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Margaret & Dom Barillaro Schol Tr

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$81kCommunity Improvement$2kHealth$1k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,600
Median grant
2
States reached
$269k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$5,200
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$2,600
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,600
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 85% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $3k → 7%MA Maritime Academy Foundation Inc: $1k → 8%BRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%UMASS LOWELL: $1k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1k → 10%MASS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY &: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS- AMHERST: $3k → 12%Williams College: $1k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%Penn State Health: $1k → 12%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $3k → 16%University of South Carolina FDN: $1k → 16%AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%Nova Southeastern University: $1k → 13%WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $2k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $1k → 11%Quinnipiac University: $1k → 12%ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY: $1k → 7%Bryant University: $1k → 14%Kenyon College: $1k → 12%VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $1k → 21%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $3k → 9%Union College: $1k → 33%SAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE: $1k → 7%HUSSON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 15%BABSON COLLEGE: $2k → 7%UMASS LOWELL: $1k → 8%MERRIMACK COLLEGE: $1k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS- AMHERST: $1k → 12%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $3k → 16%HAMILTON COLLEGE: $1k → 16%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $3k → 14%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%LASELL UNIVERSITY: $1k → 8%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $1k → 10%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $1k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASS- AMHERST: $1k → 12%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $1k → 16%THE GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE: $1k → 9%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $1k → 10%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $2k → 11%UMASS AMHERST: $1k → 12%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $1k → 11%Trustees of Amherst College: $1k → 12%University of Massachusetts Fnd Inc: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NH
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RI
MO
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$38k · 9 repeat orgs$41k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
28

Total granted

$38k
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+9%

Still filing today

67%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthOther

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

  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2021–2025 · $8k · revenue +53%
  • WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE
    3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +63%
  • TG
    The George Washington University
    3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +12%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -10%
  • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +6%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
3
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
4
University of New Haven

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…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
9
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
10
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University and the most unlike its peers is Penn State Health. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 84 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr14%87%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr19%12%20–35yr14%7%35–55yr14%79%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/31
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,327

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.

04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
22/31
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $7,600 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYThe George Washington University — $5,400 · EducationThe George Washington UniversityTrustees of Hamilton College — $4,000 · EducationTrustees of Hamilton CollegeTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $3,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $2,600 · EducationPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $2,600 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $2,400 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $2,200 · EducationBABSON COLLEGE — $2,000 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,000 · Education+17 more — $19,400 · Education+17 moreUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE — $6,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIREWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,400 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEUNIVERSITY OF MASS- AMHERST — $5,200 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASS- AMHERSTUMASS LOWELL — $2,000 · OtherUMASS LOWELLUniversity of South Carolina FDN — $1,400 · OtherUniversity of Massachusetts Fnd Inc — $1,400 · OtherSAINT JOSEPH COLLEGE — $1,000 · OtherBRIDGEWATER STATE UNIVERSITY — $1,000 · OtherVIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $1,000 · OtherUMASS AMHERST — $1,000 · OtherMASS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY & — $1,000 · OtherPenn State Health — $1,200 · Health
Education$55,200Other$26,600Health$1,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY — $7,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University — $5,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Hamilton College — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $2,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERRIMACK COLLEGE — $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $1,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTONEHILL COLLEGE INC — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Maritime Academy Foundation Inc — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNova Southeastern University Inc — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPenn State Health — $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHusson University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMMONS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 & Dom Barillaro Schol Tr 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • Northeastern University — 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College — 2% of income from government
  • Nova Southeastern University Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Lasell University — 1% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Simmons University — 0% of income from government
  • Babson College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • Williams College — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines