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Marjorie W Sloper Charitable 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.

$45k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$148kMembership Benefit$30kPhilanthropy$26kPublic Safety & Disaster$25kEducation$24kReligion$19kHuman Services$12kYouth Development$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$406k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$10,000
OFFICER HAROLD VITALE MEMORIAL FUND$5,300
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS$5,000
WILDCAT RUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$5,000
OUR LADY OF LIGHT PARISH$3,500
BENTLEY UNIVERSITY$3,000
BETH ISRAEL LAHEY MEDICAL CENTER$3,000
WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$2,500
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA$1,500
ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION MASS CHAPTER$1,000
BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST$1,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$1,000
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$1,000
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT$1,000
JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $3k → 10%WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$284k · 19 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +90% since the first grant, against +36% for those funded once.

19 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

$284k
$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
+36%

Still filing today

47%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthPhilanthropyEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    8× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +162%
  • WR
    WILDCAT RUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +146%
  • BENTLEY UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • MC
    MARIE C PETRILLI MEMORIAL FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
  • SA
    ST ANNE'S PARISH
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
2
Joslin Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.

Health
3
Winchester Hospital

The mission of winchester hospital is "to care. to heal. to excel." this ethos provides each and every staff member with clear expectations, promoting teamwork and respect while ensuring safety, quality and empathy for patients. winchester…

Health
4
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
5
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
6
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…

Health
7
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
8
Beth Israel Lahey Health Inc

Beth israel lahey health inc.'s mission is to support its affiliates and their healthcare missions, to improve the health of patients, their families and the communities served and as a network its purpose is to create healthier…

Health
9
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
10
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…

Health
11
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
12
Anna Jaques Hospital Inc

The mission of anna jaques hospital (ajh or hospital) is to provide the highest quality medical care and improve the health of the communities served by ajh in alliance with the ajh medical staff and ajh affiliates including seacoast…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 23 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MS GREATER NEW ENGLAND CHAPTER: $30,000 · OtherMS GREATER NEW ENGLAND CHAPTERNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $28,500 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSISOFFICER HAROLD VITALE MEMORIAL FUND: $25,300 · OtherOFFICER HAROLD VITALE MEMORIAL FUNDOUR LADY OF LIGHT CATHOLIC COMMUNITY: $17,500 · OtherOUR LADY OF LIGHT CATHOLIC COMMUNITYLINK UP FOR MS: $12,000 · OtherLINK UP FOR MSBETH ISRAEL LAHEY MEDICAL CENTER: $11,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL LAHEY MEDICAL CENTERALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION MASS CHAPTER: $9,500 · OtherALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION MASS CHAPTERAUGIES QUEST: $5,500 · Other+5 more: $12,500 · Other+5 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $55,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute …Children's Hospital Corporation: $8,000 · HealthChildren's Hospital Corporati…JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $8,000 · HealthJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INCNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $4,500 · HealthNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF…WILDCAT RUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 · PhilanthropyWILDCAT RU…BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $22,000 · EducationBENTLEY U…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · EducationSTEPHEN S…WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesWINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Human Services
Other$151,800Health$75,500Philanthropy$25,500Education$24,000Human Services$11,500

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 budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $55,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWILDCAT RUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $24,500 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY: $22,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds WILDCAT RUN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD SAILS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION 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.

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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 Marjorie W Sloper Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marjorie W Sloper Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 23 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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