· Public charity
Methuen Festival of Trees Inc
Since 1994, the methuen festival of trees has contributed to historic preservation projects with nearly 60 preservation partners in 25 communities.
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.
The 4 grants below total $49,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $53,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $4,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $20,000 |
| SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL | $10,000 |
| THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +102% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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
- LPLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST3× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +202%
- SFSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL2× · 2021–2024 · $20k · revenue +102%
- ICImmigrant City Archives2× · 2019–2022 · $16k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF METHUENone grant, 2017 · $25k
- MMMETHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- SASaint Augustine Schoolone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna
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.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
Preservation of maxwell house, the oldest brick dwelling in warren, ri, and preservation of the history of warren, ri.
To collect and preserve historical material and artifacts, to encourage research into local history and to offer historical education opportunities to the community
To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Preservation of New Engl and the most unlike its peers is Immigrant City Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 36 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 LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
- Who funds METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC ↗
- Who funds THE BENNETT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BILLERICA ↗
- Who funds Lowell's Maritime Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Lowell Art Association DBA Whistler House Musuem of Art ↗
- Who funds Salem Historical Society ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TATTERSALL FARM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION ALLIA ↗
- Who funds HAVERHILL 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.
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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 Methuen Festival of Trees Inc 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.
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Immigrant City Archives — 1% 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.