· Public charity
The Lowell General Hospital
To meet the healthcare needs of communities served through the provision of inpatient and outpatient medical services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $50,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $78,924 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $28,674 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NASHOBA VALLEY SKI AREA | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL | $16,250 |
| D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE | $9,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down.
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; $0 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
- LPLowell Plan Inc6× · 2017–2022 · $67k · revenue +1%
Community Teamwork Inc2× · 2022–2023 · $63k · revenue +12%- DSD'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $54k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- GLGREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE CHNA 10 INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $343k · revenue +84% · 91% of their budget
- PFPROJECT FIT AMERICAone grant, 2018 · $21k · revenue -58%
- NDNOTRE DAME CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL LAWRENCEone grant, 2017 · $18k
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.
Lowell telecommunication corporation's mission is to strengthen the city of lowell as a community media and education center that empowers, connects, and informs all residents, businesses, and organizations in the city. ltc provides…
Glhfc's mission is to improve and maintain the health of individuals and families in the merrimack valley by providing a network of high quality, comprehensive health care services and by training health care professionals who can respond…
Lowell makes is a collection of open workshops and laboratories where members and students can collaborate to learn, share, and hone crafts of all kinds. the focus is on providing a space for education, entrepreneurship, and engagement…
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
To develop, own, and operate affordable housing for low and moderate income persons and families in Lowell, Massachusetts, and other communities in Northern Massachusetts.
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…
Mental health association of greater lowell, inc. provides quality mental health services and joins with other healthcare providers in the development of a comprehensive network of community mental health services.
Laboure college provides high-quality education and prepares women and men for careers in nursing and allied health fields.
Our mission, vision and values are our guiding light. together, we bring them to life with our care, our actions, our learning and our commitment to excellence.at tufts medicine, we know the power of community. it's that feeling of being…
To meet the healthcare needs of communities served through the provision of inpatient and outpatient medical services. to provide services, programs and initiatives to improve the health and quality of life of the citizens in the area,…
Improve access to health services in the community of lynn, massachusetts and to support of the mission of lynn community health center. in addition, to hold title to real estate at 269 union street in lynn, massachusetts.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lowell Community Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Emmanuel. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 46 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 GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE CHNA 10 INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LOWELL SUN CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOWELL FESTIVAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Lowell Plan Inc ↗
- Who funds Community Teamwork Inc ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOWELL FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds LOWELL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Merrimack Valley Convention and Visitors Bureau Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILL CITY GROWS INC ↗
- Who funds LOWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION C/O JACKSON CHEGE ↗
- Who funds Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT FIT AMERICA ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF GREATER LOWELL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JAMES COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK VALLEY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON THREADS ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE HOME INC ↗
- Who funds UTEC Inc ↗
- Who funds CHELMSFORD POP WARNER FOOTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds D'YOUVILLE SENIOR CARE INC ↗
- Who funds MERRIMACK COLLEGE ↗
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: Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · We Share A Common Thread Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Richard K & Nancy L Donahue Charitable Foundation · Lowell Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Greater Lowell Health Alliance Chna 10 Inc · Demoulas Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Lowell Sun Charities Inc · Aubert J Fay Charitable Fund · Theodore Edson Parker 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 Lowell General Hospital 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.
- Utec Inc — 46% of income from government
- Lowell Community Health Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greater Lowell Inc — 27% of income from government
- Community Teamwork Inc — 23% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Lowell Festival Foundation — 12% of income from government
- William James College Inc — 11% of income from government
- Mill City Grows Inc — 7% of income from government
- Project Learn Inc — 5% of income from government
- Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Greater Lowell — 3% of income from government
- Lowell Plan Inc — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack Repertory Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Greater Lowell Chamber of Commerce Inc — 0% of income from government
- Massachusetts Medical Society — 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.