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Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee

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.

$66k
Granted FY2025still arriving
32
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$140kEducation$45kArts & Culture$42kReligion$27kHuman Services$23kRecreation & Sports$18kHousing & Shelter$10kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $46k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$1,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC$20,000
EMMANUEL CHURCH$7,000
BEVERLY HOSPITAL$5,000
WRITE BOSTON$3,500
PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM$3,000
MILTON ACADEMY$3,000
BUZZARDS SAILING SCHOOL$3,000
ROGERSON COMMUNITIES$2,500
ROCKPORT MUSIC$2,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOC MANH CHAPTER$2,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL$1,500
FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FOUND$1,500
ASSOCIATION PRESERVE CAP COD$1,000
HAWC$1,000
MANCHESTER HISTORICAL MUSEUM$1,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $500 → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $3k → 16%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $500 → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $3k → 16%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $250 → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $3k → 16%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $250 → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $3k → 16%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $250 → 8%ROGERSON COMMUNITIES: $1k → 16%ACCESSPORT AMERICA: $250 → 8%OLD FARM INN INC: $10k → 8%WINDRUSH FARM: $500 → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $500 → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $500 → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $500 → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $250 → 10%WINDRUSH FARM: $250 → 10%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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$288k · 37 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
7

Total granted

$288k
$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+54%

Still filing today

59%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesEnvironmentRecreation & SportsHousing & 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

  • SL
    SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +145%
  • WI
    WriteBoston Inc
    5× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +124%
  • RC
    ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • OF
    OLD FARM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +24%
  • ZM
    ZENO MOUNTAIN FARM
    one grant, 2024 · $8k
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $3k
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
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
4
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
5
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
6
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
7
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
8
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
9
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
10
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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11
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
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 Essex County Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Peabody Essex Museum 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

31 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. 31 of the 51 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
20/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BEVERLY HOSPITAL: $42,250 · OtherBEVERLY HOSPITALEMMANUEL CHURCH: $15,500 · OtherEMMANUEL CHURCHZENO MOUNTAIN FARM: $8,000 · OtherZENO MOUNTAIN FARMST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $8,000 · OtherST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCHHELP FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND: $8,000 · OtherHELP FOR ABUSED WOMEN AND+26 more: $40,300 · Other+26 moreSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $70,500 · Housing & ShelterSUPPORTIVE LIVING INCMILTON ACADEMY: $16,000 · EducationMILTON ACADEMYWriteBoston Inc: $15,000 · EducationWriteBoston IncTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $9,000 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIM…GRACE ACADEMY: $3,500 · EducationGRACE ACADEMY+3 more: $2,100 · EducationPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $16,500 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX …ROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureROCKPORT MUSIC…CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEU…MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA MUSEUM INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureMANCHESTER-BY-…ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $11,000 · Human ServicesROGERSON …OLD FARM INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesOLD FARM …WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesWINDRUSH …ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesACCESSPOR…BUZZARDS SAILING SCHOOL INC: $6,500 · Recreation & SportsTENACITY INC: $3,000 · Recreation & SportsUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $5,000 · PhilanthropyESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$122,050Housing & Shelter$70,500Education$45,600Arts & Culture$39,500Human Services$25,500Recreation & Sports$9,500Philanthropy$6,000

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 budgetSUPPORTIVE LIVING INC: $70,500 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $16,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWriteBoston Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC: $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOLD FARM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetROCKPORT MUSIC INC: $9,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBUZZARDS SAILING SCHOOL INC: $6,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetMANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $3,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTENACITY INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $2,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION: $1,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOT NS INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELMONT DAY SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER ESSEX EDUCATION FUND INC: $450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER COMMUNITY CENTER: $200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJOSIAH A SPAULDING EDUCATION FUND: $100 over 1y, 1.6% 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 SUPPORTIVE LIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds WriteBoston Inc ↗
  • Who funds ROGERSON COMMUNITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds OLD FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKPORT MUSIC INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds BUZZARDS SAILING SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER-BY-THE-SEA MUSEUM INC ↗
  • Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
  • Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds TENACITY INC ↗
  • Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ACCESSPORTSAMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHEAST HOSPITAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION TO PRESERVE CAPE COD INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗

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 IncMA24× 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 · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · The Kneisel Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Mark and Cynthia Ross Family Charitable Trust · Kenwood Foundation 7521-Xxxxxx21240 · James & Virginia Welch Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower 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 Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc: 23% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc: 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Rogerson Communities Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Northeast Hospital Corporation: 5% of income from government
  • Rockport Music Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Supportive Living Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Essex County Community Foundation Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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.
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Find your warmest path to Robbins Nest Foundation Anthony P Fusco Trustee through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 51 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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