· 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 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 $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 |
| Dexter Southfield School | $1,000 |
| USS Constitution Museum | $1,000 |
| Needham Police Working Dogs Foundation | $1,000 |
| Tenacity | $1,000 |
| REACH | $1,000 |
| TCC Employee Education Fund Inc | $1,000 |
| St Jude Childrens Research Hospital | $1,000 |
| Folds of Honor | $1,000 |
| Animal Friends Alliance | $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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +35% since the first grant, against +31% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation8× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +91%
- HSHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +107%
- RIREACH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $15k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CBCAMP BIGHORN INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +80%
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICAgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +31%- NDNotre Dame Office Of Gift Planningone grant, 2017 · $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.
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…
How this is measured
59 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. 59 of the 72 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.
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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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization MacPherson Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MacPherson Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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