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Middlecott Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k219 grants · $360k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $341k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REHEARSAL FOR LIFE | $45,250 |
| MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $45,000 |
| SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION | $45,000 |
| YOUTH FARM PROJECT | $20,500 |
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE | $20,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL | $13,750 |
| CHAPEL HAVEN INC | $12,000 |
| PARTNERS IN HEALTH | $12,000 |
| PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $11,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF STEWART PARK | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 79% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
270 repeat relationships — 182 still active in FY2024, 88 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · $165k · revenue +65%- TCTHE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC6× · 2019–2024 · $162k · revenue +43%
- CICROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE5× · 2019–2024 · $100k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- CHCHATHAM HALLone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -31%
- CSCONSTANCE SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +39% · 34% of their budget
- OHOLIVER HAZARD PERRY RIone grant, 2023 · $55k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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,…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child and Family Services of Newport County and the most unlike its peers is Constance Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts Inc. 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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
259 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. 259 of the 492 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES RIVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSCURRENTS INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds REHEARSAL FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSTANCE SALTONSTALL FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PENOBSCOT MARINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Maine Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL HAVEN SCHLEIFER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Beans Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds MEGUNTICOOK ROWING ↗
- Who funds DEXTER SOUTHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc ↗
- Who funds MISSOULA INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE STORM TRYSAIL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALASKAN AIDS ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds VINALHAVEN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALASKA CHILDREN'S TRUST ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF STEWART PARK 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: Haven Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Ejmp Fund for Philanthropy · Bazarsky Family Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Gruben Charitable Foundation · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · Fisher Charitable 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 Middlecott 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.
- New England Forestry Foundation Inc — 88% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- Willing Hands Enterprises Inc — 17% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Needham Community Council Inc — 2% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Caspar Inc — 1% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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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