· Private foundation
Margaret S Lindsay Foundation of 1989
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 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 $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SAMARITANS | $70,000 |
| HALE EDUCATION INC | $60,000 |
| BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER | $29,850 |
| SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON | $25,000 |
| COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORK | $25,000 |
| ARTS WAYLAND | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER | $20,000 |
| MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| MARTHA VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT | $10,000 |
| GRANTS 23 | $9,960 |
| WESTON AIC | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| THE CHILDRENS ROOM | $5,000 |
| HARVARD EPWORTH CHURCH | $1,340 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +69% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
SAMARITANS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +210%- CPCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +72%
- HEHALE EDUCATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $192k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- TSTHE SAMARITANSone grant, 2019 · $50k
- OHOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY M HOLLNAD CPNone grant, 2021 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
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.
Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.
Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Mspcc is a private, nonprofit society dedicated to leadership in protecting and promoting the rights and well-being of children and families.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To provide bereavement care
Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eliot Community Human Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weston Media Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 28 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 SAMARITANS INC ↗
- Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
- Who funds HALE EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds Weston Media Center Inc ↗
- Who funds METROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Casco Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE FOR CATS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds PARENTS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds WESTON DRAMA WORKSHOP ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Ilene Beal Charitable Foundation · Stifler Family Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 S Lindsay Foundation of 1989 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.
- Parents for Peace — 41% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Ellie Fund Inc — 15% of income from government
- Metrowest Legal Services Inc — 10% of income from government
- Shelter Music Boston Inc — 4% 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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