· Private foundation
The Nichols Trust Attn Richard Husk
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION | $13,500 |
| BOSTON UNIVERSITY'S WHEELOCK COLLEGE OF EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | $12,000 |
| LAWRENCE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| BERRY COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| BRIMMER & MAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC TELEVISION | $3,000 |
| WGBH | $3,000 |
| APPLEWILD SCHOOL | $2,850 |
| SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF NH FORESTS | $2,250 |
| BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF NNE | $1,000 |
| MASS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN | $500 |
| BRIGHAM & WOMEN'S FAULKNER HOSPITAL | $500 |
| YMCA OF GREATER NASHUA | $500 |
| HOLLIS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
36 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100 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
- BABRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +56%
- TOTRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP9× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +40%
- BCBERRY COLLEGE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $20k
- PLPISCATAGUOG LAND CONSERVANCY NISSITISSIT RIVERone grant, 2020 · $10k
- BUBOSTON UNIVERSITY'S WHEELOCK OF EDUCATION & HUMAN DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2020 · $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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Our mission is to spark people's curiosity to explore, steward, and find peace and joy in nature. in service to this, norman bird sanctuary inspires, builds, and engages a community of stewards who preserve, protect, enjoy, and learn from…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Bb&n, an all gender day school in cambridge, massachusetts, was established in 1974 by the merger of two independent schools, the buckingham school and the browne & nichols school, founded respectively in 1889 and 1883. located on multiple…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. amherst brings together the most…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hollis Firemens Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 41 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 BRIMMER AND MAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds BERRY COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds BEAVER BROOK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELOCK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAMPSHIRE PUBLIC BROADCASTING ↗
- Who funds APPLEWILD SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of Greater Nashua ↗
- Who funds SPAULDING ACADEMY & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds HOLLIS FIREMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PERKINS SCHOOL FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OLD STURBRIDGE INC ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC MOBILITY PATHWAYS INC ↗
- Who funds PLIMOTH PATUXET MUSEUMS INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HARRIS CENTER FOR CONSERVATION EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SHAKER VILLAGE 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Nichols Trust Attn Richard Husk 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.
- Manomet Inc — 12% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Economic Mobility Pathways Inc — 6% of income from government
- Old Sturbridge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
- Plimoth Patuxet Museums Inc — 1% 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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