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The Cosette Charitable Fund

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$286k
Granted FY2022
1
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$286k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of The Cosette Charitable Fund’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

31
’19
4
’20
1
’21
0
’22

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2022.

Philanthropy$12MEducation$1.9MPublic Benefit$100kHealth$66kReligion$55kCommunity Improvement$27kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$14kOther$0
02FY2022 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$285,601
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND$285,601
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 (FY19–19, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 71% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SITTERS WITHOUT BORDERS INC: $500 → 8%WE CAN CORPORATION: $3k → 8%ADOLESCENT CONSULATION SERVICES INC: $1k → 8%COLLEGE BOUND DORCHESTER INC: $10k → 16%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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 4 repeat orgs$260k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
30

Total granted

$405k
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+26%

Still filing today

75%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21
EducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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

  • HS
    Hebrew Senior Life Inc
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +12%
  • TB
    THE BOTTOM LINE INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $150k · revenue +38%
  • BI
    BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $50k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • TP
    TOBIN PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -37%
  • LF
    LEAP for Education Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +116%
  • THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +27%

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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4
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
6
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
7
Northeastern University
Education
8
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
9
Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

Harvard business school publishing corporation's ("hbsp") primary exempt purpose is to support the educational mission and faculty research of harvard business school, thereby extending its reach through publishing activities.

Arts & Culture
10
Boston After School & Beyond Inc

Boston after school & beyond, inc. is a public private partnership that pursues a unified after-school and summer learning system that promotes stakeholder alignment, a focus on results, and access to learning opportunities, particularly…

Education
11
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
12
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School

Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Third Sector New England Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wgbh Educational Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr20%38%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr13%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr20%3%20–35yr13%81%35–55yr13%16%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
10%
1,943/19,044

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.

04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $11,621,290 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND+3 more — $175,000 · Community ImprovementPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,695,316 · EducationPresident and…+5 more — $64,500 · EducationCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $400,000 · PhilanthropyHebrew Senior Life Inc — $150,000 · PhilanthropyTOBIN PROJECT INC — $100,000 · Public BenefitUNION FOR REFORM JUDAISM — $55,000 · OtherBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER — $10,000 · OtherISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $10,000 · OtherJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $10,000 · OtherCOTUIT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 · OtherBest Buddies International Inc — $5,000 · Other+11 more — $10,000 · OtherBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthUNCORNERED INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesWE CAN CORPORATION — $2,500 · Human ServicesADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesSITTERS FOR SCHOLARS INC — $500 · Human Services
Community Improvement$11,796,290Education$1,759,816Philanthropy$550,000Public Benefit$100,000Other$105,000Health$56,000Human Services$14,000

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 budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $11,621,290 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,695,316 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCombined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc — $400,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $150,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTOBIN PROJECT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetBETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP for Education Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $13,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE PHOENIX CHARTER ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBROOKLINE COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH CENTER INC DBA THE BROOKLINE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO SUCCESS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetJAMES D STCLAIR COURT PUBLIC EDUCATION PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNCORNERED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOTUIT ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CAN CORPORATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ACADEMY OF ARTS & SCIENCES — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS WORKING CAPITAL INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYEAR UP INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT CONSULTATION SERVICES INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSITTERS FOR SCHOLARS INC — $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF MASS INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY — $250 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Boston Foundation IncEastern Bank Foundati…Combined Jewish Phila…Cummings Foundation G…American Tower Corpor…The Cabot Family Char…Bushrod H Campbell & …Rockland Trust Charit…Liberty Mutual Founda…Barr FoundationUnited Way Of Massach…Van Otterloo Family F…
Boston Foundation IncMA28.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Barr Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Van Otterloo 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 Cosette Charitable Fund 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Leap for Education Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Steps to Success Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • American Academy of Arts & Sciences — 3% of income from government
  • Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
  • Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
  • We Can Corporation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Cosette Charitable Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Cosette Charitable Fund 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 37 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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