· Private foundation
Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of MALCOLM AND ELIZABETH FRASER FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALSACST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $15,000 |
| CAROUSEL OF LIGHT INC | $14,000 |
| 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $10,000 |
| OPERATION SMILE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WORLD SERVICE KITCHEN | $3,500 |
| GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 32% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +38% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 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, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- SRSOLID ROCK MINISTRIES INC3× · 2019–2021 · $42k · revenue +38%
- T3THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC2× · 2023–2025 · $25k · revenue +35%
- GBGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC2× · 2020–2025 · $24k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +32%
- CPCREATIVE PLAY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue 0%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $8k · revenue +3%
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.
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Water.org's goal is to bring safe water and sanitation to the world through access to small, affordable loans.
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To provide multi-specialty surgical care, humanitarian aid and educational support to people in low- and middle-income countries.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is K-9S of the War On Terror Inc. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 48 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 SOLID ROCK MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE 300 COMMITTEE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE PLAY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY WITHOUT WALLS INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH ROAD RACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds St Petersburg Free Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds K-9S OF THE WAR ON TERROR INC ↗
- Who funds R'CLUB CHILD CARE INC ↗
- Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
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: Hermann Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Fraser Family Foundation Inc · Caithness Foundation · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation 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.
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% 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.
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