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The Gregory Foundation Trust at a glance

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The Gregory 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.

$150k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$258kRecreation & Sports$104kEnvironment$90kArts & Culture$88kReligion$88kHuman Services$40kYouth Development$40kFood & Nutrition$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WELLESLEY COLLEGE$50,000
DEDHAM FOOD PANTRY$20,000
CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION$15,000
SAVE THE BAY$15,000
FABNEWPORT$10,000
FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS$5,000
DEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC$5,000
BUZZARDS BAY COALITION$5,000
DEDHAM MUSEUM & ARCHIVES$5,000
DANNY'S PLACE$5,000
AMERICAN SALTWATER GUIDES ASSOCIATION$5,000
HALE EDUCATION$5,000
DEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE$5,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FRIEND OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS: $31k → 7%DANNY'S PLACE: $15k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $5k → 11%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15k → 16%THE OPERA BUFFS INC: $5k → 14%AMERICAN SALTWATER GUIDES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING: $15k → 7%SAVE THE BAY: $15k → 14%MACKENSIE'S MISSION: $10k → 6%AMERICAN FRIENDS FOR THE PRESERVATIONS OF CZECH CULTURE: $5k → 7%DANNY'S PLACE: $10k → 8%BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $5k → 11%ST PAUL'S CHURCH: $15k → 16%AMERICAN SALTWATER GUIDES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 6%CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%SAVE THE BAY: $15k → 14%FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS: $5k → 7%DANNY'S PLACE: $5k → 8%ST PAUL'S CHURCH: $10k → 16%CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $15k → 7%SAVE THE BAY: $10k → 14%DANNY'S PLACE: $5k → 8%ST PAUL'S CHURCH: $5k → 16%FABNEWPORT: $15k → 7%SAVE THE BAY: $10k → 14%MILTON ACADEMY: $8k → 7%BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT: $10k → 8%EPIPHANY SCHOOL: $5k → 16%FABNEWPORT: $15k → 7%SAVE THE BAY: $5k → 14%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $33k → 7%BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT: $5k → 8%FABNEWPORT: $10k → 7%ST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $25k → 7%THOMPSON ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND: $5k → 16%DEDHAM FOOD PANTRY: $20k → 7%TOWN OF DEDHAM: $10k → 7%AFPCC: $5k → 7%DEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 7%HALE RESERVATION DAY CAMP: $27k → 7%HALE RESERVATION DAY CAMP: $10k → 7%HALE RESERVATION: $10k → 7%HALE RESERVATION: $9k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $57k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $50k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $50k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $48k → 7%WELLESLEY COLLEGE: $23k → 7%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 44% of The Gregory Foundation Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in MA; by stated purpose, 51%.

The Gregory Foundation Trustlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$700k · 17 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +16% since the first grant, against -10% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
9

Total granted

$700k
$78k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
-10%

Still filing today

71%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthRecreation & SportsScience & 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

  • WC
    Wellesley College
    5× · 2019–2025 · $228k · revenue +36%
  • HE
    HALE EDUCATION INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +55%
  • SAVE THE BAY INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $55k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $15k
  • NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +53%
  • MM
    MACKENZIES MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +137%
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
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
2
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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3
New England Lawboston

New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…

Education
4
Trustees of Boston University

Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…

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5
Bowdoin International Music Festival

The mission of the Bowdoin International Music Festival is to provide gifted young musicians from around the world with an opportunity to study with world-class artists, and to provide audiences with classical music performed to the…

Arts & Culture
6
Sea Education Association Inc

Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…

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7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
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
10
University of Massachusetts Amherst Alumni Association Inc

To promote the interests of the university of massachusetts amherst through programs, services and communications that develop and reinforce the bonds between the university and its alumni; to validate the value and alumni pride in the…

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11
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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12
Dean College

Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc; the most unlike its peers is Mackenzies Mission. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 26 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
9/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Wellesley College: $228,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeFABNEWPORT INC: $40,000 · EducationFABNEWPORT INCNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 · Education+2 more: $15,291 · EducationST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $57,500 · OtherST PAUL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHDANNY'S PLACE: $35,000 · OtherDANNY'S PLACEST PAUL'S CHURCH: $30,000 · OtherST PAUL'S CHURCHDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $25,000 · OtherDedham Food Pantry Charitable…Individual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientTOWN OF DEDHAM: $10,000 · OtherDEDHAM MUSEUM & ARCHIVES: $10,000 · OtherDEDHAM COMMUNITY HOUSE: $10,000 · Other+2 more: $10,000 · OtherSAVE THE BAY INC: $55,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE BAY …CONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EnvironmentCONANICUT ISL…BUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $10,000 · EnvironmentBUZZARDS BAY …FRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $43,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF …BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $15,250 · Arts & CultureBOSTON MODE…DEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED: $10,000 · Arts & CultureDEDHAM SCHO…THE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE OPERA B…ALBANY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $4,750 · Arts & CultureALBANY MUSI…HALE EDUCATION INC: $69,000 · Recreation & SportsHALE EDUCA…AMERICAN SALTWATER GUIDES ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 · Science & TechMACKENZIES MISSION: $10,000 · Health
Education$298,291Other$202,500Environment$95,000Arts & Culture$78,000Recreation & Sports$69,000Science & Tech$25,000Health$10,000

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 budgetWellesley College: $228,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHALE EDUCATION INC: $69,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSAVE THE BAY INC: $55,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LOBKOWICZ COLLECTIONS INC: $43,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFABNEWPORT INC: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCONANICUT ISLAND SAILING FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDedham Food Pantry Charitable Trust: $25,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetAMERICAN SALTWATER GUIDES ALLIANCE INC: $25,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetBOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC: $15,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEDHAM SCHOOL OF MUSIC INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetBUZZARDS BAY COALITION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILTON ACADEMY: $7,791 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPERA BUFFS INC CO MONA LANDS: $5,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetALBANY MUSIC FOUNDATION INC: $4,750 over 1y, 23% 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 IncJonesLippincott Famil…Dedham Institution fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Boston Foundation IncMA16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · JonesLippincott Family Foundation · Dedham Institution for Savings Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Buzzards Bay Coalition: 37% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
  • The Epiphany School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Gregory Foundation Trust?

Find your warmest path to The Gregory Foundation Trust 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 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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