· Private foundation
The William F Connell Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $900k
- $250k+1 grant · $404k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL 1910 SH RICHEMONTCIE FIN | $403,912 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE- 2170 SH NETFLIX | $205,217 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE- 215 SH MASTERCARD INC | $121,694 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE- 1175 SH NETFLIX | $111,120 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL- 1180 SH NETFLIX | $110,649 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL- 177 SH MASTERCARD | $100,885 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL- 961 SH NETFLIX | $90,113 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE- 639 SH NETFLIX | $60,430 |
| DEXTER SOUTHFIELD ANNUAL FUND | $50,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST | $50,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE FLYNN FUND | $20,000 |
| SCHOOL OF SAINTS FAITH HOPE AND CHARITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| PROCTOR ACADEMY | $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 (FY20–20, $4k) 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 +65% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- PAPROCTOR ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $49k · revenue +38%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $33k · revenue +74%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MGMASS GENERAL HOSPITAL 1894 SH PERNOD RICARDone grant, 2024 · $267k
- BCBOSTON COLLEGE STUDENT ATHLETE COMMUNITYone grant, 2024 · $250k
- SMST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL- 356 SH MARTIN MARIETTAone grant, 2024 · $205k
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.
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…
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.…
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…
Endicott college offers students a vibrant academic environment that remains true to its founding principle of integrating professional and liberal arts with experiential learning. for more information see schedule o.
The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To educate students in the liberal arts through free inquiry and the open exchange of ideas.when grinnell college framed its charter in the iowa territory of the united states in 1846, it set forth a mission to educate its students "for…
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…
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.
Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of Deerfield Academy and the most unlike its peers is Mount Auburn Community Fund Empowering Patient Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 42 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 BPS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROCTOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN COMMUNITY FUND EMPOWERING PATIENT CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE IBMA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLDERNESS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds Equestrian Connection NFP ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALEX LIVINGSTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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: American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 William F Connell Charitable Trust 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.
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Trinity College — 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.