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Millicent C Starr Charitable Tr

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.

$145k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$560kRecreation & Sports$250kEducation$95kHealth$24kAnimals$9kFood & Nutrition$5kHousing & Shelter$3kEnvironment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$19,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC$50,000
JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE$50,000
THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION$20,000
ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY$19,500
NICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM$3,000
BEACON HILL GARDEN CLUB$1,000
WREN$1,000
ISABELLA STEWART GARDEN MUSEUM$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.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$899k · 12 repeat orgs$51k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
15

Total granted

$899k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+30%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthAnimalsHuman ServicesOther
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

  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
    2× · 2021–2022 · $151k · revenue +36%
  • TC
    THE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $99k · revenue +14%
  • TB
    THE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $60k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +63%
  • TT
    THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +30%
  • ESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +7%
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
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
3
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
4
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
5
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).

Arts & Culture
6
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
7
The Trustees of Reservations

Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.

Environment
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Esplanade Association Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational 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

24 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. 24 of the 30 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $300,000 · OtherJEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC+12 more: $15,500 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $150,900 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTSTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $99,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATI…+5 more: $11,500 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $247,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN …+1 more: $3,000 · EnvironmentTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $60,000 · EducationTHE BEAVER…ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 · EducationST LAWRENC…THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE: $5,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTE…RAR-MA INC: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $2,000 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $22,700 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 · AnimalsPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$315,500Arts & Culture$261,400Environment$250,500Education$89,500Health$22,700Animals$9,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH ARTS COLLABORATIVE INC: $300,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $247,500 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $150,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CULTURAL LANDSCAPE FOUNDATION: $99,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BEAVER COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $22,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY: $19,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAR-MA INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNICHOLS HOUSE MUSEUM INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBEACON HILL GARDEN CLUB: $3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESPLANADE ASSOCIATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE VENICE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSummer Stars Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL EATING DISORDERS ASSOCIATION: $500 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.

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.

Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncNational Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston IncMA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Millicent C Starr Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Millicent C Starr Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation: 1% of income from government
  • Friends of the Public Garden Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Emerson College: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.
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Find your warmest path to Millicent C Starr Charitable Tr through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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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