· Private foundation
The Ray and Elaclaire Gosselin Charitable Trust C/O Debra Silberstein
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: 46% of THE RAY AND ELACLAIRE GOSSELIN CHARITABLE TRUST C/O DEBRA SILBERSTEIN’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 $10k10 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $149k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $99,289 |
| LAWRENCE GENERAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| JAMES L MCKEOWN BOY & GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN | $30,000 |
| STRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC | $30,000 |
| ALZHEIMER ASSOCIATION - MASSNH CHAPTER | $20,000 |
| ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE - WOMEN IN VALOR | $20,000 |
| MCLEAN PROJECT | $20,000 |
| JUSTIN'S VOICE | $10,000 |
| YOU NEVER WALK ALONE INC | $10,000 |
| BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PAN MASS CHALLENGE | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN | $6,000 |
| WINTHROP CHARITIES | $6,000 |
| WOBURN STONEHAM ELKS LODGE | $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, $103k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 22% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +56% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 9 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, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k 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
- SFSTRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC7× · 2017–2023 · $490k · revenue +166%
Lawrence General Hospital7× · 2017–2024 · $460k · revenue +33%- JVJUSTIN'S VOICE JUSTIN SCOTT LUCCHESE FOUNDATION CORPORATION8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +56% · 55% of their budget
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERALone grant, 2023 · $30k
- POPOWER OF FLOWERS PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue +21%
- WBWOBURN BOYS & GIRLS CLUBone grant, 2022 · $30k
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.
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.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Patient care, teaching, research and serving the community.
Striving to help cure neurological diseases, while empowering communities to build a healthier world.
Tertiary care academic medical center
Centering on a concept and continuum of care that embraces the health, well-being and dignity of each patient, regardless of their ability to pay, northeast hospital corporation (nhc) has four facilities, beverly hospital, addison gilbert…
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
To fund various initiatives,including research for pediatric germ cell tumors, assistance for families going through cancer treatment, and providing holiday gifts for pediatric cancer patients at boston children's hospital and jimmy fund.
The mission of the beth israel deaconess hospital-plymouth, inc. (bid-plymouth or hospital) is to improve the health and well-being of its patients and communities by providing a full continuum of healthcare services with excellence and…
Beth israel lahey health specialty care f/k/a northeast medical practice (bilhsc fka nmp) primary mission is to provide high quality medical care to the patients of northeast hospital corporation (beverly hospital, addison gilbert hospital…
The mission of the new england baptist hospital (nebh or hospital) is committed to improving the health of the communities served by providing high quality, personalized health care with compassion, dignity and respect for patient rights…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is James L Mckeown Boys and Girls Club of Woburn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 21 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
33 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. 33 of the 66 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 STRONGWATER FARM THERAPEUTIC EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Lawrence General Hospital ↗
- Who funds JUSTIN'S VOICE JUSTIN SCOTT LUCCHESE FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds JAMES L MCKEOWN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WOBURN INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds YOU NEVER WALK ALONE INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LOWELL HEALTH ALLIANCE CHNA 10 INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEGAN HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POWER OF FLOWERS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds BOURQUE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GRANARA SKERRY TRUST ↗
- Who funds BAYSTATE FINANCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINTHROP CHARITIES TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Boston Police Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds COOL KIDS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GREATER LAWRENCE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER 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 · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Greater Lowell Community Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Health Resources in Action Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Analog Devices Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Ray and Elaclaire Gosselin Charitable Trust C/O Debra Silberstein 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.
- Lawrence General Hospital — 41% of income from government
- Greater Lawrence Family Health Center Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Megan House Foundation Inc — 15% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Winchester Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 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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