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Morse Martha Foundation Cs Marshall Esq at a glance

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Morse Martha Foundation Cs Marshall Esq

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.

$314k
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$200k
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, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$636kCrime & Legal$30kPhilanthropy$1k
02FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$4,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AVIAN HAVEN$200,000
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER$15,000
ANIMAL RESCUE OF BOSTON$10,000
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION$10,000
POPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY$8,000
NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC$7,000
FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC$6,000
NORFOLK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC$6,000
HUMANE SOCIETY LOWELL$5,000
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC$5,000
FOSTER PARROTS LIMITED$5,000
NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC$5,000
QUINCY ANIMAL SHELTER$4,000
HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC$4,000
WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP$3,000
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 (FY22–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC: $6k → 8%FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC: $6k → 8%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$641k · 28 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
6

Total granted

$641k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+49%

Still filing today

75%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
AnimalsCrime & LegalHuman 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

  • AH
    AVIAN HAVEN
    4× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +15% · 26% of their budget
  • NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +766%
  • ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%
  • SA
    SCITUATE ANIMAL SHELTER
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • FP
    FOSTER PARROTS LTD
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -21%
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
Raskels Rescue
Animals
2
Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard Inc

The mission of the Animal Shelter of Marthas Vineyard is to provide shelter, health care, lover and support to all domestic animals until a permanent home is found for them.

Animals
3
Paws and Claws Animal Shelter
Animals
4
Animal Shelter of Northeast Nebraska Inc

Provide humane care of abandoned, neglected or abused pets for adoption purposes and to educate the public about the proper care of animals.

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5
North Kingstown-Exeter Animal Protection League Inc

To take in, care for, and adopt out unwanted or abandoned domestic animals.

Animals
6
Animal Rescue League of New Bedford Inc Dba Humane Society&Shelter-Southcoast

Animal rescue league of new bedford, inc., d/b/a humane society & shelter-southcoast, provides services to reduce the number of homeless pets. the organization provides quarantine services to other rescue organizations bringing animals…

Animals
7
Long Journey to a New Beginning Animal Rescue

Animal rescue

Animals
8
North Bay Animal Services
Animals
9
New England Animal Health Inc
Science & Tech
10
Fur Animal Rescue

Animal rescue organization dedicated to finding homes for animals at the animal shelter. we also provde vet care foster homes, and assistance with homing for special needs animals.

Animals
11
Suffolk Humane Society

The mission of the suffolk humane society is to end euthanasia as a means to control pet overpopulation in suffolk. to acheive this goal, suffolk humane society is focused on adoption, spay/neuter programs, and humane education.

Animals
12
Safe Haven Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quincy Animal Shelter Inc; the most unlike its peers is Whiska House. 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 34 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AVIAN HAVEN: $203,000 · AnimalsAVIAN HAVENNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $60,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INCANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $40,000 · AnimalsANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTONSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 · AnimalsNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 · AnimalsLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 · Animals+14 more: $125,000 · Animals+14 morePOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE SOCIETY: $32,000 · OtherPOPE MEMORIAL HUMANE S…NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $28,000 · OtherNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELT…NORFOLK COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $24,000 · OtherNORFOLK COUNTY HUMANE …FOSTER PARROTS LIMITED: $15,000 · OtherFOSTER PARROTS LIMITEDSHELTARA HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,000 · OtherSHELTARA HUMANE SOCIET…ELAINE CONNERS CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $6,000 · OtherSCITUATE ANIMAL SHELTER: $6,000 · Other+5 more: $12,000 · Other+5 moreMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $30,000 · Crime & LegalFRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC: $18,000 · Human Services
Animals$488,000Other$131,000Crime & Legal$30,000Human Services$18,000

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 budgetAVIAN HAVEN: $203,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $60,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC: $28,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY: $20,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC: $16,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetQuincy Animal Shelter Inc: $16,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetWINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP: $12,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetWHISKA HOUSE: $10,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMilton Animal League Inc: $8,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC: $8,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetGREYHOUND RESCUE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $8,000 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetLIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC: $8,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTH SHORE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFOSTER PARROTS LTD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBlack Feather Rescue Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetKENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC: $3,000 over 3y, 1.3% 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 AVIAN HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST ANIMAL SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds Quincy Animal Shelter Inc ↗
  • Who funds WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP ↗
  • Who funds WHISKA HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
  • Who funds Milton Animal League Inc ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds GREYHOUND RESCUE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH SHORE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FOSTER PARROTS LTD ↗
  • Who funds Black Feather Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds PHINNEY'S FRIENDS INC ↗

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.

Ahimsa FoundationAmica Companies Found…Eastern Bank Foundati…Shirley Shattuck Wind…Copeland Family Found…Red Acre Farm Inc Dba…Bafflin FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…The Pfizer Foundation…Analog Devices Founda…The Bank of America C…Paypal Charitable Giv…
Ahimsa FoundationME15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ahimsa Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Shirley Shattuck Windsor Charitable Trust · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · Red Acre Farm Inc Dba Red Acre Foundation · Bafflin Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund

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 Morse Martha Foundation Cs Marshall Esq funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Morse Martha Foundation Cs Marshall Esq. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Animal Rescue League of Boston: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get 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 · 0–10%
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 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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