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Pptr II Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$426k
Granted FY2018
27
Grants FY2018
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

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

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’17
16
’18

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2018.

Education$1.0MPhilanthropy$403kReligion$29kHealth$10kHuman Services$4kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$3kFood & Nutrition$3kOther$0
02FY2018 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k24 grants · $26k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $400k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$394k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SPEAR HOSPITAL$1,000
CONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY$1,000
COMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH$1,000
UNITED WAY OF INDIAN RIVER COUNTY INC$1,000
EMERSON HOSPITAL$1,000
PLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL UCC CHURCH$1,000
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $100 → 8%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $100 → 8%CONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100 → 8%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

VT
NH
MI
MA
IN
RI
VA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$58k · 16 repeat orgs$15k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +112% since the first grant, against +60% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$58k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+112%
+60%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
HealthArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
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

  • CC
    CONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +112%
  • EH
    EMERSON HOSPITAL
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +76%
  • BV
    BALLET VERO BEACH INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $3k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • MP
    MASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLC
    one grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -21%
  • ZM
    ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • KM
    KIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue -59%
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
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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3
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
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
6
Cambridge College Inc

To provide academically excellent, time-efficient and cost-effective higher education for a diverse population of working adults for whom those opportunities may have been limited or denied.

Education
7
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc

The mission of the university of massachusetts foundation, inc. is to foster and promote the growth, progress and general welfare of the university of massachusetts as stated in the original 1950 articles of organization. the foundation…

Education
10
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
11
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
12
Boston Public Library Fund Inc

The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emerson Hospital; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALBION COLLEGE: $1,005,000 · EducationALBION COLLEGE+3 more: $3,120 · EducationRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $200,000 · PhilanthropyRenaissance Charitable …BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $100,000 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AMERICA CHARITA…+2 more: $4,100 · PhilanthropyFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 · Community ImprovementTRINITARIAN CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $19,600 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $10,060 · OtherPLYMOUTH CONGREGATIONAL UCC CHURCH: $7,000 · OtherSPEAR HOSPITAL: $2,000 · OtherCAMP HALE ALUMINI ASSOCIATION: $2,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY CHURCH OF VERO BEACH: $2,000 · OtherWHOLE VILLAGE GRANITE UNITED WAY: $2,000 · OtherZENO MOUNTAIN FARM: $2,000 · Other+17 more: $6,250 · OtherEMERSON HOSPITAL: $3,000 · HealthMASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLC: $2,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 · HealthFIND THE CAUSE INC: $400 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthBALLET VERO BEACH INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $200 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $100 · Arts & CultureSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $2,050 · EnvironmentSQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION: $300 · Environment
Education$1,008,120Philanthropy$304,100Community Improvement$100,000Other$52,910Health$6,500Arts & Culture$3,300Environment$2,350

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetALBION COLLEGE: $1,005,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRenaissance Charitable Foundation Inc: $200,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CARLISLE FOUNDATION INC: $3,100 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEMERSON HOSPITAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER: $2,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP HALE ALUMINI ASSOCIATION: $2,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS PROSTATE CANCER COALITION INC C/O GREEN ASSOCIATES LLC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCIRCLE PROGRAM: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIPP MASSACHUSETTS INC: $1,120 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIND THE CAUSE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGAINING GROUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPITOL CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATIONS OF AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends For Tomorrow Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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 IncEastern Bank Foundati…Cambridge Savings Cha…Fidelity FoundationZachary and Lindsey G…Concord Carlisle Foun…Rosse Family Charitab…Neil & Anna Rasmussen…The Jaket FoundationAmerican Tower Corpor…New Hampshire Charita…Citizens Charitable F…
Boston Foundation IncMA24.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Pptr II Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pptr II Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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 44 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home