· Private foundation
Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc
TO ADVANCE ACCESS TO EDUCATION THROUGH THE PROVISIONS OF SCHOLARSHIPS & FINANCIAL SUPPORT & TO PROVIDE GRANTS AND SUPPORT TO CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS & EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
Read this first · the figures below need context
95% of Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 5 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 7 organizations, $174k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k5 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $51k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UMASS AMHERST | $100,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL | $11,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| KING BOSTON FUND | $10,000 |
| THE BASE | $10,000 |
| SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORP | $5,000 |
| THE DUNKIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME | $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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.
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 +56% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2021, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- PLPROJECT LEARN INC2× · 2019–2020 · $30k · revenue +155%
GROTON SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +21%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC2× · 2021–2022 · $24k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- UAUMASS AMHERST ISENBERG SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
- UBUMASS BOSTONone grant, 2018 · $15k
Lawrence General Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Lowell General Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Durkin Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The New England Patriots Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LEARN INC ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Durkin Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALEDICTORIAN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LOWELL SUN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds THE FINCA VIGIA FOUNDATION 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Lowell Sun Charities Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · The Saab Family Foundation · DCU for Kids · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Fidelity Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc 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.
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- The Finca Vigia Foundation Inc — 39% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Lowell General Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% 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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