· Private foundation
Marinella Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $119k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET NEW SCHOOL | $41,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN | $27,500 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| WEST END HOUSE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $5,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| STOWE PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| WGBH | $1,000 |
| SPRUCE PEAK ARTS | $1,000 |
| EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCYCHARLESGATE ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| STOWE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATIONGLOBE SANTA | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +50% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k 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
- NPNANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $95k · revenue +130%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +50%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- SWSTRONG WINGS ADVENTURE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NBNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +44%
- GCGarden Club of the Back Bay Incone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +11%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
New england botanic garden at tower hill creates experiences with plants that inspire people and improve the world.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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.
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West End House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 NANTUCKET PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds WEST END HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH RIVER SCHOOL PTO INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OF THE BACK BAY 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: Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Marinella Family 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.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Stowe Land Trust — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 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.