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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.

$72k
Granted FY2021
17
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2021.

Education$1.1MHealth$772kPublic Benefit$218kPhilanthropy$62kHousing & Shelter$43kArts & Culture$42kInternational$42kAnimals$35kOther$0
02FY2021 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k12 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
$1,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BUILD$10,000
NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS$10,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$10,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$10,000
BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL$10,000
DETECTOGETHER$5,000
DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$5,000
CAMPUS SCHOOL OF BOSTON COLLEGE$2,000
DEAN COLLEGE$1,500
CHILDREN'S LEGAL FUND$1,500
BOSTON POST ADOPTION RESOURCES$1,500
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SUPPORT NETWORK$1,000
THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP$1,000
PROJECT BREAD$1,000
BAY COLONY GOLF CLUB DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS$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.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%ADOPT A NATIVE ELDER: $100 → 8%ZERO TO THREE: $100 → 14%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOINDATION INC: $100 → 11%BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT: $1k → 7%YOUTH HAVEN: $3k → 10%BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT: $1k → 7%BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT: $1k → 7%BOSTON POST ADOPTION RESOURCES: $3k → 7%BOSTON POST ADOPTION RESOURCES: $2k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $500 → 16%CRADLES TO CRAYONS: $250 → 16%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

WA
IL
WI
NY
MA
NV
CT
RI
CA
UT
VA
NC
DC
GA
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 49 repeat orgs$142k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

49
60

Total granted

$2.3M
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+55%

Still filing today

63%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
Human ServicesEducationHealthInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • TS
    THE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $750k · revenue +117% · 30% of their budget
  • FA
    FISCAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $215k · revenue +214% · 26% of their budget
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • RM
    ROGER M MARINO FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • UC
    USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +57%
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 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
3
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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4
The Bridgespan Group Inc

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.

Community Improvement
5
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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6
United States Naval Institute

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.

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7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
8
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
9
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
10
University of New Haven

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…

Education
11
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
12
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Teen Empowerment Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 117 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
51/64
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER: $350,000 · OtherTUFTS MEDICAL CENTERBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL: $195,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITALREVERE HIGH SCHOOL: $70,000 · OtherREVERE HIGH SCHOOLCRISTO REY BOSTON HIGH SCHOOL INC: $51,000 · OtherROGER M MARINO FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherJHAMTSE INTERNATIONAL INCORPORATED: $40,000 · OtherSCHULTZ'S GUEST HOUSE: $38,900 · Other+79 more: $196,730 · Other+79 moreTHE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $750,000 · EducationTHE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $140,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY+6 more: $36,500 · EducationFISCAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 · Crime & LegalFISCAL ALL…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $65,000 · HealthDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $50,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $17,500 · HealthNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $17,500 · HealthAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $16,000 · Health+3 more: $4,508 · HealthSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $20,000 · InternationalPROJECT STRETCH INCORPORATED: $19,000 · InternationalTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,500 · International+3 more: $450 · InternationalGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $14,400 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $12,000 · Arts & CultureUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureARTIS-NAPLES INC: $2,500 · Arts & CultureARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $1,450 · Arts & CultureBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 · Community ImprovementDedham Square Circle: $1,000 · Community Improvement+1 more: $250 · Community Improvement
Other$991,630Education$926,500Crime & Legal$215,000Health$170,508International$40,950Arts & Culture$40,350Community Improvement$21,250

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 budgetTHE SUMMIT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC: $750,000 over 4y, 30% of budgetFISCAL ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $215,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $140,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $65,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDETECTOGETHER INC FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE 15-40 CONNECTION INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetLASELL UNIVERSITY: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT STRETCH INCORPORATED: $19,000 over 4y, 96% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION: $16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGULFSHORE PLAYHOUSE INC: $14,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBoston Post Adoption Resources Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $3,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BINA FARM INC: $3,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT LEARNING CENTER INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAndover School of Montessori Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOSTON FOUNDATION FOR SIGHT INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetARTIS-NAPLES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIBLIN FAMILY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND MARITIME ISTITUTE INC: $1,750 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDEAN COLLEGE: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWings for Falmouth Families Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetARMENIAN MUSEUM OF AMERICA INC: $1,450 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $1,022 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Square Circle: $1,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDedham Historical Society: $300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSPOONFULS: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE INC: $258 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDBUILDERS INC: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLET'S GET READY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $250 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 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 ↗

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.

The Roger and Kathy Marino FoundationFL26.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Roger Mand Michelle S Marino Char Foun funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Roger Mand Michelle S Marino Char Foun. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 200%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
20get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 Roger Mand Michelle S Marino Char Foun 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 117 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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