· Private foundation
The Madigan Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $74k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $20,000 |
| NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC | $20,000 |
| FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER | $14,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY | $10,000 |
| COREY C GRIFFIN FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC | $5,000 |
| AYER - SHIRLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| THE BROMFIELD SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MAYNARD FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE CDC | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF READING | $2,500 |
| DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| SOPHIE'S HOPE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MW FUND INC | $1,500 |
| WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE | $1,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 71% 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 +35% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 24 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, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- NSNORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +275%
- LFLOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +28%
- TOTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP4× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- DIDANA-FARBER INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
- SBST BENEDICT ABBEYone grant, 2024 · $3k
- NPNATIVITY PREPATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
Gavin foundation provides substance abuse education, counseling, housing and support services for individuals located in the south boston area of massachusetts and surrounding communities.
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
Hope Strengthens Foundation provides targeted financial support to patients and families facing life-threatening illnesses, disabilities, and traumatic injuries.
Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.
The mission of the boston health care for the homeless program (bhchp) is to provide or assure access to the highest quality health care for all individuals and families experiencing homelessness in our community.
The mission of cancer services of gaston county, inc. is to encourage prevention and early detection of cancer through education and accessible cancer screening services, to render services and rehabilitation to cancer patients; to be a…
The gastric cancer foundation helps patients to face their diagnosis with reliable information, tools to navigate the journey, and a compassionate community that truly understands. the foundation funds research initiatives that contribute…
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cotting School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dan Kelly Foundation 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 27 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 120 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 NORTH STAR FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds Tommy's Place Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CARDIGAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITIES FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds GINNY'S HELPING HAND INC ↗
- Who funds MW FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Up With Books Inc ↗
- Who funds Ayer Shirley Education Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHENDON COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds GARDNER COMMUNITY ACTION COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds THE JOSEPH AND LESLIE CARR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OUR FATHERS TABLE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF HOPE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DRESS FOR SUCCESS BOSTON 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: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Citizens Charitable Foundation · United Way of North Central Mass Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Main Street Group Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Worcester County Food Bank Inc · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Amica Companies 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 Madigan Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Clear Path for Veterans New England Inc — 62% of income from government
- The Second Step Inc — 26% of income from government
- Journey Forward Inc — 20% of income from government
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- North Star Family Services Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hudson Community Food Pantry Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gosnold Inc — 5% of income from government
- Girls On the Run Greater Boston — 4% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Jeremiah's Inn Inc — 2% of income from government
- Heroes in Transition Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cotting School 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.