· Private foundation
Mary Alice Arakelian 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 $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 |
| Custom Houses Museum | $20,000 |
| Opportunity Works | $20,000 |
| Our Neighbor's Table | $20,000 |
| YWCA of Greater Newburyport | $15,000 |
| Pettengill House | $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 |
| Marino - College of Dublin | $10,000 |
| McElhinney - University of Michigan | $10,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AJANNA JAQUES HOSPITAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $610k · revenue +10%
- ONOur Neighbors' Table Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $380k · revenue +99%
- 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
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.
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…
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 75 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 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 RUNWAY FOR RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TRITON EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Nourishing the North Shore Inc ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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