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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.

$3.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$2.0M
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$19MArts & Culture$6.7MScience & Tech$3.5MYouth Development$383kEmployment$305kReligion$210kHealth$155kHuman Services$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

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
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$564k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

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.

area typical 10%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $250 → 14%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $5k → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $5k → 8%HOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $3k → 8%GATEWAY ARTS: $5k → 7%PROJECT GLIMMER: $10k → 10%WELCOME HOME: $5k → 8%PROJECT GLIMMER: $5k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $3k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $3k → 10%PROJECT GLIMMER: $3k → 10%GATEWAY ARTS: $1k → 7%GATEWAY ARTS: $500 → 7%WELCOME HOME: $1k → 8%WELCOME HOME: $1k → 8%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%BOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $1k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $250 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%PINE STREET INN: $200 → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE (MHSA): $500 → 16%MHSA (MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE): $500 → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE (MHSA): $500 → 16%MHSA (MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE): $500 → 16%MASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE (MHSA): $250 → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
CA
MD
AZ
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$24M · 74 repeat orgs$301k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

74
35

Total granted

$24M
$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+36%

Still filing today

66%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DA
    DECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +15%
  • CA
    CONCORD ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +70%
  • AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • WP
    WORCESTER PUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2017 · $89k
  • RC
    REYNOLDS CENTER TLC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • DS
    DECORDOVA 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.

04Its field

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Dean College

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,…

Education
3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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5
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
6
Emmanuel College

Emmanuel college is a coed, residential catholic liberal arts and sciences college with 2,112 undergraduate and graduate students.

Education
7
New England Lawboston

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…

Education
8
Wheaton College

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…

Education
9
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
10
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
11
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

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…

Housing & Shelter
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/69
Grantees still filing
54/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $6,226,250 · OtherHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONHARVARD UNIVERSITY (PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE): $3,995,886 · OtherHARVARD UNIVERSITY (PRESIDENTS AND FELLOWS OF …THE FENN SCHOOL: $1,710,047 · OtherTHE FENN SCHOOL+70 more: $951,115 · Other+70 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,927,512 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard Colleg…CONCORD ACADEMY: $2,744,061 · EducationCONCORD ACADEMYMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $1,285,000 · EducationMIDDLESEX SCHOOL+8 more: $55,351 · EducationDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $4,344,289 · Arts & CultureDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEU…AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $2,238,775 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN REPERTORY THEAT…+11 more: $42,225 · Arts & CultureGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $310,000 · Youth Development+1 more: $2,200 · Youth DevelopmentBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $300,000 · EmploymentPROJECT GLIMMER: $22,500 · Human ServicesHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesWELCOME HOME INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesVINFEN CORPORATION: $6,500 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC: $4,850 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesMASSACHUSETTS HOUSING & SHELTER ALLIANCE: $2,250 · Human Services+1 more: $250 · Human ServicesCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $10,000 · PhilanthropyUS MEXICO FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLYN STACIE GETZ FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $4,200 · Philanthropy
Other$12,883,298Education$11,011,924Arts & Culture$6,625,289Youth Development$312,200Employment$300,000Human Services$58,850Philanthropy$29,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $6,927,512 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDECORDOVA AND DANA MUSEUM & PARK: $4,344,289 over 8y, 22% of budgetCONCORD ACADEMY: $2,744,061 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetAMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC: $2,238,775 over 8y, 5.4% of budgetTHE FENN SCHOOL: $1,710,047 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $1,285,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC: $310,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBREAKTIME UNITED INC: $300,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LINCOLN COUNCIL ON AGING: $35,333 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetRAW ART WORKS INC: $27,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPROJECT GLIMMER: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBIG SISTER ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCODMAN COMMUNITY FARMS INC: $15,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetMEADOWBROOK SCHOOL OF WESTON INCORPORATED: $14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSEHOLD GOODS INC: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC INC: $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF NEW ENGLAND INC: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Foundation for MetroWest Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUS MEXICO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ANTIQUARIAN SOCIETY D/B/A CONCORD MUSEUM: $8,525 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetKENNEBUNKPORT HERITAGE HOUSING TRUST: $7,500 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetLIVING CITY PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWELCOME HOME INC: $7,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetLINCOLN NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetVINFEN CORPORATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC: $6,201 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC: $5,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BALLET INC: $5,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COUNTRY CLUB EMPLOYEE EDUCATION FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHEAST ARC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYN STACIE GETZ FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUASPIRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC: $4,850 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORD ART ASSOCIATION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Food Project Inc: $4,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN MACULAR DEGENERATION GOEHRING: $4,200 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEANNETTE RANKIN FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBEACON ACADEMY INC: $4,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN OLD TOWN HALL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetNEW ENGLAND DEACONESS ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD LEAGUE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 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 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.

Boston Foundation IncMA41× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to The Linda Hammett Ory & Andrew Ory Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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