· Private foundation
Mark and Cynthia Ross Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY ADVOCACY GROUP | $25,000 |
| PLENITUD PR | $21,200 |
| ROOT NS | $20,400 |
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $20,000 |
| CAPE ANN MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| RAIN AND ROSE CHARITABLE FUND LLC | $7,325 |
| PINGREE SCHOOL | $6,500 |
| THE JANE STERN LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE REGINALD & DIONNE SMITH FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ST JUDE | $2,500 |
| LEAP FOR EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| EMPOWER AFRICA INC | $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 (FY19–25, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
ROOT NS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $162k · revenue +39%
THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +50%
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +111%
Funded once
- 4I412 INCone grant, 2023 · $10k
- IBInspire By Action Incone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- TCTHE CABOT THEATREone grant, 2020 · $8k
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.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
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…
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Facebook Community Fund. 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 29 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 70 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 ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PINGREE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR CIVIC ACTION ↗
- Who funds PLENITUD INICIATIVAS ECO-EDUCATIVAS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE RAIN AND ROSE CHARITABLE FUND LLC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWERS AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TOGETHER DBA INSIGHT GARDEN PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Inspire By Action Inc ↗
- Who funds LEAP for Education Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WORKING AMERICA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Montserrat College Of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds THE REGINALD & DIONNE SMITH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds Ground Game Fund ↗
- Who funds The Food Project 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: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Kenwood Foundation 7521-Xxxxxx21240 · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · The Kneisel Foundation Inc · Rogers Family Foundation · Bertolon Family 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 Mark and Cynthia Ross Family Charitable Trust 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.
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Acord Inc — 10% of income from government
- Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
- Wellspring House Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- Rockport Music Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montserrat College of Art Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Three Sisters Garden Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.