· Private foundation
Marr Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,150 |
| SAINT ROCK HAITI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| CROHN'S AND COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $1,000 |
| 2022 CATHOLIC APPEAL | $1,000 |
| ARCHBISHOP WILLIAMS HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| GAVIN FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FAMILY REACH | $500 |
| MILTON ANIMAL LEAGUE | $500 |
| RON BURTON TRAINING VILLAGE | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $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 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +53% since the first grant, against +43% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
As a founding hospital in the brown university health system, rih is committed to its mission: delivering health with care.
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
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. as a network its purpose is to create healthier communities…
To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.
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 or hospital) has four facilities, beverly hospital,…
MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…
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 associated physicians of harvard medical faculty physicians at beth israel deaconess medical center, inc. d/b/a longwood specialty physicians (lsp) is to provide world class clinical care and medical instruction and to…
Medical care of boston management corp d/b/a beth israel lahey health primary care a/k/a affiliated physicians group (apg) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with beth israel lahey health (bilh) and its hospitals…
How this is measured
36 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. 36 of the 104 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marr Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marr Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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