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The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE LINDA HAMMETT ORY & ANDREW ORY CHARITABLE TRUST’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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k53 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $88k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
- $250k+5 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $2,000,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY (PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE) | $491,568 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $400,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY (PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE) | $350,000 |
| AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATER | $330,840 |
| BREAKTIME UNITED INC | $100,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $50,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN COUNCIL ON AGING | $34,333 |
| DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK & MUSEUM | $23,750 |
| DECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK & MUSEUM | $20,000 |
| KEREM SHALOM | $10,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES | $5,000 |
| LIVING CITY PROJECT INC | $5,000 |
| BIG SISTER ASSOCIATON OF GREATER BOSTON | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 58 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 1 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; $1k 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
- DADECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +15%
- CACONCORD ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +70%
AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +43%
Funded once
- WPWORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2017 · $89k
- RCREYNOLDS CENTER TLCone grant, 2023 · $50k
- DSDECORDOVA SCULPTURE PARK & MUSEUM (THE TRUSTESS OF THE RESEVATION)one grant, 2022 · $29k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn and the most unlike its peers is The Renfrew Center Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 112 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 President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds THE FENN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTIME UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT GLIMMER ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds CODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds MEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds US MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · The Jaket Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Pobble Stone Foundation · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc
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 Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Vinfen Corporation — 83% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- International Institute of New England Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- William James College Inc — 11% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- New England Deaconess Association — 6% of income from government
- Gaining Ground Inc — 5% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Welcome Home Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- American Physical Society — 1% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Concord Antiquarian Society D/B/a Concord Museum — 1% of income from government
- Beacon Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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