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Mgs & Rrs Charitable Trust at a glance

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Mgs & Rrs Charitable Trust

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.

$166k
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$433kHealth$227kArts & Culture$212kFood & Nutrition$90kCivil Rights$17kPhilanthropy$9kCommunity Improvement$8kYouth Development$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k55 grants · $65k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$25,500
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$20,000
MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE$10,000
BOSTON COLLEGE$10,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$10,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS$8,500
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER$5,000
UNCOMMON SCHOOLS$5,000
BELMONT HILL SCHOOL$5,000
PARK SCHOOL$5,000
THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION$5,000
NO KID HUNGRY$2,500
WGBH EDUCATION FOUNDATION$2,500
MILTON ACADEMY$2,500
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 75% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $1k → 8%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%GOOD SHEPHERD COMMUNITY CARE: $500 → 8%SQUASH HAVEN: $1k → 12%SQUASH HAVEN: $250 → 12%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%SQUASH HAVEN: $250 → 12%SQUASH HAVEN: $250 → 12%SQUASHHAVEN: $250 → 12%SQUASHHAVEN: $250 → 12%SQUASHHAVEN: $250 → 12%DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON: $250 → 16%BEACON HILL VILLAGE: $500 → 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
WA
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
MO
VA
MD
DE
NC
SC
DC
HI
LA
FL
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$888k · 86 repeat orgs$172k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

86 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 44 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
135

Total granted

$888k
$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+18%

Still filing today

62%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionOther
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

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +99%
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    7× · 2017–2025 · $113k · revenue +29%
  • SHARE OUR STRENGTH
    8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • BC
    BIDMC- CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION FUND
    one grant, 2019 · $33k
  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY GIFTS - INTERNET
    one grant, 2023 · $20k
  • YA
    YALE ALUMNI FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
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
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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2
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
3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
5
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
7
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
8
New York Botanical Garden

The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…

Environment
9
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
10
Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum

The mission of the boston athenaeum is to engage all who seek knowledge by making accessible our library's collections and spaces, thereby inspiring reflection, discourse, creative expression, and joy.

Education
11
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
12
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations; the most unlike its peers is Harvard Club of Boston Foundation. 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

105 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. 105 of the 231 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/105
Grantees still filing
76/105
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YALE UNIVERSITY: $139,410 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYYALE UNIVERSITY: $73,332 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $72,300 · OtherSHARE OUR STRENGTHBIDMC- CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION FUND: $33,333 · OtherBIDMC- CAMPUS TRANSFORMATION FUNDYALE UNIVERSITY: $20,582 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY GIFTS - INTERNET: $20,000 · Other+129 more: $204,256 · Other+129 moreBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $176,666 · HealthBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS…BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INC: $10,000 · Health+12 more: $15,215 · Health+12 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $113,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE AR…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $29,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY O…WGBH Educational Foundation: $7,630 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $17,243 · Arts & Culture+18 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $35,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES…TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $22,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF …BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $14,500 · EducationBELMONT HILL…MILTON ACADEMY: $11,250 · EducationMILTON ACADE…PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10,450 · EducationPARK SCHOOL …UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $5,750 · Education+15 more: $17,555 · Education+15 moreANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,500 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 · Civil RightsSQUASH HAVEN INC: $3,593 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesBEACON HILL VILLAGE INC: $500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $250 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON INC: $250 · Human ServicesNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,000 · PhilanthropyCharity Bridge Fund: $500 · Philanthropy
Other$563,213Health$201,881Arts & Culture$166,873Education$116,505Civil Rights$10,000Human Services$6,093Philanthropy$5,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC: $176,666 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $113,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $72,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $29,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC: $14,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $11,250 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION: $10,450 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $7,630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $6,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTURY ASSOCIATION: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC: $5,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCULTIVATING COMMUNITY: $3,825 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $3,730 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSQUASH HAVEN INC: $3,593 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,298 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $3,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELIOT COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $2,550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN AREA TRAILS INC: $2,510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $2,350 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LITERARY CLASSICS OF THE US INC D/B/A LIBRARY OF AMERICA: $2,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE FOR A NEW AUDIENCE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC: $1,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJAPAN SOCIETY INC: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetST BOTOLPH CLUB FOUNDATION: $1,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC: $1,550 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNETWORK FOR GOOD: $1,258 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Opera Association Inc: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIQUE PROJECTS INC: $1,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatapult Opera Inc: $1,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATES OF BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $1,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNYU LANGONE HOSPITALS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScalawag: $1,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOLLEGE FOR EVERY STUDENT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON SQUARE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COVE NURSING FACILITIES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 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 BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds BELMONT HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH PHARMACY INC ↗
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTURY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNCOMMON SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CULTIVATING COMMUNITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Middlecott FoundationHighland Street Conne…Cummings Foundation G…Kershaw Foundation Ch…Susanna Porter & Jame…Alchemy FoundationEdmund & Betsy Cabot …Lovett-Woodsum Founda…The Lynch Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA29.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Middlecott Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund · Alchemy Foundation · Edmund & Betsy Cabot Charitable Fndn · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · The Lynch Foundation

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 Mgs & Rrs Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mgs & Rrs Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Beacon Hill Village Inc: 28% of income from government
  • Hospice of the Good Shepherd Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Perkins School for the Blind: 7% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Youth Advocacy Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital: 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 231 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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