· Private foundation
Barre Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Barre Food Pantry | $15,900 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Montachusett Veterans Outreach Ctr | $7,800 |
| Barre Historical Society | $7,000 |
| Quabbin Area Little League | $6,000 |
| Friends of Fobes Memorial Library | $5,000 |
| Friends of the Stone Church Inc | $5,000 |
| Dismas House | $5,000 |
| Paige Memorial Library | $4,645 |
| Quabbin RSD Oakham Center School | $4,500 |
| Camp Putnam | $4,300 |
| Town of Barre Library | $4,300 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Hardwick Community Fair Associatio | $3,000 |
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 (FY23–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $34k 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
- BHBARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC4× · 2019–2024 · $50k · revenue +128% · 47% of their budget
- CPCAMP PUTNAM INC5× · 2019–2024 · $33k · revenue +184%
- BLBARRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION6× · 2019–2024 · $31k · revenue +139% · 32% of their budget
Funded once
- QQQDrug Quabbin Regional SchDistone grant, 2021 · $15k
- FFFelton Field Commissionone grant, 2020 · $13k
- MWMount Wachusett Community Collegeone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 foster interest in the history of barnstable, massachusetts
Preservation of undeveloped land in the town of barnstable and nearby areas
To provide the general public with woodland trails through a wildlife sanctuary in a natural state for their appreciation and enjoyment
Land preservation
We connect people to natural places by protecting open land and creating outdoor experiences in north central massachusetts.
Conservation and preservation of land.
Land conservation
To acquire and preserve for posterity, the artifacts and history of the town of freetown, massachusetts.
Education and preservation of wellfleet historical buildings and artifacts in wellfleet, ma.
To study, educate, collect and preserve historical records and artifacts for the town of Westborough, MA
The mission of the west stockbridge historical society is to preserve the history and culture of west stockbridge, ma through research, programming, community involvment and the restoration of the old town hall.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Barre Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Karen Wellington Memorial Foundation. 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 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 73 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 BARRE HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP PUTNAM INC ↗
- Who funds BARRE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds DISMAS HOUSE OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTACHUSETT VETERANS OUTREACH CENTER I ↗
- Who funds JO'S JACKETS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE STONE CHURCH ↗
- Who funds EAST QUABBIN LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Wachusett Community College Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SHINE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds POLUS CENTER FOR SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VANESSA T MARCOTTE FOUNDATION - NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Fleming Family Foundation · Reliant Foundation Inc · Woosox Foundation Inc · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · AbbVie Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Barre Savings Charitable Foundation Inc 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.
- Montachusett Veterans Outreach Center I — 17% of income from government
- East Quabbin Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
- Friends of the Stone Church — 2% of income from government
- Turn Back Time Inc — 1% 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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