· Private foundation
The Taylor 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 $10k26 grants · $84k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Essex Shipbuilding Museum | $36,400 |
| Holy Innocent's Episcopal School | $15,000 |
| Parents and Teachers Association of PS8 | $13,200 |
| Gloucester Stage Company | $12,000 |
| Cape Ann Museum | $10,000 |
| Kids Orbit | $9,500 |
| Compassionate Care | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| First Book | $5,000 |
| Essex County Greenbelt | $5,000 |
| Boston Medical Center- Reach Out & Read | $5,000 |
| Generous Gardeners | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| South Shore YMCA | $4,000 |
| Middlesex School | $3,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +23% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 16 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- PAPARENTS AND TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL 85× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +98%
GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $44k · revenue +52%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE4× · 2020–2023 · $42k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- GCGRACE CHURCH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +19%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- EREast Rivers Foundationone grant, 2020 · $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.
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…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
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.
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.…
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…
Gfa engages students as partners in an innovative, inclusive, and globally minded community to prepare them for a life of purpose.
The mission of the greene school is to organize, operate and promote a not-for-profit educational institution in western rhode island that shall emcompass a charter and/or independent school and that shall be at all times operated in…
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
The rivers school is a coed college preparatory day school for grades 6 through 12. rivers inspires every student to pursue excellence, thrive in a community of connection and belonging, and create their own path to a life of impact and…
Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 69 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 PARENTS AND TEACHERS ASSOCIATION OF PUBLIC SCHOOL 8 ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KIDS ORBIT INC ↗
- Who funds FIRST BOOK ↗
- Who funds GENEROUS GARDENERS INC ↗
- Who funds PACE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE CHURCH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ANN MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER WRITERS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds KESTREL EDUCATIONAL ADVENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds Brooklyn Heights Association Inc ↗
- Who funds REVELSINC ↗
- Who funds South Shore Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds Compassionate Care ALS 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 · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Brace Cove Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · Bruce J Anderson Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Ge Aerospace 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 Taylor 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.
- Cape Ann Museum Inc — 38% of income from government
- Samaritans Inc — 31% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Gloucester Writers Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Revelsinc — 1% of income from government
- Gloucester Meetinghouse Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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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