· Private foundation
Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 90% of ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF AGED WOMEN OF NEW BEDFORD’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $235k
- $250k+1 grant · $463k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $463,368 |
| TOWN OF WESTPORT | $30,000 |
| PACE | $25,000 |
| SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD ART MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD FISHING HERITAGE | $15,000 |
| ZEITERION | $15,000 |
| SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK | $15,000 |
| FAIRHAVEN COUNCIL ON AGING | $15,000 |
| DARTMOUTH COUNCIL ON AGING | $10,000 |
| CAPE VERDEAN ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| NEW BEDFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S FUND SOUTHCOAST | $10,000 |
| BUZZARD BAY COALITION | $10,000 |
| BUZZARD BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $14) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k 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
- SCSOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC5× · 2021–2025 · $154k · revenue +47%
- AMArt Museum New Bedford Inc5× · 2021–2025 · $75k · revenue +22%
- SCSOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC3× · 2023–2025 · $55k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- WCWESTPORT COUNCIL ON AGINGone grant, 2021 · $35k
- NBNEW BEDFORD POLICE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ACACUSHNET COUNCIL ON AGING2× · 2021–2022 · $902
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southcoast Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Coastal Neighbors Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 27 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 SOUTH COASTAL COUNTIES LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Art Museum New Bedford Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COAST LGBTQ NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COASTAL NEIGHBORS NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc ↗
- Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL EVALUATION AND ADJUSTMENT FACILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Old Dartmouth Historical Society ↗
- Who funds COASTAL FOODSHED ↗
- Who funds BUZZARDS BAY COALITION ↗
- Who funds YWCA OF SOUTHEASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENS FUND SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC ↗
- Who funds Community Nurse Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHCOAST COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Island Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Alvord Family Foundation · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc · First Citizens Charitable Foundation Inc · William E Schrafft and Bertha E Schrafft Charitable Trust · Coastline Elderly Services Inc
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 Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford 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.
- Coastal Foodshed — 66% of income from government
- Buzzards Bay Coalition — 37% of income from government
- South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc — 29% of income from government
- Ywca of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc — 28% of income from government
- Immigrants' Assistance Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Southcoast Community Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Old Dartmouth Historical Society — 2% 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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