· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +16%
Funded once
- RVRIVER VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $5k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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…
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Charles & Marianne Small Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Charles & Marianne Small Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Jeanne Geiger Crisis Center Inc: 40% of income from government
- Our Neighbors' Table Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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