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Belmont Savings Bank Foundation at a glance

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Belmont Savings Bank Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$2.9MRecreation & Sports$160kArts & Culture$102kPublic Safety & Disaster$100kFood & Nutrition$49kEnvironment$32k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$927k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Belmont Education Foundation$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Belmont After School Enrichment Collaborative: $16k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 6 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$3.3M
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+127%

Still filing today

83%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • BE
    BELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +43%
  • BF
    BELMONT FOOD COLLABORATIVE INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $49k · revenue +76%
  • MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $32k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • BP
    Belmont Public Schools
    one grant, 2022 · $78k
  • BA
    BELMONT AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT COLLABORATIVE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $16k · revenue +35%
  • PO
    PATRONS OF BELMONT PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +127% · 38% of their budget
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.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 9 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
7/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Town of Belmont Massachusetts: $3,110,000 · OtherTown of Belmont Massachusetts+1 more: $77,985 · OtherBELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $61,500 · EducationBELMONT FOOD COLLABORATIVE INC: $49,345 · EducationBELMONT HIGH SCHOOL PTO INC: $6,000 · EducationMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $31,500 · EnvironmentPOWERS MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureBELMONT AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,972 · Human ServicesPATRONS OF BELMONT PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 · Philanthropy
Other$3,187,985Education$116,845Environment$31,500Arts & Culture$18,000Human Services$15,972Philanthropy$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBELMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $61,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetBELMONT FOOD COLLABORATIVE INC: $49,345 over 4y, 14% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $31,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPOWERS MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBELMONT AFTER SCHOOL ENRICHMENT COLLABORATIVE INC: $15,972 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPATRONS OF BELMONT PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 38% of budgetBELMONT HIGH SCHOOL PTO INC: $6,000 over 2y, 42% of budget
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.

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
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Belmont Savings Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belmont Savings Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2023
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Powers Music School Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Belmont Savings Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Belmont Savings Bank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 9 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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