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Saquish Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k36 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k2 grants · $120k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT PLACE | $65,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| THE RED SOX FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| WGBH | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| LEND A HAND SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| HALE-BARNARD CORPORATION | $30,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $30,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM | $30,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $30,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEMS | $30,000 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $30,000 |
| LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT | $30,000 |
| THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS | $30,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
47 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +27%- TRTHE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $315k · revenue +34%
- HMHERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $272k · revenue +150%
Funded once
BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +159%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
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.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Lend a Hand Society. 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 51 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 — 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.
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 49 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 CROSSROADS FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RED SOX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HERITAGE MUSEUMS AND GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds LLOYD CENTER FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LEND A HAND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HALE-BARNARD CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
- Who funds DUXBURY BAY MARITIME SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
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: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Saquish 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.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Hale-Barnard Corporation — 36% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Lloyd Center for the Environment Inc — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Red Sox Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 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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