· Private foundation
MacPherson Fund 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Trust | $20,000 |
| Tuberous Sclerosis Alliance | $2,000 |
| The Church of the Redeemer | $2,000 |
| High Spirit Community Farm | $2,000 |
| Kenyon College | $1,983 |
| Groton School | $1,978 |
| Veterans 2 Veterans Group | $1,000 |
| New England Ski Museum | $1,000 |
| Dexter Southfield School | $1,000 |
| Heart Mountain Wyoming Foundation | $1,000 |
| Buffalo Bill Memorial Association | $1,000 |
| The Vincent Memorial Hospital | $1,000 |
| Belmont Hill School | $1,000 |
| Refugee Protection International | $1,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +69%
- HSHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +107%
- RIREACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- NDNotre Dame Office Of Gift Planningone grant, 2017 · $1k
- AOAPPLE ORCHARD TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +182%
- GDGRIZZLY DISCOVERY CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
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…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is WEE3BEASTIES Saving the Strays. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
59 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 72 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Franconia Ski Club ↗
- Who funds HIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds REACH INC ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds YOUTHBUILD BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds VINCENT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA'S MAGIC INC ↗
- Who funds Cause Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds WEE3BEASTIES SAVING THE STRAYS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT WASHINGTON OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING SERVICE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARITIME HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD MARITIME MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Colonial Williamsburg Foundation ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Pamela Steele White Family Foundation · Grandin Family Foundation · The Andover Companies Charitable Foundation · Boston Bruins Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation
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 MacPherson Fund Inc 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.
- Reach Inc — 85% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Youthbuild Boston Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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.