· Private foundation
Mary Alice Arakelian 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 $10k8 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $279k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Newburyport | $200,000 |
| Anna Jaques Hospital | $115,000 |
| Newburyport Education Foundation | $41,821 |
| WBUR | $30,000 |
| Opportunity Works | $20,000 |
| Our Neighbor's Table | $20,000 |
| Custom Houses Museum | $20,000 |
| Pettengill House | $15,000 |
| YWCA of Greater Newburyport | $15,000 |
| Kolman - University of New Hampshir | $14,240 |
| Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,136 |
| Cooper and Gray-William and Mary | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| McElhinney - University of Michigan | $10,000 |
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, $886k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +37% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 7 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- AJANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +14%
- ONOur Neighbors' Table Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +103%
- TPThe Pettengill House Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $255k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- SFSociety for the Development of Arts and Humanitiesone grant, 2017 · $60k
Newburyport Art Association Incone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue -35%- FCFirehouse Center for Artsone grant, 2021 · $30k
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.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To provide community access cable channels and the use of video equipment to residents in and around Newburyport, MA
Newbury College was a challenging undergraduate experience designed to engage students in a career-focused education.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
To promote responsible and sustainable home ownership opportunities for low and moderate income earners by producing comprehensive training and counseling, as well as promoting the use of special mortgage products and down payment…
To establish New Bedford as the leading ocean economy on the East Coast
The mission of the NECC is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share similar academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports.The NECC…
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
To provide services and residential support to individuals with disabilities
The mission of nantucket safe harbor for animals, nisha, is to provide shelter and care for animals in need and to promote animal welfare through humane education, outreach and advocacy.
The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Essex County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amesbury Youth Hockey League Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 75 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 ANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds The Pettengill House Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Newburyport ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Opportunity Works Inc ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL CHARITABLE SOCIETY OF NEWBURYPORT ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Art Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds TRITON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nourishing the North Shore Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER MERRIMACK VALLEY 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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · NAID Foundation · Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Women Inc · George P Bishop Foundation Inc · The Provident Community Charitable Organization Inc · The Frank L Currier Charitable 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 Mary Alice Arakelian 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.
- Opportunity Works Inc — 77% of income from government
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Nourishing the North Shore Inc — 20% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Anna Jaques Hospital Inc — 4% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Newburyport Art Association Inc — 1% 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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