· Private foundation
The John & Mary Corcoran Family 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k9 grants · $185k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $219k
- $250k+3 grants · $5.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TPI CRADLE TO CAREER GRANTS | $3,400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,593,875 |
| THE PHILANTHROPIC INITIATIVE INC | $674,581 |
| LEAF PROGRAM (SUPPLIESLESLIE COLLEGE) | $119,210 |
| SAINT ROCK HAITI FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING | $50,000 |
| BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST | $30,000 |
| CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S WOMEN & INFANTS CENTER | $25,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $25,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| ROSIE'S PLACE | $25,000 |
| JULIE'S FAMILY LEARNING PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| THE MILTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CROSSROADS FOR KIDS | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $375k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 8% of The John & Mary Corcoran Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +123% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2017–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +47%- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC7× · 2017–2024 · $270k · revenue +150%
- CCCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $215k · revenue +69%
Funded once
EMMANUEL COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $125k · revenue +42%- STST THERESA SCHOOL MINI GRANTone grant, 2022 · $750
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.
Brookview's mission is to help homeless and at risk families learn the skills necessary to break the cycle of homelessness and poverty.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Metro housing boston mobilizes wide-ranging resources to provide innovative and personalized services that lead families and individuals to housing stability, economic security, and an improved quality of life.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
The boston public library fund provides financial support to the boston public library (bpl), ensuring that it remains viable, engaging, accessible, and free to all. the library fund fulfills this mission by working in partnership with…
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
St. Mary's Center for Women and Children (SMC), a multi-service organization supporting women, children, and families, believes shelter is not enough to erase the devastation of cyclical poverty and homelessness.Grounded in social justice,…
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
Public lending library
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 23 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 Boston Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds St Rock Haiti Foundation LTD ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds EMMANUEL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOURNE CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILTON LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF POSSIBILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Julies Family Learning Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CROSSROADS FOR KIDS 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: Arbella Insurance Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The John & Mary Corcoran Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John & Mary Corcoran Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- House of Possibilities Inc: 76% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc: 24% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc: 18% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc: 11% of income from government
- Crossroads for Kids Inc: 1% of income from government
- Emmanuel College: 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc: 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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