· Private foundation
Marguerite Jossel Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $155k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Vincent de Paul Of Jupiter | $25,000 |
| Reaching Out Community Services Inc | $25,000 |
| Xavier Mission Inc | $25,000 |
| Berkshire Grown Inc | $15,000 |
| Open Pantry Community Services Inc | $15,000 |
| Grow Food Northampton Inc | $10,000 |
| Hilltown Village | $10,000 |
| Momma's Inc | $10,000 |
| The Gray House | $10,000 |
| Better Together Dog Rescue | $10,000 |
| The People's Pantry Inc | $5,000 |
| Pittsfield Community Food Pantry | $5,000 |
| Paw Patrol | $5,000 |
| Lorraine's Soup Kitchen and Pantry | $2,500 |
| Community Survival Center | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +14% since the first grant, against -5% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- XMXAVIER MISSION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +14%
FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +113%- BTBetter Together Dog Rescue4× · 2021–2025 · $30k · revenue +578%
Funded once
- BSBARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- HWHADASSAH WOMENS ZIONIST ORG OF AMERone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ECEASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTERone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +4%
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.
Little shelter animal adoption center, one of long island's oldest no-kill shelters,is dedicated to saving all companion animals whose lives are in jeopardy. throughrescue from kill facilities, rehabilitation of sick and un-socialized…
Animal rescue rhode island (arri) is dedicated to rescuing companion animals in need and to the humane welfare of homeless animals.
Berkshire humane society, inc. is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, open-admission animal support organization. our mission is to ensure the compassionate care, treatment and placement of companion animals, while promoting and improving the welfare…
At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.
The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
The purpose of the society is to provide shelter, prevent cruelty to animals, and advocate for their welfare. through humane education, the society strives to enlighten the public and to improve the quality of life for animals and people.
Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…
Survivors Paws Animal Rescue Inc rescues dogs and cats from southern state kill shelters and off the streets to save them being euthanized. We also help contract by the pet population by spaying and neutering and educating the public on…
UVHS improves quality of life for people and pets through an innovative animal shelter and adoption center and through services that reduce suffering, support wellness, and foster compassion.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Open Pantry Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Metropolitan Museum of Art. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
46 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. 46 of the 64 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 XAVIER MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds REACHING OUT COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN PANTRY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds JERUSALEM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Better Together Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds ANGEL CITY PIT BULLS ↗
- Who funds HILLTOWN VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Mommas Inc ↗
- Who funds GROW FOOD NORTHAMPTON INC ↗
- Who funds SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BARRINGTON STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTHAMPTON COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Gray House Inc ↗
- Who funds PAW PATROL ↗
- Who funds WEST POINT CLAY COUNTY ANIMAL SHELT ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE THEATRE GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Sweet Paws Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds LAST HOPE K9 RESCUE LTD ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR PITS FOUNDATION 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: The Food Bank of Western Massachusetts Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Howard E Stark Charitable Foundation · Florence Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Zoe Foundation · Berkshire United Way Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust
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 Marguerite Jossel Charitable Foundation 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.
- Berkshire Grown Inc — 28% of income from government
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc — 26% of income from government
- Grow Food Northampton Inc — 25% of income from government
- Neighbors Helping Neighbors Inc — 14% of income from government
- Hilltown Village — 7% of income from government
- Berkshire Theatre Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Amherst Business Improvement District Inc — 0% 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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