· Private foundation
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 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
- 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 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS | $50,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $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 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| GODDARD HOUSE | $5,000 |
| THE TRUSTEES | $5,000 |
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, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +60% since the first grant, against +36% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 112 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.
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- 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 HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC ↗
- Who funds BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc ↗
- Who funds US MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds KENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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