· Private foundation
The Ausolus Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $116k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $567k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $832k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| LOWELL OBSERVATORY | $70,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $57,000 |
| ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| THE SHELBURNE MUSEUM | $50,000 |
| GLOUCHESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE INC | $50,000 |
| BATES COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| ISLAND READERS & WRITERS | $50,000 |
| MGH FUND | $40,000 |
| SECOND STAGE THEATRE | $40,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $246k 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
- IRISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $935k · revenue +572% · 45% of their budget
ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC7× · 2017–2023 · $520k · revenue +50%- VCVASSAR COLLEGE5× · 2020–2024 · $300k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- NHNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue -60%
- HUHARVARD UNIVERSITY- MUSEUM OF COMPARATIVE ZOOLOGYone grant, 2021 · $35k
- HCHARVARD COLLEGE FUNDone grant, 2022 · $30k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
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…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Aquarium Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 53 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
77 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. 77 of the 124 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 ISLAND READERS & WRITERS AN INITIATIVE FOR MAINE CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPRINGSIDE CHESTNUT HILL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER MARINE GENOMICS INSTITUTE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds LOWELL OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Peoria Riverfront Museum ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER THURSTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Island Institute ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Colket Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Ethel D Colket Foundation · The Edward Marthann Samek Foundation · Beard Family Charitable Trust John E Beard Trustee · Florence V Burden Foundation · Hattie a and Fred C Lynam Trust · Janet Stone Jones Foundation · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · Davis Family 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 Ausolus 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.
- Gloucester Marine Genomics Institute Incorporated — 16% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Shelburne Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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