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Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati
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.
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 $10k26 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $32,000 |
| GENERAL HENRY KNOX MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CONCORD MUSEUM | $12,000 |
| REVOLUTION 250 COALITION | $11,500 |
| SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI | $7,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $6,000 |
| THE PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| COL BAILEY 2ND | $5,000 |
| MOUNT GULIAN SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| BATTLE RHODE ISLAND ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK | $4,500 |
| OLD NORTH ILLUMINATED | $4,500 |
| COMMONWELATH MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL FOR SOCIAL STUDIES | $3,900 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% of your 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 33% of Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +43% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 11 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- TSTHE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI8× · 2017–2024 · $307k · revenue +13%
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +364%- PRPAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION8× · 2017–2024 · $46k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
- AAAMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $8k · revenue -41%
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.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
Study, collect and preserve the history of Wayland, Massachusetts and its people: to preserve the building and the artifacts owned by the Society, and to disseminate information to promote the traditions and history or Wayland.
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
The society was established for the purpose of preserving local history, serving as a community historical center and promoting community involvement within the town of andover, massachusetts
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Soc of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Ma and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Lafayette. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 56 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 68 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 THE SOCIETY OF THE CINCINNATI ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT GULIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM'S WAY HERITAGE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HINGHAM HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds The General Henry Knox Museum ↗
- Who funds The Cambridge Historical Society ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE COMMONWEALTH MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Freedom Trail Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds The Alden Kindred of America Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF LAFAYETTE ↗
- Who funds MINUTE MAN NATIONAL PARK ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OLD NORTH ILLUMINATED INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTONIAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COUNCIL FOR THE SOCIAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Eastern Bank Foundation · Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Ma · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Freedom Trail Foundation Inc · George B Henderson Foundation Jh5090 · Felicia Fund Inc
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 Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati 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.
- Freedom's Way Heritage Association Inc — 100% of income from government
- Old North Illuminated Inc — 94% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Sudbury Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association — 1% of income from government
- Minute Man National Park Assoc Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Alden Kindred of America Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Shirley-Eustis House Association — 0% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc — 0% of income from government
- Freedom Trail Foundation 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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