· Private foundation
Pptr II Foundation Inc
Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Pptr II Foundation Inc’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 16 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k24 grants · $26k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $200,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $100,000 |
| BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $100,000 |
| TRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONCORD-CARLISLE COMMUNITY CHEST | $2,100 |
| CAMP HALE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
| WHOLE VILLAGE GRANITE UNITED WAY | $1,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $1,000 |
| BALLET VERO BEACH | $1,000 |
| PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL UCC CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SPEAR HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| EMERSON HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| COMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–18, $300) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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 +112% since the first grant, against +60% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- CCCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +112%
- BVBALLET VERO BEACH INC2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +154%
- EHEMERSON HOSPITAL2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- MPMASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLCone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -11%
- ZMZENO MOUNTAIN FARMone grant, 2017 · $2k
- KMKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -59%
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.
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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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
27 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. 27 of the 44 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.
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- Who funds BALLET VERO BEACH INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds CAMP HALE ALUMINI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
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- Who funds CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
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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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Concord Carlisle Foundation Inc · Rosse Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · The Jaket Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable 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 Pptr II Foundation Inc 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ballet Vero Beach 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.