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The Creighton Narada Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $55k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $265k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $670k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Lynn | $100,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt Association | $100,000 |
| Manchester Essex Conservation Tr Inv | $100,000 |
| Peabody Essex Museum Inc | $100,000 |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $75,000 |
| Trustees of Reservations | $75,000 |
| Museum of Science | $70,000 |
| Trustees of Boston University | $50,000 |
| Vinalhaven Land Trust Inc | $40,000 |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $40,000 |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $35,000 |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services Inc | $35,000 |
| Cape Ann Museum Inc | $30,000 |
| White Horse Stepstone | $25,000 |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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 — 13 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $500k · revenue +491%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust5× · 2020–2024 · $410k · revenue +11%- MOMUSEUM OF SCIENCE5× · 2020–2024 · $350k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- NMNEVA MUSEUMone grant, 2023 · $5k
- IIIsland Institutegraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +109%
- BHBEVERLY HOSPITALone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
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.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
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…
Maine Historical Society, founded in 1822, is a private non-profit whose mission is to preserve and share Maine's story. Based in Portland, we work closely with communities and partners throughout the state, and serve a statewide and…
Conservation and preservation of land.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Trustees of Reservations and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 46 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF LYNN INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VINALHAVEN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MAINE INITIATIVESINC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HORSE STEPSTONE ↗
- Who funds CUTCHINS PROGRAMS FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHAMPTON SURVIVAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Creighton Narada Foundation 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.
- Community Action Pioneer Valley — 62% of income from government
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Community Involved in Sustaining Agriculture Inc — 35% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Peabody Essex Museum Inc — 3% of income from government
- Northampton Survival Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 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.
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