· Private foundation
Michele E Dufault Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LABORATORY SAFETY INSTITUTE | $25,000 |
| WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION | $13,500 |
| NORTH AND SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| SUMMER STARS CAMP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC | $10,000 |
| NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $7,500 |
| ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY | $6,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $6,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF GREATER LOWELL | $5,000 |
| SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS | $5,000 |
| BACK ON MY FEET BOSTON | $5,000 |
| SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS | $5,000 |
| PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM INC | $1,000 |
| SCITUATE PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $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 (FY24–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WHWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION7× · 2019–2025 · $95k · revenue +32%
- TLTHE LABORATORY SAFETY INSTITUTE INC7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +4%
NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL6× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TFTIMBERLINE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +101%
Safe Passagegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +101%
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The woodward school honors and cultivates each student's academic and personal potential to enrich the world with courage and creativity. woodward has been educating and empowering young women in grades 6-12 since 1894.
The organizations mission is to inspire all girls to be strong,smart, and bold, through research-based, innovative, and educational programs and activities.
Stoneleigh-burnham school is an academic community that fosters an international perspective. we inspire girls to pursue meaningful lives based on honor, respect, and intellectual curiosity. each student is challenged to discover her best…
Girls global academy public charter school (gga) was incorporated in the district of columbia in june 2019 and opened its doors in august 2020 fostering pathways to lead and learn. as an all-girls public charter high school, gga ignites…
Emma willard school is a privately operated school for girls in grades 9 through 12 for boarding and day students.
To inspire girls and young women to become game changers and ethical leaders who forge an equitable, sustainable and joyous future.
The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
Washington school for girls ignites the joyful pursuit of learning and inspires lives of faith-filled purpose, leadership, and service by educating girls in underserved areas through an academically challenging education. an extended day…
Educateandinspireeconomicallydisadvantagedgirlsfromthenewbedford, massachusetts area.empower girls with valuable life skills and a mindset of achievement by providing a safe, supportive, and academically challenging environment.
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
The waldorf school of lexington nurtures each child's curiosity, ingenuity, and love of learning so that they can meet the future with wonder, confidence, and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Club for Girls Inc and the most unlike its peers is Timberline Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds THE LABORATORY SAFETY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Summer Stars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH & SOUTH RIVERS WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE CLUB FOR GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
- Who funds PENIKESE ISLAND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BACK ON MY FEET ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds TIMBERLINE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Passage ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HOLLY HILL FARM 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: Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Michele E Dufault Foundation 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Friends of Holly Hill Farm Inc — 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.
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