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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.

$27k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$183kHousing & Shelter$10kHuman Services$9kReligion$6kHealth$3kPublic Benefit$2kEducation$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$4,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%PLIMOTH PLANTATION: $18k → 8%LONGFELLOW'S WAYSIDE INN: $8k → 8%CAPE ANN MUSEUM: $3k → 10%Historic Deerfield: $4k → 14%FORT TICONDEROGA: $12k → 13%GENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE MUSEUM: $2k → 5%Dorothy Quincy Homestead: $3k → 7%Plimoth Plantation: $15k → 8%LONGFELLOW'S WAYSIDE INN: $6k → 8%White Ellery House: $2k → 10%HISTORIC DEERFIELD: $4k → 14%THE JAMAICA PLAIN TUESDAY CLUB: $3k → 16%FORT TICONDEROGA: $5k → 13%GENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS: $2k → 14%Plimouth Plantation: $15k → 8%THE WAYSIDE INN FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%MARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 10%Historic Deerfield: $2k → 14%THE LORING-GREENOUGH HOUSE: $3k → 16%FORT TICONDEROGA: $5k → 13%PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUM: $9k → 8%MARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $5k → 10%FORT TICONDEROGA: $4k → 13%PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUM: $7k → 8%FORT SEWALL: $4k → 10%SHIRLEY EUSTIS HOUSE: $3k → 16%FORT TICONDEROGA: $3k → 13%PLIMOTH PLANTATION: $5k → 8%MARBLEHEAD ARCHITECTURE HERITAGE: $4k → 10%OLD NORTH CHURCH: $5k → 16%PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUM: $4k → 8%Marblehead Museum: $3k → 10%Shirley Eustis House: $2k → 16%PILGRIM HALL MUSEUM: $3k → 8%MARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $3k → 10%HISTORIC BEVERLY: $5k → 10%Wenham Museum: $3k → 10%ESSEX HERITAGE: $3k → 10%THE COLONIAL SOCIETY: $15k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES: $4k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES: $4k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES: $3k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES: $3k → 16%REVOLUTIONARY SPACES: $3k → 16%National Society of Colonial Dames: $3k → 16%NATIONAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL DANES: $3k → 16%National Society of Colonial Dames: $3k → 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.
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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$192k · 11 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
20

Total granted

$192k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
0%

Still filing today

55%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationOther
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

  • PP
    PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +25%
  • TN
    THE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA
    7× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +24%
  • TW
    THE WAYSIDE INN
    3× · 2021–2023 · $15k · revenue +247%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE COLONIAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • BEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -21%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $4k
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
Historic Boston Incorporated
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2
Plymouth Antiquarian Society

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…

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3
Falmouth Historical Society Inc

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.

Unclassified
4
Yarmouth Historical Society

To develop and promote awareness of the town of Yarmouth history and acquire, preserve, and exhibit artifacts of historical significance.

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5
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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6
Fitchburg Historical Society

Museum and research library for history of fitchburg, massachusetts

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7
New Hampshire Historical Society

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.

Arts & Culture
8
Wayland Historical Society Inc

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.

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9
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
10
Greater Bristol Historical Society

Historical society

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11
The Gibson Society Inc

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…

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12
Uss Constitution Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The National Soc of the Colonial Dames of America in the Comm of Ma; 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.
04the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 31 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $76,330 · Arts & CulturePLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INCTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $28,706 · Arts & CultureTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATIONTHE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA: $21,200 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MAHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $9,600 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC+7 more: $20,020 · Arts & Culture+7 moreTHE COLONIAL SOCIETY: $15,000 · OtherTHE COLONIAL SOCIETYTHE WAYSIDE INN: $14,700 · OtherTHE WAYSIDE INNMARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUM: $12,000 · OtherMARBLEHEAD HISTORICAL MUSEUMSHIRLEY EUSTIS HOUSE: $9,100 · OtherSHIRLEY EUSTIS HOUSEIndividual grant recipient: $5,616 · OtherIndividual grant recipientOLD NORTH CHURCH: $5,500 · OtherOLD NORTH CHURCHTHE LORING-GREENOUGH HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherBEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · Other+10 more: $21,500 · Other+10 moreTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,500 · Education
Arts & Culture$155,856Other$96,916Education$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC: $76,330 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FORT TICONDEROGA ASSOCIATION: $28,706 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL SOC OF THE COLONIAL DAMES OF AMERICA IN THE COMM OF MA: $21,200 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE WAYSIDE INN: $14,700 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHISTORIC DEERFIELD INC: $9,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGENERAL SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS: $4,670 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJamaica Plain Tuesday Club Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREVOLUTIONARY SPACES INC: $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $2,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN INDEPENDENCE CENTER: $2,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTONIAN SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROXBURY LATIN SCHOOL: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAUL REVERE MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTALES OF CAPE COD INC: $600 over 1y, 0.2% 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 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 ↗

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.

Massachusetts Society…Boston Foundation IncHighland Street Conne…Massachusetts Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Fidelity Non-Profit M…Donors Trust IncEastern Bank Foundati…Fidelity FoundationIbm International Fou…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Massachusetts Society of the CincinnatiMA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Ma funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Ma. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 31 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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