· Private foundation
John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| ROSIES PLACE | $10,000 |
| PINE COBBLE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $10,000 |
| WILLIAMSTOWN FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| FOSTER CARE TO SUCCESS | $10,000 |
| BOTTOM LINE | $5,000 |
| ROOM TO GROW NATIONAL INC | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE NURSING FAMILIES INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE7× · 2018–2024 · $105k · revenue +58%- RPROSIE'S PLACE INC7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +71%
PINE STREET INN INC7× · 2018–2024 · $70k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- STSoutheast Texas Food Bank Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +27%
- CCCHATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SE TEXASone grant, 2017 · $13k
- SPSAINT PATRICK AND RAPHAEL PANTRYone grant, 2023 · $11k
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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…
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…
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…
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
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…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Nursery school & kindergarten
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
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.
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…
How this is measured
13 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. 13 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Frances Strachan Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pine Cobble School Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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