· Private foundation
William E Maloney Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF LEXINGTON | $3,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| REACH | $2,500 |
| BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| MISSION STADIUMS FOR MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS (MS4MS) | $2,500 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF WALTHAM | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| BOND-BARDES CHILDREN'S COLLEGE SAVINGS PLAN (MANAGED BY FIDELITY) | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,200 |
| SPEED MEASURING DEVICES (SMD) | $1,050 |
| PARISH OF SAINT MICHAEL | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 38% of William E Maloney Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in MA; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +53% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- LHLEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY8× · 2017–2025 · $50k · revenue +185%
- CMCARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $22k · revenue +36%
- RIREACH INC6× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- MHMATIGNON HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $10k
- ASALAN S FIELDS COMMUNITY ENRICHMENT FUNDone grant, 2018 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
To provide educational assistance grants to the children of massachusetts service members who have died in the war against terrorism while deployed on operations enduring freedom and iraqi freedom, or in other, future theaters of…
The mission of the lexington cancer foundation, inc. organization is to create awareness and raise funds in the fight against cancer. the organization is also dedicated to improving the quality of healthcare for cancer patients.
The boston home seeks to improve the lives of adults with advanced multiple sclerosis and other neurological disorders.
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 organization was formed to raise funds to support research of pediatric neuroblastoma and other forms of pediatric cancer.
Our mission is to improve quality of life by transforming the understanding, treatment, and care of the ocular surface.
Veterans legal services helps massachusetts veterans overcome adversity by providing free civil legal aid that honors their service, promotes well-being, and responds to their distinctive needs.
To provide a vacation home for kids that are fighting cancer, so their entire family, extended family, and friends can all be together under the same roof to relax, make memories, and have fun.
The massachusetts fallen heroes memorial fund was founded in 2010 by decorated combat veterans, gold star families and boston firefighters with the goal of erecting a permanent memorial honoring the men and women of massacusetts who gave…
The red sox foundation's mission is to harness the passion of red sox nation to make a difference in the lives of children, veterans, families and our communities in need throughout new england by improving their health, educational and…
Our mission: drive research, expand knowledge, and advance care for the nf community. our vision: end nf.
To raise awareness of the many forms of cancer that afflict persons of all ages and to encourage others to do their part to combat cancer of all for ms.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is TB12 Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Pittielove Rescue 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 26 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) — 4% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 70 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 LEXINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CARY MEMORIAL LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REACH INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON BRUINS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARLINGTON BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF LEXINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEAN ELMORE MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AGASSIZ VILLAGE FOUNDED BY MR & MRS HARRY E BURROUGHS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children ↗
- Who funds COPS FOR KIDS WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds LEXSEEHER INC ↗
- Who funds MARLEY'S MUTTS DOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JENNIFER CREED 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 William E Maloney 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.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Reach Inc — 85% of income from government
- Lexseeher Inc — 19% of income from government
- Lexington Historical Society — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.