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Stearns Charitable Trust

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.

$450k
Granted FY2025still arriving
42
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$786kEducation$758kArts & Culture$492kHealth$451kHousing & Shelter$219kAnimals$173kReligion$126kFood & Nutrition$89kOther$0
02FY2025 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $318k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$9.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY$55,000
MASSACHUSETTS RIVERS ALLIANCE$40,000
WOODMERE ART MUSEUM$30,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$20,000
WHEATON COLLEGE$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (USCF FOUNDATION)$20,000
COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES$17,500
BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC)$15,000
SAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL$15,000
GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION$10,000
MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA MARINHEALTH FOUNDATION$10,000
PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOGY CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION$10,000
LOVE LIVES IN SEEKONK$10,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC$10,000
MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%NEADS: $1k → 11%BERKSHIRE IMMIGRANT CENTER INC: $5k → 12%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%NEADS: $1k → 11%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $10k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $9k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%WOMEN'S FUND OF RHODE ISLAND: $5k → 14%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $5k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $3k → 16%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $20k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $18k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 10%SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURAL PARTNERSHIP: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
NH
WA
MT
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 88 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2025, 54 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
57

Total granted

$2.8M
$312k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+39%

Still filing today

67%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • MR
    Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +76%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM
    8× · 2018–2025 · $162k · revenue +218%
  • CF
    COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $153k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • OO
    ORDER OF SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS
    one grant, 2019 · $40k
  • AC
    ADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -49%
  • WA
    WOODMERE ART MUSEUM PHIL PA
    one grant, 2017 · $20k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

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
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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3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
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
5
Marine Biological Laboratory

The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…

Science & Tech
6
Wildlands Trust Inc

The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…

Environment
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
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
9
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.

Environment
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is Grace Science Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesLocal History MuseumsLocal Food System Organizat…Domestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Women & Girls Leadership De…Community Arts CentersSenior Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsPublic Library OperationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr16%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%16%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr16%39%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/110
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,455

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.

04the grantee network

107 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. 107 of the 156 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/107
Grantees still filing
77/107
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC) — $92,000 · OtherBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC (DBA BRIC)UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION (USCF FOUNDATION) — $76,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUND…SISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWS — $74,000 · OtherSISTERS OF OUR LADY OF SORROWSTHE MORRIS ARBORETUM OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PA — $65,000 · OtherSAINT IGNATIUS SCHOOL — $62,500 · OtherWHEATON ANNUAL FUND — $60,000 · OtherNATIONAL PARK SERVICE (POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE) — $55,000 · OtherSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $48,500 · Other+73 more — $798,388 · Other+73 moreWHEATON COLLEGE — $119,333 · EducationWHEATON COLLEGETHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $106,500 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRU…TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $89,555 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE …SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL — $42,500 · EducationSAN DOMENICO SCH…MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL — $35,000 · EducationMARIN PRIMARY & …MARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION — $22,500 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $22,500 · EducationTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $18,000 · Education+8 more — $51,500 · Education+8 moreMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — $174,889 · EnvironmentMassachusetts Ri…Seekonk Land Conservation Trust — $99,995 · EnvironmentSeekonk Land Con…WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $42,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT LAND CO…WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $41,000 · EnvironmentWESTPORT RIVER W…CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION LAW…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $22,500 · EnvironmentEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance — $20,000 · Environment+9 more — $48,000 · Environment+9 moreCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION — $74,500 · HealthCUTANEOUS L…GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $70,000 · HealthGRACE SCIEN…MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $51,000 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH…THE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION — $37,500 · HealthTHE PACIFIC…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $26,000 · HealthDana-Farber…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $24,440 · HealthPLANNED PAR…EMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 · HealthLENNY LEARNING INC — $15,000 · Health+5 more — $34,000 · Health+5 moreWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $162,000 · Arts & CultureWOODMERE AR…BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $40,000 · Arts & CultureBRIC ARTS M…OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $32,500 · Arts & CultureOLD SLATER …MUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $20,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF S…Chicago Humanities Festival — $17,000 · Arts & Culture51 WALDEN INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $14,000 · Arts & CultureCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $32,000 · Arts & Culture+8 moreCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $152,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $66,388 · Human Services+4 more — $17,000 · Human ServicesSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $101,000 · AnimalsNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $28,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $9,500 · AnimalsWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $6,000 · Animals+3 more — $6,000 · Animals
Other$1,331,388Education$507,388Environment$500,884Health$348,440Arts & Culture$346,500Human Services$235,888Animals$150,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMassachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — $174,889 over 6y, 11% of budgetWOODMERE ART MUSEUM — $162,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $152,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWHEATON COLLEGE — $119,333 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $106,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $101,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSeekonk Land Conservation Trust — $99,995 over 5y, 54% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $89,555 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION — $74,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION — $70,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $66,388 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC — $51,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC — $48,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC — $43,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL — $42,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $42,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC — $41,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL — $41,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC — $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION — $37,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL — $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION — $32,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetNEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION — $28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $26,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA — $24,440 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION — $22,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $22,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST — $21,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetADM CAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEvergreen Mountain Bike Alliance — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMUSEUM OF SCIENCE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROOKLYN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $18,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO — $18,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Humanities Festival — $17,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY CORPORATION — $16,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEMERSON HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC — $16,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMarin Rowing Association — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLENNY LEARNING INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget51 WALDEN INC — $15,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $14,889 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOSSIPEE CHILDRENS FUND INC — $14,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetSeekonk Library Trust — $14,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetBERKSHIRE MUSIC SCHOOL INC — $14,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budget
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 Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOODMERE ART MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Seekonk Land Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds CUTANEOUS LYMPHOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WESTPORT RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTH SHORE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds BRIC ARTS MEDIA BKLYN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PACIFIC PEDIATRIC NEURO-ONCOLOG CONSORTIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds OLD SLATER MILL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEASTERN PA ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗

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.

The Rhode Island Comm…Boston Foundation IncUnited Way of Rhode I…Marin Community Found…June Rockwell Levy Fo…Fidelity FoundationJewish Community Fede…Amica Companies Found…Neil & Anna Rasmussen…Alvord Family Foundat…Pobble Stone Foundati…The Jaket Foundation
The Rhode Island Community FoundationRI22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Marin Community Foundation · June Rockwell Levy Foundation Incorporated · Fidelity Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Amica Companies Foundation · Neil & Anna Rasmussen Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · The Jaket 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 Stearns Charitable Trust 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Berkshire Immigrant Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Communities for Restorative Justice Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Narrows Center for the Arts Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Westport Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
  • Wheaton College — 0% of income from government
  • Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 156 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines