· Private foundation
The John Ghancock Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ANTHONY MUNOZ FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES COVINGTON | $8,000 |
| THE POINT ARC | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| CENTRAL VERMONT HABITAT HUMANITY | $4,635 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against -28% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TPTHE POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +221%
- AMAnthony Munoz Foundation3× · 2023–2025 · $58k · revenue +36%
- CGCITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES2× · 2017–2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $12k
- NCNEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLICone grant, 2019 · $7k
- NCNEWPORT CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOone grant, 2017 · $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.
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
Tri-state food bank, inc solicits, warehouses, and disburses donated and purchased food products to other not-for-profit entities in indiana, illinois, and kentucky.
Provide food for individuals in need
Provide food and financial assistance to the local community.
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
A community where no one should feel the hurt of hunger. Interfaith Food Ministry feeds the hungry and works to reduce food insecurity in Nevada County. We help to sustain health, human dignity and the opportunity for individuals to…
The mission of the akron-canton regional foodbank is to lead a collaborative network that empowers people to experience healthy and hunger-free lives. we distribute food to feed people and we advocate, engage and convene our community in…
Empowering people with disabilities by providing services that promote independence, equality and intergration, enhancing their quality of life.
To provide food to various charitable organizations and needy individuals in northwest indiana.
It is the mission of thruston county food bank to end hunger within our community.
Abilities First is committed to providing comprehensive services and quality care to each child and adult with special needs to put their abilities first.
The United Way of Cleveland County helps people by uniting resources and programs to responsibly meet the needs of our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Anthony Munoz Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 26 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 POINTARC OF NORTHERN KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds Anthony Munoz Foundation ↗
- Who funds FREESTORE FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds St Rita School For The Deaf ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Easter Seals Tristate ↗
- Who funds CITY GOSPEL MISSION AND AFFILIATES ↗
- Who funds BUCKHORN CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
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: Duke Energy Foundation · Johnson Charitable Gift Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 John Ghancock 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% 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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