· Private foundation
The Henry Vincent Couper Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 78% of THE HENRY VINCENT COUPER CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LITTLETON COUNCIL OF AGING | $8,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| LITTLETON ROAD RACE TRACK ORGANIZATION | $1,000 |
| THINK OUTSIDE THE VOX | $1,000 |
| SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| LITTLETON ROTARY CLUB OF MA | $1,000 |
| OPEN DOOR THEATRE | $500 |
| TOWN OF SHIRLEY | $100 |
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 (FY20–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
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 +36% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- ODOPEN DOOR THEATRE OF ACTON INC5× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +931%
- LSLittleton Scholarship Trust4× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +36%
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $10k · revenue +147%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF REUBEN HOAR LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $8k
- LALOAVES AND FISHESone grant, 2017 · $3k
- LALITTLETON ATHLETIC BOOSTERS ASSOCIAone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
Provide instruction and opportunity for children to participate in sports in order to promote a sense of fair play and healthy competition.
The Littleton Community Center (LCC) is the living historical and social centerpiece of Littleton. A historic property available to the public for meetings, community events, and social gatherings.
Provide educational, social, and cultural programming for the enrichment of the community of Little Compton, Rhode Island.
250th Town of Cohasset, MA celebrations
The Actors Company of Natick ACON creates theatre with purpose. At ACON, we celebrate artists and challenge community perspectives through equitable, professional and accessible productions.
To promote the protection and stewardship of open space and natural resources in the Town of Westwood.
Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA
The North Shore Children's Theater provides an inclusive and affordable theater arts education to children in the North Shore of Massachusetts and surrounding areas.
Provide nourishing food and basic necessities to the residents of Little Compton and Tiverton Rhode Island.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 40 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 OPEN DOOR THEATRE OF ACTON INC ↗
- Who funds Littleton Scholarship Trust ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA VALLEY CHORALE INC THE ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON COMMUNITY FARM ↗
- Who funds SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON TRACK ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THINK OUTSIDE THE VOX ↗
- Who funds THE ROUDENBUSH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Littleton Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SUDBURY VALLEY TRUSTEES INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLETON CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds Littleton Tigers Youth Football & Cheer ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds DOLI ATAMIAN CAMPERSHIP PROGRAM INC ↗
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.
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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 Henry Vincent Couper Charitable 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.
- Nashoba Valley Chorale Inc the — 11% of income from government
- Sudbury Valley Trustees Inc — 11% of income from government
- Open Door Theatre of Acton Inc — 5% of income from government
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Think Outside the Vox — 2% 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.
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