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Quigley & Heffernan Family Charitable Trust at a glance

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Quigley & Heffernan Family Charitable Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$236k
Granted FY2025still arriving
22
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$756kScience & Tech$310kHealth$284kEnvironment$118kReligion$52kArts & Culture$51kYouth Development$15kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$0
02FY2025 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $214k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$929k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION$35,000
DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL (DBMS)$32,500
DUXBURY RURAL AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY$27,500
BOSTON COLLEGE$25,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC$20,000
MIT$20,000
NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER$12,500
CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL$11,000
PEACE CORPS FOUNDATION$10,000
ENERGY VISION$10,000
UC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION$10,000
DUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC$5,000
MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC$2,500
NEW ENGLAND COLLEGE$2,500
SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK$2,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $35k → 7%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $35k → 16%UC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION: $10k → 10%ACTION FOR EDUCATION: $10k → 12%ENERGY VISION: $10k → 17%PEACE CORPS FOUNDATION: $10k → 14%BOSTON COLLEGE: $35k → 7%NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER: $13k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $25k → 16%UC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION: $10k → 10%ENERGY VISION: $10k → 17%BOSTON COLLEGE: $25k → 7%NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER: $13k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%UC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION: $10k → 10%BOSTON COLLEGE: $10k → 7%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%UC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION: $10k → 10%WOODSTOCK TOWN HALL: $20k → 9%HOLY FAMILY PARISH: $10k → 8%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK: $10k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%SUSTAINABLE WOODSTOCK: $10k → 9%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $20k → 11%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION: $10k → 16%MIT: $60k → 8%CRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL: $11k → 16%MIT: $60k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $20k → 16%MIT: $40k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $10k → 16%MIT: $40k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $10k → 16%MIT: $25k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $10k → 16%MIT: $25k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $10k → 16%MIT: $20k → 8%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $10k → 16%MIT: $20k → 8%MIT: $20k → 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

ME
VT
NH
NY
MA
CT
CA
MD
DC
TX
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 30 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

30 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
8

Total granted

$1.6M
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
0%

Still filing today

50%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsHuman 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

  • CL
    CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $130k · revenue +236%
  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $105k · revenue +12%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $102k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
  • AF
    ACTION FOR EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
  • GG
    GARDNER GROUP INC
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
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
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
2
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
3
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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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
5
Nichols College

Nichols college strives to develop tomorrow's leaders through a dynamic, career-focused business education. the college transforms students into successful graduates who respond to challenges, are eager for responsibility, and assume…

Education
6
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
7
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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8
Massachusetts Outdoor Heritage Foundation Inc Attn Susan Sacco
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9
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

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
New England Collegiate Conference Inc

The mission of the NECC is to provide for athletic competition among institutions that share similar academic aspirations and are committed to the importance of the total educational experience for students engaged in sports.The NECC…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Duxbury Rural & Historical Society Inc; the most unlike its peers is Gardner Group 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

22 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. 22 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL (DBMS): $370,000 · OtherDUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL (DBMS)MIT: $310,000 · OtherMITDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINC: $107,500 · OtherDANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTEINCHOLY FAMILY PARISH: $42,500 · OtherUC BERKELY SCHOOL OF INFORMATION: $40,000 · OtherTHE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 · Other+16 more: $155,024 · Other+16 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $105,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF BOST…TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $102,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …New England College: $22,500 · EducationNew England Coll…MARLBORO COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,000 · EducationCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 · HealthCONCUSSIO…CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $8,000 · HealthCANCER SU…GARDNER GROUP INC: $5,000 · HealthSustainable Woodstock Inc: $35,000 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $32,500 · EnvironmentDUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC: $25,500 · EnvironmentENERGY VISION: $20,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $5,000 · EnvironmentCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $5,000 · EnvironmentDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $41,000 · Arts & CulturePeace Corps Foundation: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsDUXBURY INTERFAITH COUNCIL: $9,000 · Human ServicesGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,061,024Education$240,500Health$143,000Environment$123,000Arts & Culture$51,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Human Services$9,000Philanthropy$5,000

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 budgetCONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC: $130,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS: $102,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $41,000 over 9y, 2.6% of budgetTHE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetSustainable Woodstock Inc: $35,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $32,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetDUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC: $25,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNew England College: $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetENERGY VISION: $20,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY INC: $12,500 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetMARLBORO COLLEGE: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPeace Corps Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDUXBURY INTERFAITH COUNCIL: $9,000 over 9y, 1.4% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC: $8,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetGARDNER GROUP INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $1,000 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 CONCUSSION LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
  • Who funds DUXBURY RURAL & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DUXBURY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Woodstock Inc ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds DUXBURY BEACH RESERVATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIVITY SCHOOL OF WORCESTER INC ↗
  • Who funds New England College ↗
  • Who funds ENERGY VISION ↗
  • Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE DUXBURY FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds MARLBORO COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Peace Corps Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DUXBURY INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds CANCER SUPPORT TEAM INC ↗
  • Who funds GARDNER GROUP INC ↗
  • Who funds GREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncThe Ayco Charitable F…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
Eastern Bank FoundationMA14.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Quigley & Heffernan Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quigley & Heffernan Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Duxbury Beach Reservation Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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 41 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home