· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| JAMES MADISON UNIVERSITY ANNUAL FUND | $5,000 |
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +65% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 42 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.
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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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William F Connell Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William F Connell Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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