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Marr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k21 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $29,973 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $6,500 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $6,250 |
| OBLATES OF THE VIRGIN MARY | $2,750 |
| BERKLEY CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| MARY ANN BRETT FOOD PANTRY - ST TERESA OF CALCUTTA PARISH | $1,250 |
| ST AGATHA | $1,150 |
| SAINT ROCK HAITI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| 2022 CATHOLIC APPEAL | $1,000 |
| BOSTON PRESERVATION ALLIANCE | $500 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $500 |
| FAMILY REACH | $500 |
| MILTON ANIMAL LEAGUE | $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 (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +53% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $64k · revenue +108%
PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +49%- SMSt Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc3× · 2019–2023 · $8k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- RRRODMAN RIDE FOR KIDS BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTERone grant, 2017 · $32k
- BRBGCD RODMAN RIDE 2021one grant, 2021 · $24k
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER- THE ONE CAMPAIGNone grant, 2020 · $20k
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.
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.
Tertiary care academic medical center
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
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…
To provide the highest quality specialty medical care to patients with diabetes and diabetes related conditions and to search for a cure.
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…
Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…
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…
The mission of northeast behavioral health corporation d/b/a beth israel lahey health behavioral services' (bilhbs) is to provide personal, compassionate, state-of-the-art, integrated behavioral healthcare that makes a difference in the…
The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bethany Health Care Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Braintree July 4th Celebration Comm. 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 43 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) — 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.
36 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. 36 of the 104 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rodman For Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL - MILTON ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds Ron Burton Training Village Inc ↗
- Who funds VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · South Shore Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Shaughnessy Charitable Trust · The Flatley Foundation · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
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 Marr Charitable 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.
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Gavin Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- South Boston Community Health Center in — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton — 2% of income from government
- Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/a Zoo New England — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% 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.
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