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Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071
Its FY2024 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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $349k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $349,306 |
| COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY | $202,921 |
| THE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH | $150,000 |
| CHARLESTON JAZZ ACADEMY | $120,000 |
| DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST | $110,576 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $103,076 |
| WESTERN HEALTH CONNECT | $83,842 |
| PUTNAM HOSPITAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $80,248 |
| PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC | $75,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING FBMS | $75,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM | $50,076 |
| PEOPLE INCORPORATED | $50,000 |
| GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE | $36,101 |
| SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA | $35,000 |
| WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY | $35,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
- CSCOLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY7× · 2018–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +10%
- EUEmory University3× · 2019–2021 · $1.2M · revenue +54%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc4× · 2018–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +98%
Funded once
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $95k · revenue +34%- FRFall River Historical Societyone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -64%
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +41%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is People Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 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. 75 of the 98 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 COLD SPRING HARBOR LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF CHARLESTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREATER FALL RIVER RE-CREATION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds South Carolina Aquarium ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANLEY STREET TREATMENT AND RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Putnam Hospital Center ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPOLETO FESTIVAL USA INC ↗
- Who funds PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PAWLING FREE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds The Girls School of Austin Inc ↗
- Who funds PHOENIX SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TIBETAN NUNS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST WILDERNESS TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WOONASQUATUCKET VALLEY COMMUNITY BUILD INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY HOSPITAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM ↗
- Who funds Putnam Hospital Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLOUDS HILL VICTORIAN HOUSE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds ROSEMONT COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CHILD JESUS ↗
- Who funds IYRS SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGY & TRADES INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER LEWES FOUNDATION ↗
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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Amica Companies Foundation · Thomas a Rodgers Jr Family Foundation · Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Van Sloun Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · Henry & Sylvia Yaschik Foundation Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Champlin Foundation
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 Oliver & Jennie Donaldson Char(1071 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.
- People Incorporated — 85% of income from government
- Stanley Street Treatment and Resources Inc — 23% of income from government
- Dennison Memorial Community Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Washington County Museum of Fine Arts — 2% of income from government
- Fall River Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Greater Lewes Foundation — 1% 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.
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