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Grover Cronin Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY-ALLISON HOVESPIAN | $1,250 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE-PAUL LEONELLI | $1,250 |
| WALTHAM BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $1,250 |
| UMASS AMHERST-JULIA MCINTYRE | $1,250 |
| BENTLEY UNIVERSITY-ALLISON HOVESPIAN | $1,250 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE-PAUL LEONELLI | $1,250 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM MARY-ALEXIS HOVSEPIAN | $1,250 |
| COLLEGE OF WILLIAM MARY-ALEXIS HOVSEPIAN | $1,250 |
| UMASS AMHERST-JULIA MCINTYRE | $1,250 |
| WALTHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| ST ANSELMS COLLEGE-DYLAN PERRY | $1,000 |
| UMASS AMHERST-HANNAH GLOVER | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF WALTHAM | $1,000 |
| THE WALTHAM MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| CARROL CENTER FOR THE BLIND | $750 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your 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 +51% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
REGIS COLLEGE4× · 2017–2020 · $13k · revenue +45%
CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +100%- TOTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- AOARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTONone grant, 2022 · $2k
- MCMIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $1k
- UAUMASS AMHERSTone grant, 2023 · $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.
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…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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,…
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.
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
Located in south hadley, massachusetts, mount holyoke college is a highly selective, nondenominational, residential, research liberal arts college for women that is gender-diverse and welcomes applications from female, transgender, and…
As the national university of the catholic church in the united states, founded and sponsored by the bishops of the country with the approval of the holy see, the catholic university of america is committed to being a comprehensive…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Waltham Police Relief Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 63 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 REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds STONEHILL COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL CENTER FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds THE JULIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WALTHAM POLICE RELIEF ASSOCIATION 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 Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grover Cronin Memorial 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.
- Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 6% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 5% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- Regis College — 1% of income from government
- Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 0% 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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