· Private foundation
The James & Veronica Chesterton Family Foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE IRELAND FUNDS | $5,300 |
| EN KA SOCIETY INC | $3,000 |
| SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR | $2,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| IRISH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION (CHAPEL AND YORK) | $1,000 |
| ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST | $1,000 |
| BABSON OLIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT | $1,000 |
| ENGLISH AT LARGE | $1,000 |
| BIRDSEY CAPE WILDLIFE CENTER | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +28%- EKEN KA SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $23k · revenue +71%
- LSLyric Stage Company of Boston Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- WHWINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +31%
- GHGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - HURRICAN HARVEY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH MATTERSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
Land conservation
The women's foundation of massachusetts, inc. economically empowers women and girls in greater boston and across the commonwealth through creating and funding high impact leadership and economic programs in partnership with women's and…
New england legal foundation (nelf) is the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. its mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of…
Support the advocacy of community hospitals.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
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…
To sustain and enhance lowell observatory's mission of research and education by generating perpetual financial support.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
Massachusetts biomedical initiatives, inc. ("mbi or the organization") is a private non-profit corporation focusing on building up central massachusetts as a global biomanufacturing hub. our mission of being a partner for fostering…
To foster growth of the competitive enterprise system of business in new england; to develop and maintain comprehensive views of new england conditions and problems; to secure recognition of the commonality of economic interest specific to…
Walkmassachusetts makes walking safer and easier in massachusetts to encourage better health, a cleaner environment and vibrant communities.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 33 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds NATIONAL SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EN KA SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Lyric Stage Company of Boston Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds Irish Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH AT LARGE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds ORLEANS CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds RIAN IMMIGRANT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Food Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds OXFAM-AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HIGH SCHOOL PARENT FACULTY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James & Veronica Chesterton Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James & Veronica Chesterton Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- English at Large Inc: 49% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc: 8% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
- Orleans Conservation Trust: 2% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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