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Merrimac Charitable Trust II
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ITHACA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ADVOCATES INC | $5,000 |
| CURE ALZHEIMERS FUND | $3,000 |
| THE DOVER CHURCH | $2,500 |
| SAFE COALITION | $2,500 |
| TANZANIAN CHILDREN'S FUND | $2,000 |
| CAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL (CCLCS) | $2,000 |
| MILTON ACADEMY (THE MOUNTAIN SCHOOL) | $1,500 |
| JOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC | $1,500 |
| TRANSLATINA NETWORK INC | $1,250 |
| LGBTQ CENTER OF DURHAM | $1,250 |
| AUGUSTA FOOD BANK | $1,125 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $1,000 |
| SANTA BARBARA CHANNEL KEEPER | $1,000 |
| CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
46 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- AIADVOCATES INC9× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +170%
- CCCAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +12%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $19k · revenue +224%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +48%
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL CANCER CENTER AT NEWTON - WELLESLEYone grant, 2021 · $2k
- TDTHE DANCE PRISM INCone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to enhancing international peace and security in the 21st century, thereby retaining its focus on nuclear weapons but expanding to include other present emerging security threats.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
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.
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…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advocates Inc and the most unlike its peers is The North Carolina Public Radio Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
83 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. 83 of the 111 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 ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD LIGHTHOUSE CHARTER SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE WELLNESS COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE COALITION INCORPORTED ↗
- Who funds HOUSING ASSISTANCE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds SARCOMA FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD OCEAN COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MADISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHADY HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JOG YOUR MEMORY 5K INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LOVE LIGHT AND MELODY ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY INC ↗
- Who funds The LGBTQ Center of Durham Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds New York City Master Chorale Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds The Pettengill House Inc ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Duke University · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of the Greater Triangle Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston 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 Merrimac Charitable Trust II 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.
- Cape Cod Village Inc — 100% of income from government
- Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts Inc — 74% of income from government
- Advocates Inc — 66% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Housing Assistance Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Safe Coalition Incorported — 6% of income from government
- Hilltop Montessori School Inc — 5% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chill Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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