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The Dorothea Royer Endicott Charitable Foundation at a glance

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The Dorothea Royer Endicott Charitable Foundation

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$219kEducation$37kEnvironment$17kHuman Services$14kHealth$11kFood & Nutrition$9kHousing & Shelter$9kPublic Benefit$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$790k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEW MUSIC USA$11,000
OPERA PHILADELPHIA$5,000
BETH MORRISON PROJECTS$5,000
VNA CARE$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%GENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $50 → 16%AMERICAN RED CROSS OF MASSACHUSETTS: $50 → 16%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
NE
VA
MD
DC
TX
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$298k · 32 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +84% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
16

Total granted

$298k
$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+84%
+40%

Still filing today

75%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsEnvironmentScience & TechOther
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

  • NM
    NEW MUSIC USA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $106k · revenue +244%
  • PB
    PHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $34k · revenue +37%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    5× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANDWICH CROQUET CLUB INC
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • OU
    OMAHA UNDER THE RADAR
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
  • MUSEUM OF FINE ARTSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +40%
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
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
Trustees of the Public Library of the City of Boston

The Boston Public Library provides educational and cultural enrichment free to all by engaging the public through programming and active spaces, restoring and preserving our history, providing access to borrow from our vast collection of…

Education
4
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
5
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
6
Museum of Arts and Design

To collect, display and interpret objects in craft art and design.

Arts & Culture
7
Aclu Foundation of Massachusetts Inc

Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.

Civil Rights
8
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
9
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Music Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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

36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 50 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
30/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEW MUSIC USA INC: $106,300 · Arts & CultureNEW MUSIC USA INCMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ARTBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC+10 more: $23,350 · Arts & Culture+10 moreGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTER: $9,000 · OtherGENESIS WOMEN'S SHELTERLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $8,000 · OtherLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFU…WGBH: $6,700 · OtherWGBHDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $5,500 · OtherDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INCOMAHA UNDER THE RADAR: $5,000 · OtherOMAHA UNDER THE RADARFAIR FOODS INC: $4,200 · OtherHISTORY PROJECT INC: $4,150 · OtherFENWAY HEALTH DEVELOPMENT: $4,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY & ETHICS: $4,000 · OtherGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society: $3,250 · OtherGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 · OtherMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON: $3,000 · OtherCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $3,500 · Other+15 more: $18,450 · Other+15 morePHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $33,500 · EducationPHILLIPS BROO…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOU…NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $2,400 · EducationNEW ENGLAND C…MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,500 · EnvironmentWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $6,200 · Science & TechSANDWICH CROQUET CLUB INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $2,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$189,650Other$81,750Education$38,900Environment$10,500Science & Tech$6,200Recreation & Sports$5,000Civil Rights$4,000

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 budgetNEW MUSIC USA INC: $106,300 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetPHILLIPS BROOKS HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC: $33,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $15,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc: $6,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDALLAS 24 HOUR CLUB INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANDWICH CROQUET CLUB INC: $5,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetBETH MORRISON PROJECTS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERA PHILADELPHIA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORY PROJECT INC: $4,150 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NASHER SCULPTURE CENTER: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS FOR RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICS IN WASHINGTON INC: $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society: $3,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $2,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S EDUCATIONAL CENTER INC CAMBRIDGE WOMEN'S CENTER: $2,250 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPOWERS MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $2,100 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetACLU Foundation of Texas Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGENESIS WOMENS SHELTER & SUPPORT: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRUB STREET INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSO PERCUSSION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA FAR CRY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGROUNDWORK SOMERVILLE INC: $200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $100 over 2y, 0.0% 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 IncThe Andrew W Mellon F…The Howard and Sarah …The Aaron Copland Fun…Eastern Bank Foundati…The Amphion Foundatio…New Music USA IncCambridge Savings Cha…Rockland Trust Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Boston Foundation IncMA24.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Howard and Sarah D Solomon Foundation · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Amphion Foundation Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · New Music USA Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

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 Dorothea Royer Endicott Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dorothea Royer Endicott Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge: 100% of income from government
  • New Bedford Women's Center Inc: 84% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Groundwork Somerville Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • History Project Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Grub Street Inc: 2% of income from government
  • A Far Cry 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
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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