· Private foundation
Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Ma
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT TICONDEROGA | $11,906 |
| MARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUM | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES | $4,000 |
| GENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS | $2,440 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 6 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
- PPPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +25%
- TNTHE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +24%
- TWTHE WAYSIDE INN3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +247%
Funded once
- TCTHE COLONIAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $15k
BEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
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 mission of the falmouth historical society, through the museums on the green, is to provide educational programs, and to preserve, share and celebrate the history and culture of the cape cod town of falmouth.
To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
Study, collect and preserve the history of Wayland, Massachusetts and its people: to preserve the building and the artifacts owned by the Society, and to disseminate information to promote the traditions and history or Wayland.
Historical society
The mission of The Gibson House Museum is to serve as the primary resource for understanding and interpreting life in Bostons Back Bay. The museum accomplishes this by preserving the row house and its collections; exhibiting and…
The uss constitution museum engages all ages in the story of "old ironsides" to spark excitement about maritime heritage, naval service, and the american experience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Soc of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Ma and the most unlike its peers is Tales of Cape Cod Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 31 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 PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA ↗
- Who funds THE WAYSIDE INN ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC DEERFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds GENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Jamaica Plain Tuesday Club Inc ↗
- Who funds REVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOSTONIAN SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TALES OF CAPE COD 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: Massachusetts Society of the Cincinnati · Boston Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities & Public Policy Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Donors Trust Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Ma 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Revolutionary Spaces Inc — 20% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% of income from government
- Paul Revere Memorial Association — 1% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield 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.