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Joseph E and Rosemarie Corcoran Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Joseph E and Rosemarie Corcoran Family Charitable Foundation

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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$5.7MYouth Development$3.2MEducation$300kPhilanthropy$250kInternational$75kHousing & Shelter$70kCrime & Legal$50kHealth$43kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DORCHESTER INC$1,000,000
THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC$250,000
CAMP HARBORVIEW$200,000
CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$25,000
AMERICAN IRELAND FUND$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BETH ISRAEL DEACONNESS MEDICAL CENTER: $25k → 7%CARDINAL CUSHING CENTER INC: $5k → 8%YOUTH BUILD USA: $125k → 8%NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $15k → 11%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $125k → 16%CURE: $10k → 14%CARITAS COMMUNITIES: $40k → 7%YOUTH BUILD USA: $100k → 8%NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $15k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DORCHESTER INC: $1.0M → 16%CARITAS COMMUNITIES: $25k → 7%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DORCHESTER INC: $1.0M → 16%CARDINAL CUSHING CENTER INC: $2k → 7%JOHN F KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $10k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $333k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $200k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $200k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $200k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $25k → 16%CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $25k → 16%CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 16%CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 16%THE BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $250k → 16%HOMESTART INC: $3k → 16%HOMESTART INC: $3k → 16%THE NATIVITY PREP SCHOOL: $25k → 16%THE NATIVITY PREP SCHOOL: $25k → 16%THE NATIVITY PREP SCHOOL: $15k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $1.6M → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $1.0M → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $856k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $431k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $390k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $390k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $376k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $282k → 16%THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND: $25k → 16%THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $250k → 16%AMERICAN IRELAND FUND: $10k → 16%CAMP HARBORVIEW: $30k → 16%AMERICAN IRELAND FUND: $10k → 16%PROJECT HOPE: $15k → 16%AMERICAN IRELAND FUND: $5k → 16%PROJECT HOPE: $10k → 16%ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS: $10k → 16%B'NAI B'RITH HOUSING: $10k → 16%B'NAI B'RITH HOUSING: $3k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.2M · 13 repeat orgs$218k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +91% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
7

Total granted

$9.2M
$218k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+40%

Still filing today

54%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthMembership BenefitYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TA
    THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $5.7M · revenue +212% · 69% of their budget
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2017–2025 · $988k · revenue +229%
  • CC
    CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $65k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • EMMANUEL COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +42%
  • EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +41%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

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

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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.

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3
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
6
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
7
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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10
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
11
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
12
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caritas Communities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Simon of Cyrene Society Inc Co Weston Associates Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
11/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $5,651,929 · Membership BenefitTHE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INCBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DORCHESTER INC: $2,000,000 · OtherBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB DORCHES…+13 more: $306,000 · Other+13 moreCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $988,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR…Boston Foundation Inc: $250,000 · PhilanthropyYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $225,000 · EmploymentEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $125,000 · EducationJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $35,000 · EducationNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $30,000 · EducationCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 · Housing & Shelter
Membership Benefit$5,651,929Other$2,306,000Youth Development$988,000Philanthropy$250,000Employment$225,000Education$190,000Housing & Shelter$65,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN CITY COALITION INC: $5,651,929 over 9y, 69% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $988,000 over 6y, 3.3% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTHBUILD GLOBAL INC: $225,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $65,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS): $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY LIBRARY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL NEW BEDFORD INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC: $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCitizens United for Research in Epilepsy: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHomeStart Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON OF CYRENE SOCIETY INC CO WESTON ASSOCIATES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncHighland Street Conne…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA19.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Joseph E and Rosemarie Corcoran Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joseph E and Rosemarie Corcoran Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Youthbuild Global Inc: 69% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc: 40% of income from government
  • HomeStart Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Joseph E and Rosemarie Corcoran Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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