· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE JAMES & VERONICA CHESTERTON FAMILY 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 |
|---|---|
| THE IRELAND FUNDS | $5,300 |
| EN KA SOCIETY INC | $3,000 |
| SCLERODERMA FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| LYRIC STAGE COMPANY OF BOSTON | $2,000 |
| LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL | $2,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS EYE & EAR | $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 |
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 (FY17–25, $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 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.
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.
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
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
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 +195%
- GHGREATER HOUSTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION - HURRICAN HARVEY RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2017 · $4k
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH MATTERSone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Boston Food Bank Inc and the most unlike its peers is Irish Educational Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 33 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 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 ↗
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: 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
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 James & Veronica Chesterton Family 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.
- 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
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.