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Ipswich Foundation Inc at a glance

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Ipswich Foundation Inc

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.

$12k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$38kEducation$29kReligion$26kArts & Culture$8kHuman Services$5kYouth Development$1k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$104k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAWSTROUD FOUNDATION$5,000
ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$2,500
ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY$1,000
ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH$1,000
NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM$1,000
FIRST CHURCH$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 8%LAWSTROUD FOUNDATION: $11k → 10%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 16%WILBRAHAM & MONSON ACADEMY: $1k → 17%ST BASIL ACADEMY: $1k → 6%AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION: $2k → 14%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $2k → 9%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ST NICHOLAS GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 5%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%LAWSTROUD FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $5k → 12%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 9%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%LAWSTROUD FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN CT: $5k → 12%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $3k → 17%SALVATION ARMY: $1k → 9%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%HERITAGE BAPTIST CHURCH: $1k → 9%LAWSTROUD FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $1k → 10%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%CARE DIMENSIONS: $2k → 10%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%CARE DIMENSION HOSPICE: $1k → 10%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM: $1k → 23%ANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $1k → 9%FIRST CHURCH: $2k → 10%ST JUDE'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $1k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $10k → 9%FIRST CHURCH OF IPSWICH: $2k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $2k → 10%FIRST CHURCH: $1k → 10%ASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $1k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
NY
MA
PA
CT
VA
TN
LA
TX
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$90k · 10 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +121% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$90k
$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+121%
+28%

Still filing today

40%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationPublic BenefitArts & CultureOther
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

  • LS
    LAW STROUD FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $21k · revenue +121%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $13k · revenue +125%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of New Havengraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +42%
  • Care Dimensions Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +6%
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF IPSWICH
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
4
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
9
Dickinson College

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

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
12
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum 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

8 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. 8 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
8/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $11,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARY: $8,500 · OtherASSUMPTION OF THE VIRGIN MARYFIRST CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherFIRST CHURCHANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherANNUNCIATION GREEK CHURCHSALVATION ARMY: $5,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMY+10 more: $11,000 · Other+10 moreLAW STROUD FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 · Public BenefitLAW STROUD FOUNDATION …QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVE…University of New Haven: $5,000 · EducationUniversity of Ne…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,500 · HealthST JUDE CHILDR…American Heart Association Inc: $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart…THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & Culture
Other$48,500Public Benefit$21,000Education$15,000Health$14,000Arts & Culture$7,500

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 budgetLAW STROUD FOUNDATION INC: $21,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILBRAHAM AND MONSON ACADEMY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds LAW STROUD FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds University of New Haven ↗
  • Who funds Care Dimensions Inc ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILBRAHAM AND MONSON ACADEMY ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ipswich Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ipswich Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Care Dimensions Inc: 14% of income from government
  • University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Wilbraham and Monson Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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.

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 21 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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