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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.

$715k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
20
Grants FY2025
10
Organizations funded FY2024
10%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$463,368
Organizations funded a year
9 to 12
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$21M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Civil RightsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving20$715k35%
FY202410$632k10%
FY202311$641k55%
FY20229$536k0%
FY202112$516kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$2.5MCrime & Legal$164kArts & Culture$156kPublic Benefit$108kCivil Rights$65kHealth$30kEnvironment$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 14 grantees
All grantees of Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
South Coastal Counties Legal Services Inc$154,40050%
Town of Westport$107,5003n/a
Art Museum New Bedford Inc$75,00054%
South Coast Lgbtq Network Inc$55,00037%
Coastal Neighbors Network Inc$50,320316%
New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc$50,00036%
Developmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities Inc$25,00020%
Old Dartmouth Historical Society$11,07020%
Buzzards Bay Coalition$10,0001n/a
YWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc$10,00020%
Coastal Foodshed$10,0001n/a
Womens Fund Southcoast Inc$10,00012%
Young Men's Christian Association Southcoast Inc$7,0001n/a
Community Nurse Inc$5,00010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.4M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSouth Coastal Counties Legal Services Inc: $154,400 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetArt Museum New Bedford Inc: $75,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSouth Coast Lgbtq Network Inc: $55,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetCoastal Neighbors Network Inc: $50,320 over 3y, 16% of budgetNew Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc: $50,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetDevelopmental Evaluation and Adjustment Facilities Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOld Dartmouth Historical Society: $11,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA of Southeastern Massachusetts Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWomens Fund Southcoast Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCommunity Nurse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 10.

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.

Southcoast Community Foundation IncMA24.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford?

Find your warmest path to Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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About Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford

How much does Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford give?
Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford reported 20 grants totaling $715,368 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (82%), Crime & Legal (5%), Arts & Culture (5%).
Who are Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: South Coastal Counties Legal Services Inc ($154k), Town of Westport ($108k), Art Museum New Bedford Inc ($75k).
Does Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Island Foundation Inc.
Where is Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford based?
Association for the Relief of Aged Women of New Bedford is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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