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The Fleetwing Charitable Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Fleetwing Charitable Foundation Trust

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.

$263k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Housing & Shelter$385kArts & Culture$276kEnvironment$252kEducation$248kHuman Services$226kHealth$84kEmployment$70kRecreation & Sports$31kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $185k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FARMING FALMOUTH INC$50,000
LOWELLS MARITIME FOUNDATION DBA LOWELLS BOAT SHOP$40,000
HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC$25,000
FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST INC$25,000
NATURAL RESOURCES TRUST OF EASTON$25,000
NORTH CHELMSFORD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC$20,000
BELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC$20,000
COMPANION ANIMAL PROGRAM INC$20,000
THE NEMASKET GROUP INC$10,000
HELPING HANDS AND HOOVES$5,000
WOODLANDS CONSERVANCY$2,500
PASADENA HUMANE SOCIETY$2,500
MAKAH CULTURAL AND RESEACH CENTER$2,500
FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC$2,500
ROSIES PLACE INC$2,500
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIPOSA DR FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $500 → 16%HOMES FOR BLACK CHILDREN: $1k → 21%SISTER SONG INC: $1k → 13%CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5k → 8%MARIPOSA DR FOUNDATION: $2k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $45k → 8%COLUMBIA COUNTY SANCTUARY MOVEMENT: $1k → 11%FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $30k → 8%PINE STREET INN INC: $50k → 16%FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $10k → 8%PINE STREET INN INC: $35k → 16%FRIENDS OF MARION COA: $40k → 8%PINE STREET INN INC: $25k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $20k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $5k → 16%PINE STREET INN INC: $4k → 16%MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC: $1k → 16%NEW ENGLANDS WOUNDED VETERANS INC: $1k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $3k → 16%STRONG WOMEN STRONG GIRLS INC: $2k → 16%VETERANS ADVOCACY SERVICES: $3k → 8%SOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $5k → 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

AK
ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
KY
MD
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 34 repeat orgs$687k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.

34 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
89

Total granted

$1.3M
$556k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+14%

Still filing today

97%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $132k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
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

  • FH
    FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST
    5× · 2020–2025 · $200k · revenue +277%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $159k · revenue +123%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP
    4× · 2018–2022 · $111k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2024 · $61k · revenue 0%
  • OI
    OARS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $60k · revenue +1%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MARION COA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -18% · 51% of their budget
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 Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
2
Volunteer Lawyers Project of the Boston Bar Association Inc

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.

Crime & Legal
3
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

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

—
4
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
5
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
6
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
7
Metropolitan Boston Housing Partnership Inc D/B/a Metro Housing Boston

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.

Housing & Shelter
8
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
9
Walkboston Inc

Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.

Unclassified
10
United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc

Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.

—
11
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
12
Massachusetts Fair Housing Center Inc

Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fenway Community Health Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

115 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. 115 of the 136 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
113/115
Grantees still filing
77/115
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $200,000 · OtherFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUSTFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $82,500 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCTROUT UNLIMITED: $32,000 · OtherBIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $25,000 · OtherFARMING FALMOUTH INC: $50,000 · OtherFARMING FALMOUTH INCTHE NEMASKET GROUP INC: $46,000 · OtherTHE NEMASKET GROUP INC+68 more: $261,500 · Other+68 moreLowell's Maritime Foundation Inc: $81,700 · Arts & CultureLowell's Maritime …HISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC HIGHFIELD…MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $61,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUS…CAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $40,000 · Arts & CultureCAHOON MUSEUM OF A…MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $40,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF FINE ART…+8 more: $24,000 · Arts & Culture+8 morePINE STREET INN INC: $158,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN I…FRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE SE…FRIENDS OF MARION COA INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF MARION…+13 more: $30,000 · Human Services+13 moreBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $90,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY C…NASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentNASHUA RIVER W…OARS INC: $60,000 · EnvironmentOARS INCNATURAL RESOURCES TRUST OF EASTON: $25,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOUR…+2 more: $9,500 · EnvironmentTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $111,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF L…UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF…Town of Chelmsford Scholarship Fund Inc: $25,000 · EducationTown of Chelm…DARROW SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationDARROW SCHOOLCHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $15,000 · EducationCHELMSFORD FR…PARKER SCHOOL PTO INC: $10,000 · EducationEMERSON COLLEGE: $10,000 · Education+3 more: $8,500 · EducationMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 · HealthHELPING HANDS AND HOOVES INC: $20,000 · HealthSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $15,000 · HealthSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $12,500 · HealthMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $8,500 · Health+4 more: $5,000 · HealthBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $56,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSE OF TULIP: $6,500 · Housing & ShelterROSIE'S PLACE INC: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter+5 more: $8,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$697,000Arts & Culture$326,700Human Services$313,500Environment$244,500Education$234,500Health$86,000Housing & Shelter$73,000

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 budgetFALMOUTH HOUSING TRUST: $200,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $158,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP: $111,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE SENIOR CENTER INC: $85,000 over 2y, 64% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC: $82,500 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetLowell's Maritime Foundation Inc: $81,700 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetHISTORIC HIGHFIELD INC: $80,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $61,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNASHUA RIVER WATERSHED ASSOC INC: $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetOARS INC: $60,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBELONGING TO EACH OTHER INC: $56,000 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFARMING FALMOUTH INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetTHE NEMASKET GROUP INC: $46,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCAHOON MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRIENDS OF MARION COA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetMUSEUM OF FINE ARTS: $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Chelmsford Scholarship Fund Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES TRUST OF EASTON: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBIKES NOT BOMBS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARROW SCHOOL: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCompanion Animal Program Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetHELPING HANDS AND HOOVES INC: $20,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetBIKES FOR KIDS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCHELMSFORD FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY: $15,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTH CAROLINA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED SOCIETY OF SHAKERS SABBATHDAY LAKE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOWELL MAKES INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK LIVES MATTER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetROOT NS INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF MASSACHUSETTS AND RHODE ISLAND INC: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMUTUAL AID DISASTER RELIEF INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMINNESOTA FREEDOM FUND: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF TULIP: $6,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL INNOVATION FORUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCRADLES TO CRAYONS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARION LIBRARY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,000 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.

Greater Lowell Commun…Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncAmerican Tower Corpor…Amalgamated Charitabl…Rockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…We Share A Common Thr…Borealis PhilanthropyIsland Foundation IncCape Cod Five Cents S…Massachusetts Bankers…
Greater Lowell Community Foundation IncMA27.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 136 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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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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