· Private foundation
The Scully Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $406k
- $250k+1 grant · $272k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS BOSTON | $272,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHOIR SCHOOL | $190,500 |
| ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY AND EDUCATION CENTER | $65,000 |
| THE HANDEL & HAYDN SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERS | $10,000 |
| BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN'S PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY | $10,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PRO-LIFE AMERICA | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| ST PAUL PARISH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CAMBRIDGE CHAMBER ENSEMBLE | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL | $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 (FY19–21, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 8 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $105k 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
- HAHANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $866k · revenue +36%
- MCMOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER6× · 2019–2024 · $177k · revenue +18%
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $64k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIESone grant, 2019 · $100k
- MFMGH FUNDone grant, 2017 · $25k
- FMFRANCISCAN MISSIONARY SISTERS FOR AFRICAone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
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…
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…
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
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…
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.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New England Conservatory of Music and the most unlike its peers is The Institute for American Indian Studies. 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 47 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 102 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 HANDEL AND HAYDN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MOTHER CAROLINE ACADEMY & EDUCATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABBOT PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITABLE BUREAU OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds EMERALD NECKLACE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARROLL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTRY CHAMBER PLAYERSINC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF LAWRENCE ACADEMY AT GROTON MA CORP ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Boca Grande Preschool Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds SARASA INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING 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 · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Ia Lenoir Charitable Tr · Alvord Family Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Catholic Schools Foundation Inc · Middlecott Foundation
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 Scully Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Sarasa Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Handel and Haydn Society — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Conservatory of Music — 1% of income from government
- Edith Wharton Restoration Inc — 1% of income from government
- Simmons University — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Emerald Necklace Conservancy Inc — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% 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.