· Private foundation
The Maurice and Anne Makepeace Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of THE MAURICE AND ANNE MAKEPEACE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k15 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $137k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TABOR ACADEMY | $30,000 |
| WAREHAM PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| THE MARION INSTITUTE INC | $17,000 |
| THE FAMILY PANTRY - DAMIEN'S PLACE | $15,000 |
| THE NATIVITY PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM | $10,000 |
| OUR SISTERS' SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD ART MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY NURSE HOME CARE | $10,000 |
| SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| BUZZARDS BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF MARION COA | $5,000 |
| RD STILLMAN MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP | $5,000 |
| EVERGREEN HOUSE INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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
- TATABOR ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $241k · revenue +92%
- AMArt Museum New Bedford Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +68%
THE MARION INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $78k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- WPWareham Public Schoolone grant, 2022 · $4k
- CFCommunity Foundation of Southeasterone grant, 2020 · $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.
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Homecare services and home health aide services.
To provide community access cable channels and the use of video equipment to residents in and around Newburyport, MA
To improve the health of our community through the provision of equitable, patient centered, high quality, compassionate care to all, regardless of ability to pay.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
Penobscot Bay Medical Center (PBMC) is an acute care hospital that offers inpatient and outpatient care, diagnostic, therapeutic and rehabilitative services, patient and community education, and a full range of specialty services through…
We create opportunities for the people of massachusetts to transform their lives and build a more equitable commonwealth through the humanities.
None
Maine Media Workshops & College educates and inspires visual artists and storytellers to achieve their creative potential. We provide lifelong learning opportunities for those pursuing the fine arts and media-related professions. We are…
The mission of a Chamber of Commerce is to advocate for local businesses, promote economic development, and enhance the quality of life in the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Our Sisters School and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Marion Coa Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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. 19 of the 34 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 TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds THE MARION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds OUR SISTERS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds EVERGREEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEDFORD WOMEN'S CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds Buzzards Bay Area Habitat For Humanity Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MARION COA INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CRANBERRY RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY PANTRY- DAMIEN'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds The Wareham Library Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY MUSICFEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST HEALTH SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Mental Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Cape Cod Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOULD ACADEMY ↗
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: The Ludes Family Foundation · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Maurice and Anne Makepeace Family 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.
- New Bedford Women's Center Inc — 84% of income from government
- South Shore Mental Health Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Family Pantry- Damien's Place — 36% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Cape Cod Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc — 1% of income from government
- Our Sisters School — 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.
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