· Private foundation
Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay Esq
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| ORCAT INC | $30,000 |
| OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| GUANCASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND | $5,000 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| OCEAN REEF CHAPEL & FELLOWSHIP CENTER | $1,000 |
| WEYMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WESSAGUSSET PARENT COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER | $1,000 |
| MARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE FLORIDA KEYS | $1,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $1,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER CAPE COD & THE ISLANDS | $600 |
| FROST SCHOOL OF MUSIC - UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI | $500 |
| ANIMAL SHELTER MARTHA'S VINEYARD | $300 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NANTUCKET | $300 |
| HIGH SPIRIT COMUNITY FARM | $250 |
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 (FY17–24, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 30% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +67% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
70 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 52 since wound down; 11 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
- CSCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +183%
NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +133%
Funded once
- BIBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALone grant, 2017 · $10k
- C1COVID 19 RELIEFone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FCFROST CHORAL STUDIES PROGRAMone grant, 2021 · $5k
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
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 institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. 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 39 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 121 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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCAT INC ↗
- Who funds GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Hebrew Senior Life Inc ↗
- Who funds SHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds Hearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Isenberg Family Foundation · The John H and Katherine J Weiland Foundation Inc · The Holmes Family Foundation Inc · Copeland Family Foundation Inc · George and Ruth Harms Foundation · The Hajim Family Foundation · Gretchen V & Samuel M Feldman Private Foundation Inc
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 Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- High Spirit Community Farm Inc — 54% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Roxbury Stone House Inc — 29% of income from government
- Italian Home for Children Inc — 29% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Morgan Memorial Goodwill Industries Inc — 17% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Neponset River Watershed Association — 8% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- World Unity Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc — 3% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Services Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sheriff's Meadow Foundation — 2% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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.