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The Andover Companies Charitable 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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k169 grants · $226k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $123k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $63k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $63,000 |
| LAWRENCE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC | $25,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE INCORPORATED | $15,275 |
| AGESPAN INC | $15,000 |
| SAINT PATRICKS PARISH | $15,000 |
| INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $15,000 |
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $12,000 |
| NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC | $10,500 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC | $5,052 |
| EAST COAST INTERNATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF B | $5,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| LAZARUS HOUSE INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 69% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +15% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
66 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 106 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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
Lawrence General Hospital5× · 2021–2025 · $301k · revenue +5%
LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +18%- ECESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- BCBowdoin Collegeone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +9%
- E6END 68 HOURS OF HUNGER - SALEMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- TMThe Ministry for Hope Incone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -5%
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parker School Parent Teachers Pto. 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.
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 33 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% 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.
267 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 267 of the 317 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LAZARUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds AGESPAN INC ↗
- Who funds INSURANCE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF BOSTON ↗
- Who funds NOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds INSURANCE INDUSTRY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds Clean River Project Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MISERICORDIA HOME ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds The Ministry for Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds North Shore Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AURORA AREA INTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Charities New York Metro Inc ↗
- Who funds EXETER HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Gather ↗
- Who funds FOR PETE'S SAKE CANCER RESPITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOUBLE H HOLE IN THE WOODS RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds Veterans Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds IEP Youth Services Inc ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN ANIMAL AID ASSOCIATIONINC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN CUPBOARD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Dion Foundation for Children with Rare Diseases Inc ↗
- Who funds DOVER FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Amica Companies 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 The Andover Companies Charitable 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.
- Employment Horizons Inc — 90% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Bridgewell Inc — 85% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Berkshire Hills Music Academy Inc — 63% of income from government
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- Agespan Inc — 57% of income from government
- Iep Youth Services Inc — 50% of income from government
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Behavioral Health Network Inc — 28% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- Care Dimensions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation New England — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Emmaus Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- All Care Hospice Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hoops and Homework Inc — 5% 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
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Neads Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Museum in Easton Inc — 1% of income from government
- Central Catholic High School of Lawrence Inc — 0% of income from government
- Insurance Library Association of Boston — 0% of income from government
- Cape Ann Animal Aid Associationinc — 0% of income from government
- Groton Hill Music Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Exeter Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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