· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k14 grants · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE | $50,000 |
| IMPACT U FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE NORTHSHORE | $1,000 |
| PAN-MASS CHALLENGE | $1,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,000 |
| HERREN PROJECT | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $1,000 |
| HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS | $1,000 |
| MAYWOOD FINE ARTS | $860 |
| LAKE ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM | $500 |
| SPUR | $500 |
| MARBLEHEAD FOOD PANTRY | $500 |
| THE GOLDTHWAIT RESERVATION | $500 |
| GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST | $500 |
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 (FY17–25, $334k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% 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 +55% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $310k · revenue +111%- IIINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC6× · 2017–2024 · $29k · revenue +561%
HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +89%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF KING COUNTYone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -21%
- CRCRISTO REY NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +79%
- CRCRISTO REYone grant, 2018 · $25k
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 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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…
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…
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
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,…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cradles to Crayons Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicago Football Classic Scholarship Fund 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 28 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 63 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 PLUMMER YOUTH PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF KING COUNTY ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds SPUR INC ↗
- Who funds THE HERREN PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SALEM MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds SWEDEN FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MARBLEHEAD BOOSTERS CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT-U FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds ON COURSE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds GOLDTHWAIT RESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOVELL LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Greater Houston ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: 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
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 Coughlin Family 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.
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Plummer Youth Promise Inc — 64% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Marblehead Counseling Center — 2% of income from government
- Spur Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.