Human ServicesFamilies for Depression Awareness IncTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INCSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $63,850 · Human ServicesSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITANS INC: $270,000 · HealthSAMARITANS INCChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital CorporationTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 · HealthTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INCASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $20,000 · HealthMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 · Health+1 more: $10,000 · HealthWALKER INC: $120,000 · EducationWALKER INCWILDFLOWER INC: $95,000 · EducationWILDFLOWER INCREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$463,850Health$405,000Education$215,000Arts & Culture$45,000Recreation & Sports$27,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITANS INC: $270,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetHOPEWELL INC: $200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWALKER INC: $120,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamilies for Depression Awareness Inc: $120,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetWILDFLOWER INC: $95,000 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSelf Esteem Boston Educational Institute Inc: $63,850 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC: $27,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMAB COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEADS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Hamilton Company …Priscilla Alden UwoEastern Cambridge Fou…Health Resources in A…Essex County Communit…Combined Jewish Phila…Bushrod H Campbell & …The New England Patri…Cambridge Savings Cha…
Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)MA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Priscilla Alden Uwo · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Health Resources in Action Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc

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 George Harrington Trust UW funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from George Harrington Trust UW. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 33%
  • Hopewell Inc: 77% of income from government
  • Mab Community Services Inc: 72% of income from government
  • Samaritans Inc: 40% of income from government
  • The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Walker Inc: 25% of income from government
  • Families for Depression Awareness Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Cambridge Camping Association Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Rehearsal for Life Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to George Harrington Trust UW 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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