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The Cricket Foundation Jennifer L Grigg

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.

$3.8M
Granted FY2023
25
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2023.

Arts & Culture$2.4MEnvironment$853kEducation$450kAnimals$170kFood & Nutrition$156kHuman Services$155kRecreation & Sports$10kYouth Development$5kOther$0
02FY2023 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$150,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$183k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ipswich River Watershed Assoc$150,000
North Bennett Street School$150,000
Cape Ann Museum$150,000
The Nature Conservancy$150,000
Boston Lyric Opera$150,000
Essex County Greenbelt Assoc$150,000
Worcester Art Museum$150,000
Boston Singers Resource$150,000
New England Conservatory of Music$150,000
Berklee College of Music$150,000
Fuller Craft Museum$150,000
Windrush Farm$150,000
Trustees Of Reservations$150,000
Mass Audubon$150,000
Center for Coastal Studies$150,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $150k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Windrush Farm: $150k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
WA
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
NC
HI
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

5%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$215k · 3 repeat orgs$3.8M to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
45

Total granted

$215k
$364k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FA
    FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +41%
  • TE
    THE ESOTERICS
    3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +35%
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • MA
    Middlebury Area Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +79%
  • AR
    ARTS RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +47%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Guild of Boston Artists Inc
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2
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
3
Boston Center for the Arts Inc

Boston center for the arts (bca) is a not-for-profit performing and visual arts campus that supports working artists to create, perform, and exhibit new works; develops new audiences; and connects the arts to the community.

Arts & Culture
4
Boston Baroque Inc

The organization operates america's first permanent period orchestra and chorus which reach local, national, and international audiences through a subscription series, touring engagements, recordings, and broadcasts.

Arts & Culture
5
Salt Marsh Opera Company

To stage the finest professional opera productions in Southeastern New England. To excite and build audiences for the enjoyment of a grand art form. To offer educational programs and creative community outreach events that expand the opera…

Arts & Culture
6
Bridgehampton Chamber Music Associates Inc

The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.

Arts & Culture
7
Atlantic Symphony Orchestra Inc

Organize and perform orchestra and chamber music performances for the south shore of boston and beyond.

Arts & Culture
8
Boston Arts Summer Institute Inc
Recreation & Sports
9
Southern Vermont Arts Center Inc Po Box 617

As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.

Arts & Culture
10
Trustees of the Berkshire Museum

Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.

Arts & Culture
11
New England Museum Association

New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.

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12
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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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Contemporary Art; the most unlike its peers is The Esoterics. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 72 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
53/53
Grantees still filing
41/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $160,000 · Arts & CultureFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN…BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANYWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $150,000 · Arts & CultureWORCESTER ART MUSEUMBOSTON SINGERS RESOURCE INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SINGERS RESOURCE INCPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $150,000 · Arts & CulturePEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INCFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INCCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $150,000 · Arts & CultureCAPE ANN MUSEUM INCSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTI…+18 more: $168,000 · Arts & Culture+18 moreMSPCA Nevins Farm: $150,000 · OtherMSPCA Nevins FarmArt Complex Museum Duxbury: $150,000 · OtherArt Complex Museum DuxburyManninen Center for the Arts at Endicott: $150,000 · OtherManninen Center for the Arts at Endi…THE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCYMass College of Art & Design: $150,000 · OtherMass College of Art & DesignLongy School of Music of Bard College: $150,000 · OtherLongy School of Music of Bard Colleg…Mass Audubon: $150,000 · OtherMass AudubonNEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB INC: $150,000 · OtherNEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB INC+17 more: $137,000 · Other+17 moreTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $150,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RE…CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $150,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR COASTAL…ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREEN…IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $150,000 · EnvironmentIPSWICH RIVER WATE…+9 more: $88,500 · Environment+9 moreNorth Bennet Street School: $150,000 · EducationNorth Bennet Str…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $150,000 · EducationNEW ENGLAND CONS…BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $150,000 · EducationBERKLEE COLLEGE …Montserrat College Of Art Inc: $150,000 · EducationMontserrat Colle…WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $150,000 · Human ServicesGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 · AnimalsTHE LUCILLE LORTEL FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTREKKERS INC: $5,000 · Recreation & Sports
Arts & Culture$1,378,000Other$1,337,000Environment$688,500Education$600,000Human Services$150,000Animals$10,000Philanthropy$10,000Recreation & Sports$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC: $160,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetBOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNorth Bennet Street School: $150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWORCESTER ART MUSEUM: $150,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON SINGERS RESOURCE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 82% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC: $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCAPE ANN MUSEUM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC: $150,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSTERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE: $150,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB INC: $150,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetIPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION: $150,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetTHE ESOTERICS: $40,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMiddlebury Area Land Trust: $12,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND FORESTRY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetWOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEATTLE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMBER CHORAL ARTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetFlying House Productions: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBANITY DANCE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTOWE STORY LABS INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetANIKAYA AKHRA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPALAVER STRINGS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetEASTPORT ARTS CENTER: $6,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $5,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCENTER FOR CONTEMPORARY ART: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVERMONT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT SUMMERFEST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Boston Foundation IncAmelia Peabody Charit…Onion FoundationEastern Bank Foundati…Highland Street Conne…Maine Community Found…Ibm International Fou…Haven TrustMattina R Proctor Fou…Fidelity Non-Profit M…Morton-Kelly Charitab…Davis Family Foundati…
Boston Foundation IncMA30.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Haven Trust · Mattina R Proctor Foundation · Fidelity Non-Profit Management Foundation · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust · Davis Family Foundation

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Cricket Foundation Jennifer L Grigg funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Cricket Foundation Jennifer L Grigg. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • New England Forestry Foundation Inc: 88% of income from government
  • Ipswich River Watershed Association: 68% of income from government
  • Cape Ann Museum Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Center for Coastal Studies Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Anikaya Akhra Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Essex County Greenbelt Association: 8% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Symphony Orchestra Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Montserrat College of Art Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Boston Lyric Opera Company: 3% of income from government
  • Peabody Essex Museum Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Stowe Story Labs Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Middlebury Area Land Trust: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
  • Urbanity Dance Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • New England Conservatory of Music: 1% of income from government
  • Fuller Craft Museum Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Worcester Art Museum: 1% of income from government
  • Berklee College of Music Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Ballet Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 72 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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