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Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $115k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth$15,000
College of William & Mary$10,000
Boston College$10,000
Boston University$10,000
George Washington University$10,000
St John's University$10,000
Rochester Institute of Technology$10,000
Northeastern University$10,000
University of Essex - UK$10,000
Emmanuel College$10,000
Gordon College$10,000
University of Massachusetts - Lowell$5,000
Massachusetts College of Art and Design$5,000
Tufts University$5,000
Colby College$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON COLLEGE: $15k → 7%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-Z: $20k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $11k → 12%Emmanuel College: $10k → 16%St John's University: $10k → 13%Rochester Institute of Technology: $10k → 14%George Washington University: $10k → 14%ELON UNIVERSITY: $11k → 13%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%SEATTLE UNIVERSITY: $11k → 9%College of William & Mary: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $16k → 8%NORWICH UNIVERSITY: $10k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $25k → 10%Boston College: $10k → 7%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $20k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $10k → 12%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $10k → 16%St John's University: $10k → 13%Rochester Institute of Technology: $10k → 14%George Washinton University: $10k → 14%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $11k → 14%COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $11k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT-H: $21k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $10k → 11%University of Massachusetts - Dartmouth: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-Z: $11k → 12%WILLIAMS COLLEGE: $10k → 12%Northeastern University: $10k → 16%COLLEGE OF WILLIAM & MARY: $10k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%University of Vermont: $20k → 10%Boston College: $10k → 7%UMASS DARTMOUTH: $10k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-Z: $11k → 12%Emmanuel College: $10k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - R: $11k → 10%DEAN COLLEGE: $15k → 7%UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - DARTMOUTH: $10k → 11%University of Massachusetts - Amherst: $10k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT-E: $11k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - L: $11k → 10%SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $11k → 16%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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
RI
CA
VA
NC
DC
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$882k · 38 repeat orgs$118k to everyone else

38 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
9

Total granted

$882k
$68k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+40%

Still filing today

47%
22%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +12%
  • Williams College
    4× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +51%
  • EMMANUEL COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • SU
    SEATTLE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $11k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - R
    one grant, 2020 · $11k
  • Elon Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +25%
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
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
2
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
3
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
4
Boston Architectural College

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

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5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
7
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
8
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
9
Endicott College

Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.

Education
10
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
11
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
12
Marquette University

As a Catholic, Jesuit university our mission is to search for truth, discover shareknowledge, foster personal professional excellence, promote a life of faith and developleadership expressed in service to others. See Schedule O.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northeastern University; the most unlike its peers is Seattle University. 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

25 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. 25 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
18/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA: $52,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIAUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT: $50,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONTUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-Z: $41,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST-ZUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERST: $30,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS - AMHERSTUniversity of Massachusetts - Dartmouth: $30,000 · OtherUniversity of Massachusetts - DartmouthCollege of William & Mary: $30,000 · OtherCollege of William & MaryUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT-H: $25,500 · OtherUMASS DARTMOUTH: $25,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT - L: $20,500 · OtherTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $20,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF ESSEX: $20,000 · OtherUniversity of Essex - UK: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $183,500 · Other+19 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $45,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGEWilliams College: $40,200 · EducationWilliams CollegeEMMANUEL COLLEGE: $40,000 · EducationEMMANUEL COLLEGETRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $35,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSSMERRIMACK COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationMERRIMACK COLLEGERochester Institute of Technology: $25,000 · EducationRochester Institute of TechnologyTrustees of Tufts College: $22,500 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $21,500 · EducationSUFFOLK UNIVERSITY: $21,500 · EducationUniversity of San Francisco: $20,000 · EducationST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK: $20,000 · EducationNorwich University: $20,000 · EducationDEAN COLLEGE: $20,000 · Education+10 more: $95,500 · Education+10 more
Other$548,000Education$451,200

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

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
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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Williams College ↗
  • Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Rochester Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
  • Who funds BRYANT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Norwich University ↗
  • Who funds DEAN COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Elon University ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗

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.

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary T Lane Foundation Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Norwich University: 14% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College: 11% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 2% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Merrimack College: 2% of income from government
  • Trustees of Clark University: 2% of income from government
  • Stonehill College Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Suffolk University: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College: 0% of income from government
  • Gordon College: 0% of income from government
  • Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.

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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home