· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ipswich River Watershed Assoc | $150,000 |
| The Clark Art Institute | $150,000 |
| Cape Ann Museum | $150,000 |
| The Nature Conservancy | $150,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt Assoc | $150,000 |
| Peabody Essex Museum | $150,000 |
| Trustees Of Reservations | $150,000 |
| Boston Singers Resource | $150,000 |
| Boston Lyric Opera | $150,000 |
| Worcester Art Museum | $150,000 |
| MSPCA Nevins Farm | $150,000 |
| Fine Arts Work Center | $150,000 |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $150,000 |
| Berklee College of Music | $150,000 |
| Manninen Center for the Arts at Endicott | $150,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M 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
- FAFINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC2× · 2021–2023 · $160k · revenue +41%
- TETHE ESOTERICS3× · 2020–2022 · $40k · revenue +35%
SAVE THE BAY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- MAMiddlebury Area Land Trustgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +79%
- GOGULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +46%
- KHKNEISEL HALL CHAMBER MUSIC SCHOOL & FESTIVALone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
The general purpose of the organization is to promote chamber music concerts to the general public.
Organize and perform orchestra and chamber music performances for the south shore of boston and beyond.
As one of New Englands leading visual and performing arts institutions, SVAC's mission is to promote and nurture the arts.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Contemporary Art and 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.
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 45 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 0% 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.
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COASTAL STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds IPSWICH RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Montserrat College Of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds STERLING AND FRANCINE CLARK ART INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SINGERS RESOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON LYRIC OPERA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND POETRY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WINDRUSH FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUITATION INC ↗
- Who funds North Bennet Street School ↗
- Who funds FULLER CRAFT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PEABODY ESSEX MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE ESOTERICS ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds Middlebury Area Land Trust ↗
- Who funds GULF OF MAINE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE VERNON CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds WOONASQUATUCKET RIVER WATERSHED ↗
- Who funds OTTER CREEK MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN CHESTNUT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBANITY DANCE INC ↗
- Who funds EMBER CHORAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MAINE WRITERS AND PUBLISHERS ALLIAN ↗
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 · 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
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 Cricket Foundation Jennifer L Grigg 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.
- 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
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.