· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| WEST END HOUSE | $10,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS | $5,000 |
| EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| STOWE PERFORMING ARTS | $2,500 |
| THE BOSTON GLOBE FOUNDATIONGLOBE SANTA | $1,000 |
| EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCYCHARLESGATE ALLIANCE | $1,000 |
| STOWE LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| WGBH | $1,000 |
| SPRUCE PEAK ARTS | $1,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +162%
Funded once
- SWSTRONG WINGS ADVENTURE SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- NBNANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +61%
- GCGarden Club of the Back Bay Incone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue +11%
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 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…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 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 ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STOWE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds STOWE LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Garden Club of the Back Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH RIVER SCHOOL PTO INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION OF THE BACK BAY INC ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marinella Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marinella Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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