· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k23 grants · $79k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| FOSTER PARROTS LIMITED | $5,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC | $5,000 |
| HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC | $4,000 |
| QUINCY ANIMAL SHELTER | $4,000 |
| WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP | $3,000 |
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 (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 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 1 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 FY2024, 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
- AHAVIAN HAVEN4× · 2021–2024 · $203k · revenue +15% · 26% of their budget
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +766%
ANIMAL RESCUE LEAGUE OF BOSTON4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%
Funded once
MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +49%- SASCITUATE ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2021 · $6k
- FPFOSTER PARROTS LTDone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -15%
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 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.
Provide humane care of abandoned, neglected or abused pets for adoption purposes and to educate the public about the proper care of animals.
To take in, care for, and adopt out unwanted or abandoned domestic animals.
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…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quincy Animal Shelter Inc and 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.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 34 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 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 NANTUCKET SAFE HARBOR FOR ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SCITUATE SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Quincy Animal Shelter Inc ↗
- Who funds HULL SEASIDE ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WINSLOW FARM ANIMAL AWARENESS CORP ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds WHISKA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIVE AND LET LIVE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds GREYHOUND RESCUE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SOCIETY FOR ABANDONED ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH SHORE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Milton Animal League Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds FOSTER PARROTS LTD ↗
- Who funds KENNEBEC VALLEY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Black Feather Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds PHINNEY'S FRIENDS 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: 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
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 Morse Martha Foundation Cs Marshall Esq 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 Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Animal Rescue League of Boston — 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.