· Private foundation
The Joanne E Masin Foundation
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $68k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Connecticut River Museum (Connecticut River Foundation at Steamboat Dock) | $67,839 |
| Jacks Galore Inc | $35,000 |
| Boca Grande Womens Club Inc | $10,000 |
| Gasparilla Island Conservation and Improvement Assoc | $10,000 |
| Boca Grande Pre-School | $10,000 |
| Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation Inc | $5,000 |
| Friends of Boca Grande | $5,000 |
| Barrier Island Park Society | $2,500 |
| High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Essex Elementary School Foundation Inc | $2,500 |
| Falcon Repertory Company | $2,500 |
| Boca Grande Historical Society Inc | $2,000 |
| Essex Historical Society | $2,000 |
| Boca Grande Arts Center | $1,250 |
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 (FY20–21, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC5× · 2020–2024 · $903k · revenue +44% · 31% of their budget
CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC4× · 2020–2023 · $41k · revenue +56%- IPIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $30k · revenue +91%
Funded once
- BGBoca Grande Disaster Relief Fundone grant, 2023 · $25k
- YYMCAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- CFCommunity Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Preserve duxbury beach to safeguard adjacent bays and mainland, protect wildlife and vegetation while welcoming the public to enjoy.
Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…
The mission of the essex yacht club is to promote excellence in yachting activities among its members, including racing, cruising, and off water club activities. to accomplish this mission, the club has developed year-round member…
Manchester essex conservation trust preserves in perpetuity the natural beauty, wildlife habitat, and open space resources in our two towns and adjacent communities. we protect this land through acquisitions, conservation restrictions,…
Our mission is to protect marine life in the gulf of maine through research, education and inspiring action. our most significant activities are studying marine life off the nh coast, conducting over 200 community beach cleanups each year,…
The mission of the atlantic coast conservancy is to provide 21st century solutions and sound scientific applications for conservation of critical natural resources in the face of a changing climate, focusing on the southeasthern united…
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
The Brookdale Park Conservancy works to preserve enhance and promote the park providing a voice for the community and collaborating with Essex County.
Our purpose is to protect and preserve the charlotte harbor/pine island sound estuary system. the culturally and economically important fishery that depends upon this ecosystem is under threat, and new conservation measures are urgently…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barrier Island Parks Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mote Marine Laboratory Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 56 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 THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds JACKS GALORE INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE WOMAN'S CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GASPARILLA ISL CONSER & IMPROVE ASSN ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOCA GRANDE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds BARRIER ISLAND PARKS SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FIRE ENGINE CO NO1 ↗
- Who funds BOCA GRANDE ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The Island School ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOTE MARINE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds COAST GUARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR WHALE RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds PANDEMONIUM RAINFOREST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF ESSEX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SUNCOAST HUMANE SOCIETYINC ↗
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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Kitchings Family Foundation · Gulf Coast Community Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The George and Carol Milne Foundation · Linda & Barry Allen Foundation · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · S & H Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation · Sullivan Family Foundation Foundation · Carbonari Family Foundation · Vick Foundation Inc · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr
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 Joanne E Masin 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Joanne E Masin Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Joanne E Masin Foundation 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.