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Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$2.0MPhilanthropy$1.1MArts & Culture$1.0MHealth$553kEducation$523kReligion$120kHuman Services$100kAnimals$60kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k8 grants · $210k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
  • $250k+1 grant · $750k
$30,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FORGES FOUNDATION$750,000
PILGRIM SOCIETY$60,000
RI HOSPITAL$50,000
Individual grant recipient$45,000
BLACK FEATHER HORSE RESCUE$30,000
BID PLYMOUTH FAMILY FUND$30,000
WILDLANDS TRUST$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
GRANGE FOUNDATION$20,000
KENYON COLLEGE$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 30% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Howland Family Foundation: $150k → 7%FORGES FOUNDATION: $750k → 8%BRIGHAM AND WOMANS: $200k → 16%WELLS COLLEGE: $60k → 13%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%THE SALVATION ARMY: $50k → 9%FORGES FOUNDATION: $250k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%RI HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $250k → 8%PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE: $100k → 8%RI Hospital: $50k → 14%FORGES FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%RI HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%FORGES FOUNDATION: $200k → 8%President Fellows of Harvard Colleg: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $230k → 16%RI HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%Forges Foundation: $150k → 8%HARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE: $50k → 8%HOWLAND FOUNDATION: $185k → 16%RI HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $150k → 8%FORGES FOUNDATION: $125k → 16%RHODE ISLAND HOSPITAL: $50k → 14%PLIMOTH PLANTATION: $150k → 8%WILDLANDS TRUST: $112k → 8%PILGRIM SOCIETY: $100k → 8%PLIMOUTH PLANTATION: $100k → 8%BID Plymouth: $100k → 8%THE HOWLAND FUND INC: $100k → 8%BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS - PLYMOUTH CA: $100k → 8%Plimoth Plantation: $100k → 8%PILGRIM SOCIETY: $100k → 8%PLIMOTH PLANTATION: $100k → 8%PLYMOUTH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $60k → 8%PILGRIM SOCIETY: $60k → 8%PILGRIM SOCIETY: $60k → 8%PILGRIM SOCIETY: $60k → 8%Wildlands Trust: $50k → 8%PLYMOUTH INDEPENDENT: $50k → 8%PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS: $50k → 8%NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%MASS AUDUBON TIDEMARSH: $50k → 8%Pilgrim Society: $50k → 8%WILDLANDS TRUST: $30k → 8%BID PLYMOUTH FAMILY FUND: $30k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.4M · 22 repeat orgs$870k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
19

Total granted

$5.4M
$850k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

55%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FORGES FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +94% · 56% of their budget
  • PP
    PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC
    6× · 2018–2023 · $525k · revenue +11%
  • TP
    The Pilgrim Society
    7× · 2018–2024 · $455k · revenue +127%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $200k
  • HF
    HOWLAND FAMILY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue +90%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS - PLYMOUTH CA
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
2
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
3
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
5
The New England Foundation
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6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Harvard College Trust
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8
The Langdon Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)

—
10
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
11
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
12
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light; the most unlike its peers is Forges Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 43 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 · OtherROWLAND FOUNDATION INCIndividual grant recipient: $365,216 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRI Hospital: $250,000 · OtherRI HospitalIndividual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOWLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherHOWLAND FAMILY FOUNDATIONBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS - PLYMOUTH CA: $100,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $100,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $100,000 · OtherHARVARD STEM CELL INSTITUTE: $100,000 · OtherPLYMOUTH EDUCATIONAL FUND: $85,000 · Other+16 more: $474,970 · Other+16 moreFORGES FOUNDATION: $1,675,000 · EnvironmentFORGES FOUNDATIONWILDLANDS TRUST INC: $297,200 · EnvironmentWILDLANDS TRUST INCPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $525,000 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET M…The Pilgrim Society: $455,000 · Arts & CultureThe Pilgrim Socie…+2 more: $29,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HOWLAND FUND INC: $500,000 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 · EducationTHE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 · EducationWELLS COLLEGE: $60,000 · EducationKENYON COLLEGE: $31,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationRhode Island Hospital: $100,000 · HealthBattenkill Valley Health Center Inc: $75,000 · Health+1 more: $1,500 · HealthTHE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · Public BenefitNORWELL GRANGE: $45,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,340,186Environment$1,972,200Arts & Culture$1,009,000Philanthropy$500,000Education$387,000Health$176,500Public Benefit$50,000Food & Nutrition$45,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFORGES FOUNDATION: $1,675,000 over 6y, 56% of budgetPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $525,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetTHE HOWLAND FUND INC: $500,000 over 3y, 62% of budgetThe Pilgrim Society: $455,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetROWLAND FOUNDATION INC: $415,000 over 2y, 9.5% of budgetWILDLANDS TRUST INC: $297,200 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRhode Island Hospital: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetBattenkill Valley Health Center Inc: $75,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetWELLS COLLEGE: $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGRANGE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPlymouth 400 Inc: $9,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,023 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CORNERSTONE INSTITUTE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FORGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE HOWLAND FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds The Pilgrim Society ↗
  • Who funds ROWLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds HOWLAND FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rhode Island Hospital ↗
  • Who funds THE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WELLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE NATHAN HALE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWELL GRANGE ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds GRANGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds Plymouth 400 Inc ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON 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.

Roberta M Childs Char…Henry Hornblower Fund…Gardinor-Prunaret Fou…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Roberta M Childs Charitable FoundationMA26.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation · Henry Hornblower Fund Inc · Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Plymouth 400 Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc: 33% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Wildlands Trust Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Pilgrim Society: 1% of income from government
  • Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 43 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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