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The Pequot Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL MCCANCE CENTER FOR BRAIN HEALTH | $10,000 |
| MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| NOTRE DAME ACADEMY | $5,600 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SAINT JOHN PAUL II CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH PARISH | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC | $5,000 |
| THE OUTREACH PROGRAM - END HUNGER NE | $2,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF DORCHESTER | $2,500 |
| BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH BEVERLY HOSPITAL ONCOLOGY FUND | $2,500 |
| VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC | $1,000 |
| THE MCMULLEN MUSEUM OF ART AT BOSTON COLLEGE | $1,000 |
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 (FY24–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +77% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- MUMarquette University5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +24%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +55%
- AAADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $18k · revenue +196%
Funded once
- TJTHE JOHN J BURNS LIBRARY AT BOSTON COLLEGEone grant, 2020 · $10k
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNNone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +13%- GUGLEN URQUHART SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +25%
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.
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 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.
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…
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
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…
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.
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.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of umass global is to provide students with an accessible inclusive, and transformative education based on excellence and flexibility, creating lasting value and relevance for a dynamic world.
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Massachusetts Wonderfund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marquette University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 Marquette University ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A STUDENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds GLEN URQUHART SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS WONDERFUND INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DORCHESTER 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Pequot 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.
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% 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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