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The Coughlin Family Trust

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.

$64k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
15
Grants FY2025
24
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$50,000
Organizations funded a year
11 to 24
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$787k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations The Coughlin Family Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving15$64k7%
FY202424$107k8%
FY202322$45k5%
FY202223$95k43%
FY202111$94k9%
FY202023$56k35%
FY201916$99k44%
FY201818$55k28%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$328kPhilanthropy$65kHousing & Shelter$45kEducation$44kInternational$44kHealth$35kCrime & Legal$17kArts & Culture$15kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 51 grantees
All grantees of The Coughlin Family Trust by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Plummer Youth Promise Inc$309,90091%
United Way of King County$50,00010%
International Institute of New England Inc$29,00060%
Homes for Our Troops Inc$28,00080%
Cristo Rey Network$25,00010%
Equal Justice Initiative$15,50050%
Marblehead Counseling Center$9,50071%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$9,00040%
Spur Inc$7,25091%
The Herren Project$7,00040%
Marblehead Museum & Historical Society Inc$6,00031%
The Salem Mission Inc$6,00050%
Northeast Arc Inc$5,88020%
Marblehead Food Pantry Inc$5,50071%
Sweden Food Pantry$5,50082%
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$5,50030%
Pine Street Inn Inc$5,00030%
Lakes Environmental Association$5,00090%
Marblehead Boosters Club Incorporated$5,00012%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$4,30060%
World Central Kitchen Inc$4,00040%
Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation$4,00020%
Impact-U Foundation Inc$4,0001n/a
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$4,00010%
Rosie's Place Inc$3,00020%
On Course Foundation USA$3,00020%
Goldthwait Reservation Inc$2,85070%
Greater Lovell Land Trust Inc$2,75040%
Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless Inc$2,5001n/a
United Way of Greater Houston$2,00010%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$2,00010%
Scholarship America Inc$2,0002n/a
Mona Foundation$1,7501n/a
Myba Scholarship Fund Inc$1,5001n/a
Chicago Football Classic Scholarship Fund Inc$1,50010%
Rejoice Zimbabwe$1,0001n/a
Center for Arms Control and$1,00010%
Minds Matter Colorado Inc$1,00010%
The Family Restored$1,00010%
Mass General Brigham Incorporated$1,0001n/a
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc$1,00010%
Massachusetts Bail Fund$1,00010%
Cradles to Crayons Inc$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Inc$60010%
Charity Navigator$60030%
Birthday Wishes Inc$50010%
Zero Prostate Cancer$50010%
Cornell University$30010%
Clifton Improvement Association Inc$2501n/a
Person to Person Inc$25010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($68k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Coughlin Family Trust supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPlummer Youth Promise Inc: $309,900 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of King County: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Institute of New England Inc: $29,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHomes for Our Troops Inc: $28,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCristo Rey Network: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEqual Justice Initiative: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMarblehead Counseling Center: $9,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpur Inc: $7,250 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetThe Herren Project: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMarblehead Museum & Historical Society Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Salem Mission Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Arc Inc: $5,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMarblehead Food Pantry Inc: $5,500 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetSweden Food Pantry: $5,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLakes Environmental Association: $5,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetMarblehead Boosters Club Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $4,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMarc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOn Course Foundation USA: $3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGoldthwait Reservation Inc: $2,850 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetGreater Lovell Land Trust Inc: $2,750 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Houston: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChicago Football Classic Scholarship Fund Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Arms Control and: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMinds Matter Colorado Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Family Restored: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Bail Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCradles to Crayons Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Inc: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCharity Navigator: $600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBirthday Wishes Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetZero Prostate Cancer: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPerson to Person Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 43.

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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.

Eastern Bank FoundationMA28.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Kenneth D Bane Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The Coughlin Family Trust

How much does The Coughlin Family Trust give?
The Coughlin Family Trust reported 15 grants totaling $63,860 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Coughlin Family Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (49%), Philanthropy (10%), Housing & Shelter (7%).
Who are The Coughlin Family Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Plummer Youth Promise Inc ($310k), United Way of King County ($50k), International Institute of New England Inc ($29k).
Does The Coughlin Family Trust fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Coughlin Family Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Coughlin Family Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is The Coughlin Family Trust based?
The Coughlin Family Trust is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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