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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.

$82k
Granted FY2026still arriving
7
Grants FY2026still arriving
2
States reached
$14k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$306kReligion$90kPhilanthropy$29kEnvironment$23kHousing & Shelter$22kEducation$18k
02FY2026 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $67,593, the rows itemized in this filing. The $82,233 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $14,640 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k3 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$398k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LONGMEADOW CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC$13,850
THE LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER$10,000
SEARLESS-STILLWATER MANOR$10,000
FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL$10,000
TOWN OF WINDHAM SEARLES CHAPEL$8,400
FIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH$7,900
HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND$7,443
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–26) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%BENNETT PUBLIC LIBRARY: $10k → 8%THE LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER: $10k → 10%TOWN OF WINDHAM: $10k → 5%ST JOHN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $10k → 8%THE LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER: $10k → 10%TOWN OF WINDHAM SEARLES CHAPEL: $8k → 5%WHISTLER HOUSE MUSEUM OF ART: $10k → 8%LAWRENCE HISTORY CENTER: $6k → 10%TOWN OF WINDHAM: $8k → 5%FIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH OF LOWELL: $10k → 8%PRESENTATION OF MARY INC: $47k → 10%SEARLESS-STILLWATER MANOR: $10k → 5%WHISTLER HOUSE: $10k → 8%SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY INC: $30k → 10%SALEM HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 5%LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $10k → 8%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $25k → 10%HAMPSTEAD CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $10k → 5%FIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH: $9k → 8%FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $20k → 10%LONGMEADOW CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH UCC: $14k → 5%FIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH: $8k → 8%METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC: $15k → 10%LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $8k → 8%METHUEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $14k → 10%WILLIAM M JEWELL HOUSETOP NOTCH BUILDERS: $10k → 10%FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL: $10k → 10%TOWN OF STONEHAM THE STONEHAM HISTORICAL COMMISSION: $10k → 8%FIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL: $10k → 10%THE METHUEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10k → 10%THE METHUEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $8k → 10%SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGLAND ANTIQUITIES HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 10%HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND: $10k → 10%TATTERSALL FARM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION TRUST: $8k → 10%HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND: $7k → 10%NORTH PARISH OF NORTH ANDOVER: $9k → 10%THE FIRST RELIGOUS SOCIETY OF NEWBURYPORT: $10k → 10%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $7k → 10%EAST PARISH MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY: $10k → 10%EAST PARISH MEETING HOUSE: $9k → 10%ROCKS VILLAGE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $8k → 10%ROCKS VILLAGE MEMORIAL ASSSOCIATION: $7k → 10%ROCKS VILLAGE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $7k → 10%EAST PARISH MEETING HOUSE: $5k → 10%LOWELL'S BOAT SHOP AND MUSEUM: $10k → 10%ST AUGUSTINE PARISH: $10k → 10%CORPUS CHRISTI PARISH: $7k → 10%THE HOUSE OF THE SEVEN GABLES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION: $9k → 10%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.
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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$310k · 10 repeat orgs$245k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +102% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2026, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
26

Total granted

$310k
$231k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+102%
0%

Still filing today

30%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25’26
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL
    3× · 2021–2026 · $27k · revenue +102%
  • IC
    Immigrant City Archives
    3× · 2019–2026 · $26k · revenue +38%
  • LP
    LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST
    3× · 2018–2024 · $23k · revenue +202%

Funded once

  • FC
    FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF METHUEN
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • FB
    FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2025 · $20k
  • MM
    METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
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
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

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2
Wayland Historical Society Inc

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.

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3
Lincolnville Historical Society

To preserve collect and digitize the archive of the town of Lincolnville Maine's history ecology flora and fauna

Unclassified
4
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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5
Walpole Historical Society
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6
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

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7
Holliston Historical Society
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8
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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9
Winchester Historical Society
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10
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
11
Sandwich Historical Society
Arts & Culture
12
Massasoit Historical Association of Warren Ri

Preservation of maxwell house, the oldest brick dwelling in warren, ri, and preservation of the history of warren, ri.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Society for the Preservation of New Engl; 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.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY INC: $76,900 · OtherSISTERS OF THE PRESENTATION OF MARY INCFIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCH: $31,875 · OtherFIRST UNITED BAPTIST CHURCHMETHUEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $31,688 · OtherMETHUEN HISTORICAL SOCIETYWINDHAM FIRE DEPARTMENT: $28,400 · OtherWINDHAM FIRE DEPARTMENTFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF METHUEN: $25,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF METHUENEAST PARISH MEETING HOUSE SOCIETY: $23,605 · OtherEAST PARISH MEETING HOUSE SOCIETYROCKS VILLAGE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $21,851 · OtherFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH: $20,000 · OtherFIRST CHURCH CONGREGATIONAL: $20,000 · Other+19 more: $151,740 · Other+19 moreSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $27,443 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR T…METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureMETHUEN MEMOR…Lowell's Maritime Foundation Inc: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLowell's Mari…Lowell Art Association DBA Whistler House Musuem of Art: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLowell Art As…UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH RESTORATION AND PRESERVATION ALLIA: $4,500 · Arts & CultureUNION CONGREG…+1 more: $1,250 · Arts & CultureImmigrant City Archives: $25,750 · EducationLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $22,717 · EnvironmentTATTERSALL FARM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,500 · Philanthropy
Other$431,059Arts & Culture$68,193Education$25,750Environment$22,717Philanthropy$7,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL: $27,443 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetImmigrant City Archives: $25,750 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetLOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST: $22,717 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMETHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSalem Historical Society: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetTHE BENNETT PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BILLERICA: $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetLowell's Maritime Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLowell Art Association DBA Whistler House Musuem of Art: $10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTATTERSALL FARM CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 20% of budgetHAVERHILL HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,250 over 1y, 1.4% 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 SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
  • Who funds Immigrant City Archives ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL PARKS & CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
  • Who funds METHUEN MEMORIAL MUSIC HALL INC ↗
  • Who funds Salem Historical Society ↗
  • 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 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 ↗

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 Methuen Festival of Trees Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Methuen Festival of Trees Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl: 2% of income from government
  • Immigrant City Archives: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1report 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 37 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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