· Private foundation
The Ives Family Charitable Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k69 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $265k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSUEM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $30,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $30,000 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| WOODWELL CLIMATE RESEARCH CENTER | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| LEXHAB | $20,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY | $10,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF MASSACHUSETTS BAY | $10,000 |
| GBH | $10,000 |
| THE BOSTON FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| ADDISON COUNTY PARENTCHILD CENTER | $10,000 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
92 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 43 since wound down; 16 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $841k · revenue +123%
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS6× · 2017–2022 · $793k · revenue +29%
MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $521k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- PAPROCTOR ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $11k · revenue +35%
- NPNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- DIDANA-FARBER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +192%
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.
Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The climate institute is organized for the purpose of educating the general public and policy makers as to the gravity of potential climate change, exploring the policy implications of the latest scientific findings on climate modelling…
Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Increase societal understanding of the earth system through scientific research and education.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Leopold Schepp Foundation. 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 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
115 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. 115 of the 187 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 Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc ↗
- Who funds Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds North Branch School Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF ADDISON COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds EARTHWATCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Leopold Schepp Foundation ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Massachusetts Bail Fund ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds Community Health Services of Addison Cty Inc ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC 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.
Open a dossier: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-I · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation
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 Ives Family Charitable 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.
- Atria Collective Inc — 96% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Addison County Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Rehearsal for Life Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc — 4% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Sturgis Library — 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Buckingham Browne & Nichols School — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc — 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.
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