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Nanny Chisholmwinthrop Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$628k
Granted FY2022
6
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$179k
Largest
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172022.

Philanthropy$359kEnvironment$184kHealth$55kArts & Culture$2kOther$145k
02FY2022 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$89,674
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY$179,350
BOSTON FOUNDATION INC$89,675
ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$89,674
THE WINTHROP FOUNDATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA$89,674
ELM GROVE FOUNDATION$89,674
GRANT AND HOPE WINTHROP FAMILY FOUNDATION$89,674
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 74% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HIGH SPIRIT FARMS: $3k → 8%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $90k → 10%BOSTON FOUNDATION INC: $90k → 16%GRANT AND HOPE WINTHROP FAMILY FOUNDATION: $90k → 17%PIEDMONT MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%THE WINTHROP FOUNDATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA: $90k → 27%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $30k → 11%BOYLSTON PLACE FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 16%MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL: $25k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $25k → 16%MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL ALS FUND: $3k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $20k → 16%ELM GROVE FOUNDATION: $90k → 16%SEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$284k · 3 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

$284k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+88%
+312%

Still filing today

67%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $269k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • AL
    AIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2017–2022 · $184k · revenue +88%
  • MD
    MOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL
    2× · 2020–2021 · $55k · revenue +39%
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    2× · 2018–2019 · $45k

Funded once

  • PM
    PIEDMONT MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL ALS FUND
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • HS
    HIGH SPIRIT FARMS
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Boston Foundation
Philanthropy
2
Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc
3
The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation
4
Eastham Conservation Foundation Inc
5
Berkshire Foundation
Philanthropy
6
The Grant Foundation
Philanthropy
7
Cohasset Conservation Trust Inc
8
The Winchester Foundation
9
Easton Foundation
Philanthropy
10
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education
11
Milford Historical Society
12
The Elsevier Foundation
Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Essex County Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Grant and Hope Winthrop Family 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boston Foundation Inc — $89,675 · PhilanthropyBoston Foundation IncTHE ELM GROVE FOUNDATION — $89,674 · PhilanthropyTHE ELM GROVE FOUNDATIONESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $89,674 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCTHE GRANT AND HOPE WINTHROP FAMILY FOUNDATION — $89,674 · PhilanthropyTHE GRANT AND HOPE WINTHROP FAMILY FOUNDATIONAIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $184,350 · EnvironmentAIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY INCTHE WINTHROP FOUNDATION OF ATHENS GEORGIA — $89,674 · OtherTHE WINTHROP FOUNDATIO…MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL — $45,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL …PIEDMONT MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Other+2 more — $5,000 · OtherMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $55,000 · HealthSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & CultureBOYLSTON PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$358,697Environment$184,350Other$144,674Health$55,000Arts & Culture$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAIKEN LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $184,350 over 2y, 23% of budgetBoston Foundation Inc — $89,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $89,674 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT ISLAND HOSPITAL — $55,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEARS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOYLSTON PLACE FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA4.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Nanny Chisholmwinthrop Family Charitable Trust 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 2%
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc2% of income from government
  • Boston Foundation Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to Nanny Chisholmwinthrop Family Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Nanny Chisholmwinthrop Family Charitable Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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