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Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
38%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
18 to 21
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$3.3M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving23$175k30%
FY202421$170k38%
FY202319$175k47%
FY202220$191k30%
FY202120$149k30%
FY202018$139kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$999k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
NC
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston College$45,00040%
Williams College$40,20040%
Emmanuel College$40,00040%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$35,00040%
Merrimack College$25,00040%
Rochester Institute of Technology$25,00030%
Trustees of Tufts College$22,50040%
Bryant University$21,50020%
Suffolk University$21,50030%
University of San Francisco$20,00040%
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All grantees of Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Trustees of Boston College$45,00040%
Williams College$40,20040%
Emmanuel College$40,00040%
Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross$35,00040%
Merrimack College$25,00040%
Rochester Institute of Technology$25,00030%
Trustees of Tufts College$22,50040%
Bryant University$21,50020%
Suffolk University$21,50030%
University of San Francisco$20,00040%
St John's University New York$20,00020%
Trustees of Boston University$20,00020%
Norwich University$20,00030%
Dean College$20,00020%
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc$15,00030%
Seattle University$11,00010%
Elon University$10,50010%
Northeastern University$10,00010%
Gordon College$10,00010%
The Trustees of the Smith College$10,00020%
Stonehill College Inc$10,00020%
Marist University$10,00020%
The George Washington University$10,00010%
University of Massachusetts$10,0002n/a
Trustees of Clark University$5,00010%
The President and Trustees of Colby College$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($507k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTrustees of Boston College: $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $40,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEmmanuel College: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of the College of the Holy Cross: $35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMerrimack College: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRochester Institute of Technology: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBryant University: $21,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSuffolk University: $21,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSt John's University New York: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Boston University: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNorwich University: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDean College: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWentworth Institute of Technology Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSeattle University: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElon University: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNortheastern University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGordon College: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStonehill College Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarist University: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe George Washington University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Clark University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 25.

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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.

Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCA7.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

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About Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust

How much does Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust give?
Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust reported 23 grants totaling $175,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 21 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (100%).
Who are Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston College ($45k), Williams College ($40k), Emmanuel College ($40k).
Does Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust based?
Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 54 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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