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The Croll 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.

$852k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$3.4MEducation$2.1MArts & Culture$1.2MHealth$944kYouth Development$536kReligion$176kCivil Rights$110kRecreation & Sports$87kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k23 grants · $59k
  • $10k–50k26 grants · $393k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $400k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$9.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY$100,000
GREENWICH COUNTY DAY SCHOOL$50,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON$50,000
CORNELL UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS$50,000
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON$50,000
REACH PREP INC$30,000
CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC$25,000
FRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC$25,000
BOSTON CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$25,000
OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY$25,000
HISTORIC NEW ENGLAND$25,000
CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER$22,000
CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS$20,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 82% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $250k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $150k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $250k → 7%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $250k → 10%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $100k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 9%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $200k → 7%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $50k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $150k → 7%MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $50k → 16%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $100k → 7%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $100k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50k → 7%SIPPICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $100k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50k → 7%SIPPICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%SIPPICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $50k → 8%CORNELL UNIVERSITY: $50k → 16%ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION: $100k → 11%ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS: $83k → 16%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $500k → 11%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $300k → 11%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $200k → 11%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100k → 11%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100k → 11%MASS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $100k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $100k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100k → 11%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY: $51k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $100k → 11%BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S HOSPITAL: $50k → 16%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $50k → 11%THE TRUSTEES: $75k → 16%THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $50k → 16%BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON: $50k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $200k → 16%BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $100k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NH
NY
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RI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.4M · 58 repeat orgs$281k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

58 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

58
27

Total granted

$8.4M
$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+27%

Still filing today

72%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • BUZZARDS BAY COALITION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +83%
  • THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +50%
  • Cornell University
    7× · 2017–2024 · $755k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LYCEUM FELLOWSHIP INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -55%
  • NC
    NEWTON CONSERVATORS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $13k · revenue -44%
  • MH
    MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING'S SHELTER ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
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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2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
3
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Massachusetts Business Roundtable Inc

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…

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7
Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
9
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
10
Massachusetts Medical Society

To advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit, and welfare…

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11
Marine Biological Laboratory

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…

Science & Tech
12
University of New Haven

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…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Bedford Light and the most unlike its peers is The Lyceum Fellowship 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHigher Education & Professi…Environmental Action Organi…Private Grantmaking Foundat…Healthcare Delivery SystemsPerforming Arts Organizatio…Social Justice & Advocacy O…Land Conservation & Environ…Local History MuseumsIndependent Schools and Edu…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr21%21%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr13%27%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr21%14%10–20yr20%5%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr13%48%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/71
the rest of the field
11%
5,829/52,801

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.

04the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 101 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
49/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $1,636,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY COALITIONTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $1,262,400 · EnvironmentTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONSMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $372,500 · EnvironmentMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC+8 more — $104,500 · EnvironmentCornell University — $755,000 · EducationCornell UniversityALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC — $416,000 · EducationALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION…OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 · EducationOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSIT…GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $110,000 · EducationGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY S…PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION — $91,000 · EducationSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · Education+8 more — $201,530 · Education+8 moreSippican Historical Society — $236,500 · OtherSippican Historica…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $218,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGH…CHURCH OF THE REDEEMER — $155,600 · OtherCHURCH OF THE REDE…HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL — $130,000 · OtherHARVARD BUSINESS S…CITY YEAR INC — $75,000 · OtherWINTERTHUR MUSEUM — $68,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON — $54,000 · OtherEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 · Other+45 more — $440,250 · Other+45 moreMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $517,084 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF …Old Dartmouth Historical Society — $121,000 · Arts & CultureOld Dartmo…SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $70,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FO…NEW BEDFORD LIGHT — $45,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BEDFOR…OLD STURBRIDGE INC — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+8 more — $29,000 · Arts & CultureChildren's Hospital Corporation — $500,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $78,000 · HealthSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $30,000 · HealthCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $28,000 · Health+2 more — $12,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $299,183 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $225,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $110,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$3,375,400Education$1,833,530Other$1,442,350Arts & Culture$812,084Health$648,000Youth Development$526,183Civil Rights$110,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION — $1,636,000 over 7y, 7.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS — $1,262,400 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCornell University — $755,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS — $517,084 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $500,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC — $416,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $372,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $299,183 over 7y, 19% of budgetSippican Historical Society — $236,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $225,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY — $175,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society — $121,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPARK SCHOOL CORPORATION — $91,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC — $78,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL — $70,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetEMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC — $55,000 over 5y, 7.1% of budgetPIONEER INSTITUTE INC — $55,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEDFORD LIGHT — $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND — $36,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetREACH PREP INC — $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC — $28,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetTHE MARION INSTITUTE INC — $25,350 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM — $25,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE LYCEUM FELLOWSHIP INC — $20,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetPROJECT BREAD-THE WALK FOR HUNGER INC — $19,050 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOUR SISTERS SCHOOL — $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLAND TRUST ALLIANCE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS OUT FRONT INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEWTON CONSERVATORS INC — $12,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST — $11,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMarion Art Center Inc — $11,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIOLOGICAL MEDICINE INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS GOLF ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaine Coast Heritage Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Philanthropy Connection Inc — $9,950 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC — $4,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $3,030 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
  • Who funds ALMA DEL MAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF ST STEPHEN'S YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds Sippican Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
  • Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
  • Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPPINGSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF NEW ENGL ↗
  • Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds SIPPICAN LANDS TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds PIONEER INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
  • Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
  • Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
  • Who funds COURAGEOUS PARENTS NETWORKINC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗

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.

Boston Foundation IncThe Ludes Family Foun…Southcoast Community …Stevenson Family Char…Willow Creek Charitab…Combined Jewish Phila…Eastern Bank Foundati…Miller FoundationThe Quarterdeck Found…Highland Street Conne…Bascom Charitable Fou…Laura M and Peter T G…
Boston Foundation IncMA31.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Ludes Family Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Miller Foundation · The Quarterdeck Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Bascom Charitable Foundation · Laura M and Peter T Grauer 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 Croll 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 260%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Society for the Preservation of New Engl — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
  • Boston Children's Chorus Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Rotch-Jones-Duff House and Garden Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
  • Marion Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
  • Our Sisters School — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
26get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Croll Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Croll Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 101 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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