· Private foundation
John B Gray Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JAMESTOWN ART CENTER | $20,316 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND | $10,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD LIGHT | $7,316 |
| YMCA SOUTHCOAST | $5,000 |
| OUR SISTER'S SCHOOL OF NEW | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOORS INC | $5,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD WHALING MUSEUM | $2,816 |
| ROTCH JONES DUFF HOUSE | $2,500 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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 +64% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- JAJAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $113k · revenue +64%
- TUTHE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +16%
THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +250%
Funded once
- ACADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $10k
- SAST AIDAN'S CHAPELone grant, 2024 · $10k
ZEITERION THEATRE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -36%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Preserving and providing historical facilities, and promoting early american humanities and culture through hospitality, lodging, education, programming, and events.
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The duxbury rural and historical society (drhs) strives to be a responsible steward of our historical buildings, museum objects, archives, and lands. we welcome all audiences to learn along with us, explore our collections, and interpret…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
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…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 JAMESTOWN ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds ZEITERION THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH 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.
Open a dossier: Alvord Family Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization John B Gray Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John B Gray Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Zeiterion Theatre Inc: 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc: 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society: 2% of income from government
- The United Way of Central Maryland Inc: 2% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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