· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +77% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MUMarquette University5× · 2020–2024 · $75k · revenue +24%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation2× · 2020–2022 · $50k · revenue +76%
- 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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pequot Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pequot Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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