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John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Education$337kHuman Services$141kHousing & Shelter$70kHealth$40kCommunity Improvement$35kArts & Culture$1kOther$150k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$940k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOSTON COLLEGE$15,000
WILLIAMSTOWN FOOD PANTRY$10,000
PINE COBBLE SCHOOL$10,000
ROSIES PLACE$10,000
FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS$10,000
PINE STREET INN$10,000
BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC$5,000
ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC$5,000
BOTTOM LINE$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.

area typical 9%SOUTH EAST TEXAS FOOD BANK: $20k → 19%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL: $1k → 12%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC: $5k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$719k · 13 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
6

Total granted

$719k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+27%

Still filing today

69%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +58%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +90%
  • RP
    ROSIE'S PLACE INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +71%

Funded once

  • ST
    Southeast Texas Food Bank Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +27%
  • CC
    CHATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SE TEXAS
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
  • SP
    SAINT PATRICK AND RAPHAEL PANTRY
    one grant, 2023 · $11k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

3
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
4
Child Care of the Berkshires Inc

The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…

5
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
6
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
9
The Red Brick Nursery School Inc

Nursery school & kindergarten

10
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
11
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Bottom Line Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Boston College. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 19 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $226,275 · EducationPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATEDTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $105,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE+1 more — $6,000 · EducationORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION — $80,000 · OtherORPHAN FOUNDATION OF …WILLIAMSTOWN FOOD PANTRY — $15,250 · OtherWILLIAMSTOWN FOOD PAN…BERKSHIRE ARTS & TECHNOLOGY CHARTER PUBLIC SCHOOL — $14,000 · OtherBERKSHIRE ARTS & TECH…IMAGES CINEMA — $12,500 · OtherIMAGES CINEMACHATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SE TEXAS — $12,500 · OtherCHATHOLIC CHARITIES O…SAINT PATRICK AND RAPHAEL PANTRY — $11,000 · OtherSAINT PATRICK AND RAP…+1 more — $4,500 · OtherPINE STREET INN INC — $70,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INCROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesROOM TO GROW NATIONA…Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc — $20,000 · Human ServicesSoutheast Texas Food…PROYECTO MATRIA INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesPROYECTO MATRIA INC+1 more — $1,000 · Human ServicesROSIE'S PLACE INC — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PL…BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $40,000 · HealthTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $35,000 · Community ImprovementArt Museum of Southeast Texas — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$337,275Other$149,750Human Services$141,000Housing & Shelter$70,000Health$40,000Community Improvement$35,000Arts & Culture$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $226,275 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $70,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC — $40,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC — $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSoutheast Texas Food Bank Inc — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetArt Museum of Southeast Texas — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 PINE COBBLE SCHOOL INCORPORATED
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds ORPHAN FOUNDATION OF AMERICA D/B/A FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC
  • Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC
  • Who funds BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC
  • Who funds ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC
  • Who funds Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc
  • Who funds PROYECTO MATRIA INC
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds Art Museum of Southeast Texas
  • Who funds WILLIAMSTOWN COMMUNITY PRESCHOOL 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.

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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 John and Frances Strachan 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Pine Street Inn Inc11% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc0% of income from government
  • Pine Cobble School Incorporated0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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