· Private foundation
The Fleetwing Charitable Foundation Trust
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $85k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $111k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC | $61,000 |
| FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST INC | $50,000 |
| BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC | $25,000 |
| NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC | $25,000 |
| THE CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS | $10,000 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| MUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC | $7,500 |
| TROUT UNLIMITED | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA | $5,000 |
| PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND | $4,500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC | $2,500 |
| SERIOUS FUN CHILDRENS NETWORK INC | $2,500 |
| INTERCEPT MEDIA INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $102k 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
- FHFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST4× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +277%
PINE STREET INN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $159k · revenue +123%- TOTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP4× · 2018–2022 · $111k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- OIOARS INCone grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +1%
- FOFRIENDS OF MARION COA INCone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -18% · 51% of their budget
- TUTROUT UNLIMITEDone grant, 2023 · $32k
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.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of the volunteer lawyers project of the boston bar association is to increase access to justice by delivering high quality pro bono civil legal services to eligible clients in the greater boston area.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Aclu foundation of ma was established to defend freedoms guaranteed in the constitution and bill of rights through public education and litigation.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Montgomery Pride United. 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 34 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
104 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. 104 of the 124 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 FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds OARS INC ↗
- Who funds NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Lowell's Maritime Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MARION COA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEMASKET GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BIKES NOT BOMBS INC ↗
- Who funds DARROW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Town of Chelmsford Scholarship Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds BIKES FOR KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS AND HOOVES INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds UNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LOWELL MAKES INC ↗
- Who funds PARKER SCHOOL PTO INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA ↗
- Who funds BLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
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: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Island Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Fleetwing Charitable Foundation Trust 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.
- Oars Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Nemasket Group Inc — 91% of income from government
- Nashua River Watershed Assoc Inc — 54% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- Fenway Community Health Center Inc — 27% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Kids in Tech Inc — 15% of income from government
- Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc — 15% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% of income from government
- Bikes Not Bombs Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- House of Hope Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lowell Makes Inc — 1% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Historic Highfield Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cahoon Museum of American Art Inc — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Emerson College — 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.