· Private foundation
Margaret Collins Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAD AND ROSES | $15,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE | $15,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR HOMELESS VETS | $10,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER | $10,000 |
| MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM | $10,000 |
| MICHAEL P LISNOW RESPITE CENTER | $10,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| WINDRUSH FARM | $8,000 |
| MISSION OF DEEDS | $7,000 |
| JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES | $5,000 |
| FAMILY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| KAPEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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.
20 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
BREAD & ROSES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +324%
THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +30%
WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +16%
Funded once
MERRIMACK COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +38%- LRLISNOW RESPITE CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SSSALEM STATE COLLEGE YOUTH AT RISKone grant, 2019 · $5k
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.
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
Resident Service Coordinators are professionals who serve elders, youth and families in their housing communities. NERSC provides training & professional development, including on-line courses for Resident Service Coordinators and housing…
Assist people with disabilities
Daycare services
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Affordable housing rental rates for individuals with low income.
The mission of Coming Home is to create a system to end homelessness in Middlesex County by fostering collaborations and public-private partnerships among all stakeholders to ensure that people have a stable place to call home and…
The massachusetts legal assistance corporation provides leadership and support to improve civil legal services to low-income people in massachusetts through collaboration with the legal services community, the legislature, the public, the…
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 29 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 LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD & ROSES INC ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Mission of Deeds Inc ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kapadia Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Communities Together Inc ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC ↗
- Who funds Essex Art Center 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: Rogers Family Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Josephine G Russell Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Artemas W Stearns Trust · The Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Charles G Pringle Foundation · RCB Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Margaret Collins Charitable Trust 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Communities Together Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Neighbors in Need Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex Art Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% 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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