· Private foundation
The Maclean Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SNP FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS OF LESS THAN 500 PAID TO EACH GROUP | $4,975 |
| LUCY'S HEARTH | $1,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH AT HOME VNA | $1,000 |
| A SAFE PLACE INC | $750 |
| SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| HARVEY FOUNDATION INC | $500 |
| FAIRHAVEN HIGH SCHOOL HALL OF FAME | $500 |
| TAPS | $500 |
| NANTUCKET ATHENEUM | $500 |
| TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY22–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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.
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 +37% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 7 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, 20% 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
- NBNEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM5× · 2018–2023 · $13k · revenue +179%
- LHLUCY'S HEARTH6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +42%
- SHSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- SKSTAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2021 · $4k
- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $3k
- CFCATHOLIC FOUNDATION OF SE MASSone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The purpose of the corporation is to act as a not-for-profit organization with a primary mission of promoting the health of nantucket islands harbor and its marine ecosystem. the corporation will work with the nantucket department of…
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The alliance to protect nantucket sound is a 501(c)(3) non-profit environmental organization dedicated to the permanent preservation of nantucket sound, the historic body of water that lies between cape cod, martha's vineyard, and…
South shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
South shore hospital's primary exempt purpose is to provide health care services to the community including surgical, medical and other treatment of the sick and injured. south shore health system has an overarching mission for every…
New england legal foundation (nelf) is the leading non-profit public interest law firm in the region addressing policy and constitutional concerns related to free enterprise. its mission is promoting public discourse on the proper role of…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Boating Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 73 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 NEW BEDFORD STAR KIDS SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds LUCY'S HEARTH ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Newport Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET LIGHTHOUSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds EB RESEARCH PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE HARBORSAVE THE BAY INC ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds A SAFE PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Port Society ↗
- Who funds CASHMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
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: Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Enable Hope Foundation · Thomas a Rodgers Jr Family Foundation · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · Island Foundation 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 Maclean Charitable Foundation 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.
- A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
- New Bedford Port Society — 41% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Boating Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- South Florida Pbs 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.