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Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$6.3M
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 83% of Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+5 grants · $7.5M
$200,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$201M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Massachusetts General Hospital$6,350,000
Boston College$337,500
Boston Children's Hospital$300,000
Middlesex School$250,000
Winchester Hospital$250,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell$200,000
Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church$100,000
Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lawrence$50,000
Sts Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church$25,000
Crocker Field Restoration Committee Inc$25,000
Anatolia College$25,000
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 (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Fidelity House: $50k → 8%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.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$23M · 16 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$23M
$658k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
-1%

Still filing today

63%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $575k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $1.7M · revenue +50%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $700k · revenue +117%
  • WH
    WINCHESTER HOSPITAL
    2× · 2022–2024 · $300k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MC
    MA COVID-19 Relief Fund - Foundation for Business Equity
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • SM
    Somerville Museum
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • Lawrence General Hospital
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +5%

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.

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Northeast Hospital Corporation

Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…

Health
2
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital - Milton

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-milton, inc. (bid-milton or hospital) is to provide safe, high-quality, community-based health care and access to tertiary care in close collaboration with its sister hospital, beth israel…

Health
3
Beth Israel Lahey Health Primary Care

Beth israel lahey health primary care (bilhpc) is a network of community based physicians affiliated with the beth israel lahey health (bilh) network and serving the patients and communities served by the lahey clinic hospital (lahey…

4
Anna Jaques Hospital Inc

The mission of anna jaques hospital (ajh or hospital) is to provide the highest quality medical care and improve the health of the communities served by ajh in alliance with the ajh medical staff and ajh affiliates including seacoast…

Health
5
Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital-Plymouth Inc

The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…

Health
6
Lahey Clinic Foundation Inc

The lahey clinic foundation, inc. (lcf) serves as the sole member and supports the lahey clinic (lc) and lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc), enabling lhmc and lc to provide superior health care leading to…

Health
7
Lahey Clinic Inc

Lahey clinic (lc) provides the highest quality interdisciplinary and coordinated patient care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and educating tomorrow's health care…

Health
8
Lahey Clinic Hospital Inc

Lahey clinic hospital d/b/a lahey hospital & medical center (lhmc) is committed to providing superior health care leading to the best possible outcomes and experiences for every patient, advancing medicine through research and the…

Health
9
Mount Auburn Hospital

The mission of new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is the operation and maintenance of an acute care, orthopedic specialty hospital and provision of all services related thereto for the benefit of patients. nebh strives to…

Health
10
Beth Israel Lahey Health Specialty Care F/K/a Northeast Medical Practice

Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…

Health
11
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc

Tertiary care academic medical center

Health
12
Exeter Hospital Inc

The mission of the exeter hospital inc. (ehi or hospital) is committed to improving the health of the communities served by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient rights in a cost…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Baptist Hospital and the most unlike its peers is The Crocker Field Restoration Committee 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

17 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Massachusetts General Hospital — $17,450,000 · OtherMassachusetts General HospitalHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH — $1,349,913 · OtherHOLY TRINITY GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH+18 more — $1,582,500 · Other+18 moreTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,687,500 · EducationTRUSTEES O…MIDDLESEX SCHOOL — $250,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX …COTTING SCHOOL INC — $200,000 · EducationCOTTING SC…THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE — $115,000 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $700,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentWINCHESTER HOSPITAL — $300,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $100,000 · HealthNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $100,000 · HealthLawrence General Hospital — $75,000 · HealthLOWELL HOUSE INC — $75,000 · HealthBROWN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · Community ImprovementTHE CROCKER FIELD RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC — $75,000 · Recreation & SportsFIDELITY HOUSE INC — $50,000 · Human Services
Other$20,382,413Education$2,252,500Youth Development$800,000Health$650,000Community Improvement$250,000Recreation & Sports$75,000Human Services$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,687,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC — $700,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetWINCHESTER HOSPITAL — $300,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL — $250,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC — $200,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE — $115,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLawrence General Hospital — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CROCKER FIELD RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC — $75,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetLOWELL HOUSE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFIDELITY HOUSE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetHELLENIC INITIATIVE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFEDERATION OF HELLENIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF NEW ENGLAND INC — $25,000 over 1y, 24% 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC
  • Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL
  • Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL
  • Who funds COTTING SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF ANATOLIA COLLEGE
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL
  • Who funds Lawrence General Hospital
  • Who funds THE CROCKER FIELD RESTORATION COMMITTEE INC
  • Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC
  • Who funds FIDELITY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds ANNA JAQUES COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HELLENIC INITIATIVE INC
  • Who funds FEDERATION OF HELLENIC AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF NEW ENGLAND 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.

Demoulas FoundationMA19.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Demoulas Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Boston Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Fidelity House Inc91% of income from government
  • Lawrence General Hospital41% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc27% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College3% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc1% of income from government
  • Winchester Hospital1% of income from government
  • New England Baptist Hospital1% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report 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, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Telemachus and Irene Demoulas Family Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 34 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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