· Private foundation
Helen a Nigro Foundation Janice C Nigro Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 $10k10 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $21,000 |
| READING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| HADWEN PARK CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $9,500 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| READING FOOD PANTRY | $3,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| WAKEFIELD FOOD PANTRY | $2,205 |
| MIDDLESEX CONCERT BAND | $2,000 |
| READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,500 |
| HOMEWORK HOUSE | $1,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- RSREADING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $52k · revenue +14%
- MOMission of Deeds Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +59%
- RFREADING FOOD PANTRY INC8× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- RPREADING PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $15k
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +20%- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2020 · $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.
To carry out nonprofit corporate activities to sustain, increase, and extend the operations of the reading public library. these activities are to include, but are not limited to, the acquisition of property, collection and disbursement of…
Provide Free Food and Household Supplies to local residents
Public Library
To be a resource for all residents of Killingworth, providing spaces to meet and areas for reading and study. To offer a variety of print and other materials and a computer network, including wifi. To sponsor programs and exhibits in order…
The newton food pantry works to alleviate food insecurity by providing free supplemental food and personal care products to community members in need, serving clients with dignity, compassion and respect.
The medway village food pantry is a 100% choice pantry serving over 2,500 children, adults, and seniors in metrowest ma. each week clients may choose from a wide variety of items including fresh produce, eggs, cheese, shelf-stable foods,…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
A philantrhopic organization benefitting individual charities, scholarships, and social needs in the town of reading, ma.
Provide public library services
The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…
To provide emergency food assistance to any resident of Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, and Sterling in a caring and confidential manner as part of the Worcester County Hunger-Free Network.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reading Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reading Scholarship 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.
14 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. 14 of the 26 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 READING SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds READING FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds READING PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Wakefield Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds READING SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds CARING PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds QUANNAPOWITT PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEWORK HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEFIELD ALLIANCE AGAINST VIOLENCE 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Helen a Nigro Foundation Janice C Nigro Trustee 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.
- Wakefield Alliance Against Violence Inc — 39% of income from government
- Homework House Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Boston Legal Services Inc — 3% 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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