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Margaret Collins Charitable Trust at a glance

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Margaret Collins Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Human Services$155kHousing & Shelter$141kHealth$127kFood & Nutrition$110kEducation$50kAnimals$40kArts & Culture$29kPhilanthropy$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $38k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $100k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BREAD AND ROSES$15,000
LAZARUS HOUSE$15,000
LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK$10,000
MICHAEL P LISNOW RESPITE CENTER$10,000
MSPCA AT NEVINS FARM$10,000
NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR HOMELESS VETS$10,000
MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL$10,000
LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER$10,000
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$8,000
WINDRUSH FARM$8,000
MISSION OF DEEDS$7,000
JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES$5,000
KAPEDIA EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
FAMILY SERVICES$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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $7k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $6k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $6k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $6k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%MISSION OF DEEDS: $5k → 8%MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $20k → 8%MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $20k → 8%MICHAEL P LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $10k → 8%WINDRUSH FARM: $8k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $8k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $8k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $7k → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $5k → 10%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$663k · 20 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

20 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
8

Total granted

$663k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+37%

Still filing today

80%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterHealthPublic BenefitOther
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

  • BREAD & ROSES INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $70k · revenue +324%
  • THE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +30%
  • WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MERRIMACK COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +38%
  • LR
    LISNOW RESPITE CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • SS
    SALEM STATE COLLEGE YOUTH AT RISK
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
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
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

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…

Education
2
New England Resident Service Coordinators Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Leander House Inc

Assist people with disabilities

Health
4
Merrimack Valley Day Care Service

Daycare services

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5
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
6
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
7
Melrose Affordable Housing Corporation

Affordable housing rental rates for individuals with low income.

Housing & Shelter
8
Coming Home of Middlesex County

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…

Human Services
9
Massachusetts Legal Assistance Corp

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…

Crime & Legal
10
The Shared Living Collaborative Inc

To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities

Human Services
11
Lawrence Extended Day Program Inc

Provide after school educational programs to students of the Lawrence School in Brookline MA

Human Services
12
Brookview House Inc

Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lawrence Community Action Council Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 29 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $60,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALMSPCA AT NEVINS FARM: $40,000 · OtherMSPCA AT NEVINS FARMTHE JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES INC: $25,000 · OtherTHE JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES INCFAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · OtherFAMILY SERVICESPROJECT HOME: $21,000 · OtherPROJECT HOMEValley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc: $15,000 · OtherValley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery …LISNOW RESPITE CENTER: $10,000 · OtherMERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,500 · OtherMERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATI…Communities Together Inc: $10,000 · Other+4 more: $19,000 · Other+4 moreTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesTHE MICHAEL LISNOW R…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $36,000 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH FARM THERAP…Mission of Deeds Inc: $35,000 · Human ServicesMission of Deeds IncREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesREACH BEYOND DOMESTI…LAZARUS HOUSE INC: $90,000 · Housing & ShelterLAZARUS HOUSE INCVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterVIETNAM VETERANS W…BREAD & ROSES INC: $70,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD & ROSES IN…MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 · Food & NutritionMERRIMACK VALLEY…NEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $5,000 · Food & NutritionKapadia Education Foundation Inc: $25,000 · EducationKapadia Edu…Immigrant City Archives: $25,000 · EducationImmigrant C…MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $20,000 · EducationMERRIMACK C…NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND…Children's Hospital Corporation: $22,000 · HealthLawrence General Hospital: $20,000 · HealthESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Philanthropy
Other$238,500Human Services$136,000Housing & Shelter$120,000Food & Nutrition$110,000Education$75,000Health$42,000Philanthropy$27,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLAZARUS HOUSE INC: $90,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC: $70,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL LISNOW RESPITE CENTER INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $36,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC: $35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMission of Deeds Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS: $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKapadia Education Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetTHE JOEY FOURNIER SERVICES INC: $25,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetImmigrant City Archives: $25,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetValley Of Hope Shelter And Recovery Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMERRIMACK VALLEY IMMIGRANT & EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCommunities Together Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetGREATER LAWRENCE COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEIGHBORS IN NEED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetEssex Art Center Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Rogers Family Foundat…Essex County Communit…Eastern Bank Foundati…Josephine G Russell T…Cummings Foundation G…Artemas W Stearns Tru…The Savings Bank Char…We Share A Common Thr…Salem Five Charitable…Charles G Pringle Fou…RCB Charitable Founda…Arbella Insurance Fou…
Rogers Family FoundationMA28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Margaret Collins Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret Collins Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Margaret Collins Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Margaret Collins Charitable Trust 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 29 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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