· Private foundation
Roger Mand Michelle S Marino Char Foun
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS | $10,000 |
| BUILD | $10,000 |
| DETECTOGETHER | $5,000 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| CAMPUS SCHOOL OF BOSTON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BOSTON POST ADOPTION RESOURCES | $1,500 |
| CHILDREN'S LEGAL FUND | $1,500 |
| DEAN COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| PROJECT BREAD | $1,000 |
| BAY COLONY GOLF CLUB DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $1,000 |
| IMMOKLAEE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT NETWORK | $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 (FY17–21, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 49% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
49 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2021, 40 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- TSTHE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC4× · 2017–2020 · $750k · revenue +117% · 30% of their budget
- FAFISCAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $215k · revenue +214% · 26% of their budget
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +110%
Funded once
- RMROGER M MARINO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- UCUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +57%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.…
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
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…
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Giblin Family 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
64 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. 64 of the 117 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 THE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FISCAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds DETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds PROJECT STRETCH INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds GULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MELMARK NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Boston Post Adoption Resources Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE BINA FARM INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER 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: The Roger and Kathy Marino Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Flatley Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Yawkey Foundation II · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies 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 Roger Mand Michelle S Marino Char Foun 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.
- The Immigrant Learning Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
- Andover School of Montessori Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Boston Foundation for Sight Inc — 0% of income from government
- Gulfshore Playhouse Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Dean College — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven 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.
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