· Private foundation
The Cove Charitable 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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGE CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL | $41,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MONMOUTH COUNTY | $25,000 |
| YMCA | $23,000 |
| HUNGER FREE AMERICA | $20,000 |
| FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC | $15,000 |
| SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC | $15,000 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $15,000 |
| ST JOHN'S BREAD & LIFE | $15,000 |
| MT DESERT ISLAND BIOLOGICAL LABORATORY | $14,000 |
| ISLAND HOUSING TRUST | $13,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,000 |
| MT ANTHONY UNION HS | $12,000 |
| CHARLES RIVER WATERSHED FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY COALITION INC | $10,000 |
| SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC | $8,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 21%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- AAAYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INC5× · 2018–2022 · $145k · revenue +51%
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION4× · 2022–2025 · $75k · revenue +99%- MWMILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER2× · 2022–2023 · $74k · revenue +55% · 47% of their budget
Funded once
- HHHAVERHILL HOMELESS VETERANSone grant, 2019 · $59k
- NHNEW HAMPSHIRE TURTLE RESCUE INCone grant, 2023 · $43k
- HVHOMELESS VETERANSone grant, 2020 · $34k
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
NOFA-NH actively promotes organic, regenerative, ecologically sound farming, gardening, eating, and land care practices for healthy communities. NOFA-NH helps people build local, just, and sustainable food systems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life and the most unlike its peers is Rails to Trails Conservancy. 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 32 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 61 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 AYLA'S ACRES NO-KILL ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds MILLSTONE WILDLIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NICAPHOTO INC ↗
- Who funds NICA NADADORES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE TURTLE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds St Johns Bread & Life Program Inc ↗
- Who funds SUNY MARITIME FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds GREATER ALBUQUERQUE HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE ↗
- Who funds Saint Louis Fashion Fund ↗
- Who funds Veterans Northeast Outreach Center Inc ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds KINGDOM HOUSE D/B/A LIFEWISE STL ↗
- Who funds SWIM STRONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Marion Art Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Buzzards Bay Area Habitat For Humanity 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: St Louis Community Foundation Inc · Trio Foundation of St Louis · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · United Way of Greater St Louis Inc · Commerce Bancshares Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · 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 Cove Charitable 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.
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Marion Art Center Inc — 1% 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.