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The Charles & Marianne Small 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEWBURYPORT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB LOWER MERRIMACK VAL | $25,000 |
| OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE | $10,000 |
| FIREHOUSE CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $10,000 |
| JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER | $10,000 |
| CUSTOM HOUSE MARITIME MUSEUM | $9,500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE NEWBURYPORT | $7,500 |
| NEWBURYPORT LITERARY ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| MERROHAWKE NATURE SCHOOL | $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 (FY20–25, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NENewburyport Education Foundation Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $148k · revenue +32%
JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $63k · revenue +58%- ONOur Neighbors' Table Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- RVRIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
To promote and exhibit members work and to provide art education and access to the visual arts for the entire community.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To provide community access cable channels and the use of video equipment to residents in and around Newburyport, MA
To preserve and interpret the history of Old Newbury, which includes Newbury, Newburyport, and West Newbury from settlement until the present.
The Friends of the Library are dedicated to supporting the library by providing materials, supplies, and programs for children, teens, and adults.
To establish New Bedford as the leading ocean economy on the East Coast
Restore and maintain the 1832 Meetinghouse located in the center of Newbury,NH
The purposes of this corporation are to collect, preserve and share the history of North Yarmouth (the area encompassed by the original settlement) as well as to promote interest and appreciation of the character of the present town of…
Newbury College was a challenging undergraduate experience designed to engage students in a career-focused education.
To stop the climate crisis by building grassroots support for a just transition to renewable energy and an end to fossil fuel use and expansion. We envision a society with a renewable energy economy that works for all people, where all…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Newburyport Education Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 13 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 Newburyport Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JEANNE GEIGER CRISIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Our Neighbors' Table Inc ↗
- Who funds Merrohawke Nature School Inc ↗
- Who funds Newburyport Literary Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Service of Newburyport Inc ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF ARTS ↗
- Who funds Young Women's Christian Association of Newburyport ↗
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: Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · NAID Foundation · Mary Alice Arakelian Foundation · Edward S & Winifred G Moseley Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Newburyport Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Newburyport Society for the Relief of Aged Women Inc · The Provident Community Charitable Organization Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Charles & Marianne Small 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.
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% 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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