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Margaret S Lindsay Foundation of 1989 at a glance

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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.

$297k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$830kArts & Culture$373kRecreation & Sports$202kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kEducation$15kHuman Services$15kCrime & Legal$10kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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 VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT$10,000
MARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM$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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%THE CHILDRENS ROOM: $5k → 8%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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 12 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +107% since the first grant, against +69% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
11

Total granted

$1.3M
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+107%
+69%

Still filing today

67%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
Arts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsEducationHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • SAMARITANS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +210%
  • CP
    COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $220k · revenue +107%
  • SM
    SHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $190k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE SAMARITANS
    one grant, 2019 · $50k
  • OH
    OREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY M HOLLNAD CPN
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
Care Dimensions Inc

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.

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2
Jeff's Place Children's Bereavement Center Inc

Jeff's Place offers hope and healing in a supportive community for grieving children, teens, families and individuals.

Human Services
3
Massachusetts Children'S Alliance Inc

Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.

Human Services
4
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
5
Massachusetts Nonprofit Network

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.

Education
6
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
7
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children

Mspcc is a private, nonprofit society dedicated to leadership in protecting and promoting the rights and well-being of children and families.

Crime & Legal
8
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
9
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
10
Mary's Place Inc

To provide bereavement care

—
11
Bay State Performing Arts Inc

Organization creates musical experiences to inspire change, build community and celebrate difference.

Arts & Culture
12
Community Counseling of Bristol County Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eliot Community Human Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITANS INC: $270,000 · HealthSAMARITANS INCCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $220,000 · HealthCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC+1 more: $10,000 · HealthIndividual grant recipient: $105,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientARTS WAYLAND: $70,000 · OtherARTS WAYLANDCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $60,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTERMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: $60,000 · OtherMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT…THE SAMARITANS: $50,000 · OtherTHE SAMARITANSOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY M HOLLNAD CPN: $25,000 · OtherOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSI…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · Other+8 more: $52,425 · Other+8 moreSHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC: $190,000 · Arts & CultureSHELTER MUSIC BOS…CULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $29,850 · Arts & CultureCULTURAL ALLIANCE…Weston Media Center Inc: $11,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureHALE EDUCATION INC: $192,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCATION…Camp Casco Inc: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsELLIE FUND INC: $145,000 · EducationELLIE FUND…Hospitality Homes Inc: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterPEOPLE FOR CATS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 · Animals
Health$500,000Other$437,425Arts & Culture$243,350Recreation & Sports$202,000Education$145,000Housing & Shelter$10,000Animals$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAMARITANS INC: $270,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC: $220,000 over 5y, 7.7% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $192,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSHELTER MUSIC BOSTON INC: $190,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetELLIE FUND INC: $145,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: $60,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetCULTURAL ALLIANCE OF MEDFIELD DBA BELLFORGE ARTS CENTER: $29,850 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWeston Media Center Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetMETROWEST LEGAL SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Casco Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospitality Homes Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPEOPLE FOR CATS A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARENTS FOR PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTON DRAMA WORKSHOP: $2,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…The Ilene Beal Charit…Stifler Family Founda…Community Foundation …GivenGain Foundation …Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Boston Foundation IncMA21.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 S Lindsay Foundation of 1989 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Margaret S Lindsay Foundation of 1989. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
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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 28 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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