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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.

$86k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$274kEnvironment$184kHealth$88kAnimals$67kPhilanthropy$56kArts & Culture$33kPublic Safety & Disaster$16kInternational$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $65k
$250
Median grant
6
States reached
$926k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL$35,000
ORCAT INC$30,000
GUANCASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND$5,000
OCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER$5,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$2,500
OCEAN REEF CHAPEL & FELLOWSHIP CENTER$1,000
WEYMOUTH PUBLIC SCHOOLS - WESSAGUSSET PARENT COUNCIL$1,000
ISLAND HOUSING TRUST$1,000
THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND EDUCATION CENTER$1,000
MARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE FLORIDA KEYS$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
PAN MASS CHALLENGE$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HOSPICE OF FREDRICK COUNTY: $100 → 6%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100 → 8%PINE STREET INN: $100 → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $300 → 16%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $200 → 16%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $100 → 16%THE KEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $500 → 13%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $100 → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $100 → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $100 → 16%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $1k → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 7%MARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES: $250 → 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 7%ELIZABETH STONE HOUSE: $1k → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $350 → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $250 → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $250 → 16%THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $250 → 16%HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS: $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
AZ
AR
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$427k · 70 repeat orgs$74k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +67% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

70
38

Total granted

$427k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+3%

Still filing today

69%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • CS
    CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $158k · revenue +183%
  • NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC
    5× · 2018–2023 · $21k · revenue +133%

Funded once

  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • BH
    Baptist Health Foundation Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +221%
  • C1
    COVID 19 RELIEF
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
2
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
3
The Trustees of Reservations

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.

Environment
4
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
5
Wildlands Trust Inc

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…

Environment
6
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
7
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Island Housing Trust Corporation

To own and lease land for the purpose of developing, building and maintaining affordable housing on martha's vineyard, massachusetts.

Housing & Shelter
10
Marin Humane Society

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.

Animals
11
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

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.

Health
12
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation; 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.
04the grantee network

69 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
56/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $235,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENN…+1 more: $1,750 · EducationCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $158,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD B…GUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $30,000 · EnvironmentGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVAT…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC+5 more: $9,956 · EnvironmentMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL HOSPITALCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · OtherCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDAT…BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $10,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS H…THE KOHN FOUNDATION: $6,000 · OtherOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $13,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL D…+79 more: $86,700 · Other+79 moreORCAT INC: $30,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $25,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,100 · Animals+5 more: $2,600 · AnimalsOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $45,700 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc: $10,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $300 · PhilanthropyOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,250 · Arts & CultureMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $1,100 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $400 · Arts & CultureAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 · Human ServicesKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,350 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,350 · Human ServicesROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $900 · Human Services+2 more: $600 · Human Services
Education$236,750Environment$218,456Other$163,950Animals$60,700Philanthropy$56,000Arts & Culture$27,750Human Services$17,700

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $235,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $158,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetOCEAN REEF COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $45,700 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetORCAT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGUANACASTE DRY FOREST CONSERVATION FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF CULTURAL CENTER INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE ISRAEL DEFENSE FORCES: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSHERIFF'S MEADOW FOUNDATION: $7,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC: $5,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBaptist Health Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of Martha's Vineyard Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC: $2,210 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHearts and Noses Hospital Clown Troupe Inc: $1,950 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHIGH SPIRIT COMMUNITY FARM INC: $1,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetPERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND: $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,650 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKEYS CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC: $1,350 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $1,350 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $1,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMARTHA'S VINEYARD MUSEUM INC: $1,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRETINA GLOBAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE GENESIS FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF THE FLORIDA KEYS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetROXBURY STONE HOUSE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC: $900 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC: $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNeponset River Watershed Association: $876 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC: $810 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetITALIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $630 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD UNITY INC: $600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetIT HAPPENED TO ALEXA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWILD OCEANS INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Baptist Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Martha's Vineyard 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 THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncMA29× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay Esq funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Paul W Dimaura Charitable Trust Attn Edward F Fay Esq. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 290%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
29get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 121 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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