· Private foundation
Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| NEWTON WELLESLEY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS CHILDREN'S | $10,000 |
| SPAULDING REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL SHRINE OF THE INFANT JESUS OF PRAGUE | $5,000 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $5,000 |
| LEGAL INFORMATION INSTITUTE AT CORNELL LAW SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $5,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS | $3,000 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC | $3,000 |
| GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND | $2,000 |
| PIRANDELLO LYCEUM | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
26 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY7× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +14%- PSPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND6× · 2018–2023 · $53k · revenue +27%
- AAASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2019–2024 · $30k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- FCFRANCISCAN CHILDREN'Sone grant, 2024 · $6k
- CPCHORUS PRO MUSICA INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -33%
- FMFRANCISCAN MISSIONSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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,…
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.
The boston area rape crisis center (barcc) works to end sexual violence through healing and social change. as the only rape crisis center in greater boston and one of the nation's oldest, barcc provides free, inclusive, empowerment-based…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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.…
To empower individuals from diverse communities to find employment and build careers, while partnering with employers to hire, develop, and retain productive workforces.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
The price center empowers individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities to thrive in their living, social and work communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pirandello Lyceum 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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
21 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 38 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 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds PIRANDELLO LYCEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRANSITION HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE VICTORY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
- Who funds CHORUS PRO MUSICA INC ↗
- Who funds Health Care Without Walls Inc ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BROCKTON INTERFAITH COMMUNITY 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: The George and Alice Rich Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Needham Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation 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 Gloria C Crotty Charitable Foundation 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.
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 56% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 41% of income from government
- Transition House Inc — 40% of income from government
- Asian American Civic Association Inc — 16% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 6% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 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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