· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE BASE | $10,000 |
| THE NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| KING BOSTON FUND | $10,000 |
| CAMP HARBOR VIEW | $5,000 |
| SAINT COLUMBKILLE PARTNERSHIP SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORP | $5,000 |
| THE DUNKIN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ACADEMY OF NOTRE DAME | $2,500 |
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 (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 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 +56% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +44%
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.
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How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 39 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 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 THE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION 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 LOWELL SUN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN IRELAND FUND (DBA THE IRELAND FUNDS AMERICA/THE IRELAND FUNDS) ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CHILDREN'S ACTION CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds THE FINCA VIGIA 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marty Meehan Educational Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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