· Private foundation
The Melampy-Lawrence Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k15 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+2 grants · $900k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIGHAM AND WOMEN'S | $500,000 |
| DANA FARBER | $400,000 |
| MT SINAI ICAHN SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST | $30,000 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE | $30,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH | $30,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE | $25,000 |
| BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST | $25,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC | $25,000 |
| SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST | $25,000 |
| JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER | $20,000 |
| COMPASSION CONSORTIUM | $15,000 |
| CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| HARVARD UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- DIDANA-FARBER INC7× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +218%
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC6× · 2017–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +62%- DRDUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST9× · 2017–2025 · $639k · revenue +15% · 65% of their budget
Funded once
THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +9%- IMINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPSone grant, 2017 · $60k
- SPSAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $55k · revenue +134%
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.
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
The program mission of the quebec-labrador foundation u.s. is defined by a regional component (new england and eastern canada), and an international component, which ties our regional model to a global conservation network. qlf's program…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 47 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 DANA-FARBER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DUNSTABLE RURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds BARNSTABLE LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVATION FUND A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds JOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NASHOBA CONSERVATION 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.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Melampy-Lawrence Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Melampy-Lawrence Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- New England Aquarium Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Barnstable Land Trust Inc: 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Science: 0% of income from government
- Museum of Fine Arts: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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