· Private foundation
Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $240k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $259k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORGES FOUNDATION | $259,000 |
| PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS | $50,000 |
| BID PLYMOUTH FAMILY FUND | $40,000 |
| WOODSIDE SCHOOL & COMM RESOURCE CTR | $30,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER | $30,000 |
| WILDLANDS TRUST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| BATTENKILL VALLEY HEALTH CENTER | $25,000 |
| THE JEFFIE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PILGRIM SOCIETY | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,442 |
| BLACK FEATHER HORSE RESCUE | $10,000 |
| MANOMET BIBLE CHURCH | $5,000 |
| PILGRIM HALL MUSEUM | $1,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- FFFORGES FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $649k · revenue ×15
NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue ×15- WTWILDLANDS TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BPBID PLYMOUTH CANCER CENTERone grant, 2018 · $100k
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +23%
GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +51%
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.
The Plymouth Antiquarian Society is a non-profit educational institution that collects, preserves, and interprets historic houses and artifacts. The Society uses these resources to tell the story of everyday life in Plymouth and New…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The organization is committed to developing each student's full intellectual, artistic and physical potential. students are encouraged to challenge themselves intellectually, to pursue rigorous learning for its own sake, (see schedule…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wildlands Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Forges Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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 — 4% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 43 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.
- Who funds FORGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODSIDE SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Pilgrim Society ↗
- Who funds THE PLYMOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Black Feather Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JEFFIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOWLAND FUND INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR DUMMER ACADEMY THE GOVERNOR'S ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Plymouth 400 Inc ↗
- Who funds Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNSBURY ATHENAEUM INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERS SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE MORTON ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds PINEWOOD ACRES CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
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: Henry Hornblower Fund Inc · Mary Elizabeth Pearce Foundation Tr · Gardinor-Prunaret Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Fidelity Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Roberta M Childs Charitable Foundation 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.
- Plymouth 400 Inc — 91% of income from government
- Battenkill Valley Health Center Inc — 33% of income from government
- Wildlands Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- St Johnsbury Athenaeum Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilgrim Society — 1% of income from government
- Governor Dummer Academy the Governor's Academy — 1% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% 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.
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