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Northeast Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$20k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
22
Grants FY2025
22
Organizations funded FY2024
18%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$550
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,500
Organizations funded a year
20 to 35
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$252k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Northeast Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving22$20k9%
FY202422$20k18%
FY202320$20k10%
FY202222$25k9%
FY202122$22k18%
FY202023$200k13%
FY201935$100kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$255kReligion$28kHealth$27kArts & Culture$16kHuman Services$12kRecreation & Sports$11kEnvironment$8kInternational$7kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
KY
MD
SC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($78k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Northeast Charitable Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiss Porter's School Inc: $183,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Westminster School Inc: $20,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMartha's Vineyard Museum Inc: $13,900 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetLake Forest College: $12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGroton School: $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Womens Exchange Inc: $9,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetChilton Club: $8,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEndicott College: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Girls Foundation of Tanzania: $6,600 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetApplewild School Incorporated: $5,800 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSheriff's Meadow Foundation: $5,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Health Initiatives Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Thayer Academy Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSt Mark's School of Southborough Inc: $3,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCare Dimensions Inc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetIsland Housing Trust Corporation: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEagle Hill Foundation of Massachusettsinc: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Keewaydin Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKing School Inc: $2,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetThe Epiphany School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetButler Hospital Foundation: $2,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetGarrison Forest School Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Quebec-Labrador Foundation Inc: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBeverly Farm Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFrontier Nursing University Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Capital Good Fund: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFeatherstone Center for the Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWilliams College: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLynn University Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircuit Arts Inc: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCraft Emergency Relief Fund Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Lawrence University: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA Friend of Jack Rescue: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN14.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

Compare Northeast Charitable Trust with peer funders

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How do I get to Northeast Charitable Trust?

Find your warmest path to Northeast 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.

About Northeast Charitable Trust

How much does Northeast Charitable Trust give?
Northeast Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 35 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Northeast Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (66%), Religion (7%), Health (7%).
Who are Northeast Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Miss Porter's School Inc ($183k), Trustees of Westminster School Inc ($20k), Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc ($14k).
Does Northeast Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Northeast Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Northeast Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Northeast Charitable Trust based?
Northeast Charitable Trust is based in MA.

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 52 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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