· Private foundation
Marigold Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $198k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $233k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY | $82,000 |
| JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER | $78,000 |
| BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER | $72,806 |
| CAMP STARFISH | $49,000 |
| SIBLING CONNECTIONS | $40,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $38,888 |
| HAWC | $25,000 |
| CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY | $25,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $20,486 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $496k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +108% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION5× · 2020–2024 · $935k · revenue +58%- CACHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $367k · revenue +145%
JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC5× · 2020–2024 · $222k · revenue +58%
Funded once
- TKTHE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATEDone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +18%
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.
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.
The organization provides child care services to families through child care centers and a network of family child care homes. child care of the berkshires also strengthens families through support services and home visiting focused on…
Massachusetts children's alliance pioneers the most promising, leading-edge ways that help victims of child abuse.
Children's services
Boston community pediatrics (bcp) provides ambulatory pediatric and related health care services to the residents of boston, massachusetts, and surrounding communities. bcp is a new model of innovative pediatric healthcare that addresses…
Kidspeace, founded in 1882, is a healthcare nonprofit that is dedicated to providing hope, help, and healing to children, adults, and those who love them.continued on schedule o.with 40 offices and facilities across seven states, this…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
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.
BCNSP supports the following three pillars of Boston Children's Hospital's four-part mission: (1) providing care to individuals in the community, (2) improving clinical care to its patients, and (3) educating and training clinicians. In…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER OF SUFFOLK COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP STARFISH INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SIBLING CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEY PROGRAM INCORPORATED ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marigold Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marigold Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Key Program Incorporated: 86% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Camp Starfish Inc: 18% of income from government
- Sibling Connections Inc: 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
How this is measured
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