· Private foundation
Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II Trustee
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| The Salem Pantry Inc | $13,000 |
| Community Development Partnership | $12,000 |
| DUFFY HEALTH CENTER | $10,000 |
| The Greater Boston Food Bank | $1,000 |
| Museum of Science | $1,000 |
| American Heritage Museum | $1,000 |
| Fransiscan Charities | $1,000 |
| HOME FOR OUR TROOPS | $1,000 |
| Chase Rauchle PTSD NOW | $1,000 |
| The Goodnow Library Foundation | $1,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER & HOME FOR VETERANS | $1,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| LEND A HAND SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| The Salvation Army of MA | $1,000 |
| Easter Seals | $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 (FY17–25, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 73% 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- DHDUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC7× · 2019–2025 · $64k · revenue +83%
SALEM PANTRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $61k · revenue +129%- FMFLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER4× · 2018–2024 · $38k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- SLST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVALgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +60%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $9k
- KHKINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $7k · revenue +29%
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.
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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.
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.
It is the mission of work,inc. to ensure that all individuals with disabilities have the ability to grow, the right to make choices, access to education, and the opportunity to participate in community life via meaningful work.
Provide specialized services to assist individuals and their families in overcoming the challenges of developmental disabilities, mental illness, and medical conditions.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Assist people with disabilities
Support employment for disabled individuals.
To foster community partnerships, promote individual advocacy and create a pathway for growth and innovation by offering exceptional support and services to people with all abilities through the attraction, development and retention of…
To maintain, sustain, improve, augment, promote, and publicize a walking trail connecting boston's historic sites. the organization also provides educational insight as to the walking trail and its rich history.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is A Rottweiler Empire Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 17. 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 — 0.0% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 42 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 DUFFY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SALEM PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FLANCE MANAGEMENT INC D/B/A FLANCE EARLY LEARNING CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds LAUMEIER SCULPTURE PARK ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE COD COMMUNITY DEVELOP- MENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds LEND A HAND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHASE RAUCHLE PTSD NOW ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds GOODNOW LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRED RITTNER PEMI CAMPERSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds A Rottweiler Empire Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds BUDDY DOG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR AUTISM AND NEURODIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AGAPE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BAROQUE 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Brown Dana Charitable Trust · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Washington University · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Edward Jones Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Verizon 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 Jean Nichols Charitable Trust Charles Nichols II 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Duffy Health Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
- Boston Baroque Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lower Cape Cod Community Develop- Ment Corporation — 1% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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