· Private foundation
John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt | $10,000 |
| Trustees of Reservation | $4,500 |
| Ipswich Watershed Assoc | $2,500 |
| Mass Audubon Society | $2,500 |
| Cape Ann Museum | $2,500 |
| Accord Food Pantry | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Beverly Bootstraps | $1,000 |
| Essex Mass Fire Dept | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| Open Door | $1,000 |
| Hamilton MA Fire Dept | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +148%
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS5× · 2020–2024 · $30k · revenue +29%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- TATHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF BELRANone grant, 2017 · $30k
- PTPAUL TAYLOR DANCE COMPANYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
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.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
Penobscot marine museum inspires curiosity and fosters understanding about life and work on the maine coast to encourage stewardship of our communities and the sea.
Conservation and preservation of land.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 35 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 ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BYRD HOFFMAN WATER MILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION 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 Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Mark Rudkin Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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