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Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$154k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Food & Nutrition$646kHousing & Shelter$272kInternational$187kYouth Development$110kReligion$71kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kCommunity Improvement$45kHuman Services$45kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $44k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $254k
$21,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM$153,500
BREAD OF LIFE$100,000
PINE STREET INN$22,000
ACTON FOOD PANTRY$21,500
THE SALEM PANTRY$7,600
CONGREGATION BETH ISRAEL$7,000
NEWTON FOOD PANTRY$6,000
Individual grant recipient$4,800
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 84% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%INTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICE: $10k → 7%FRANKLIN FOOD PANTRY: $25k → 7%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%OUR NEIGHBORS TABLE: $25k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%OUR NEIGHBORS' TABLE: $10k → 10%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $25k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $22k → 16%PINE STREET INN: $9k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $12k → 16%MALDEN WARMING CENTER: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$905k · 16 repeat orgs$575k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
51

Total granted

$905k
$554k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+54%

Still filing today

69%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterReligionPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • BO
    BREAD OF LIFE INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $266k · revenue +154%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    2× · 2021–2024 · $187k · revenue +117%
  • PINE STREET INN INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $131k · revenue +90%

Funded once

  • WE
    WEST END HOUSE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -11%
  • HS
    Hebrew Senior Life Incgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +54%
  • VV
    VIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +14%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
East Boston Community Soup Kitchen Inc

To feed, shelter and assist with recovery and self-care the hungry and homeless in our community, and to do so without judgement or exclusivity

Human Services
2
Merrimack Valley Food Bank Inc

The focus of the merrimack valley food bank is to help meet a person's most profound need - adequate nutrition and freedom from hunger. only through cooperative efforts can society initiate change, develop strategies to alleviate hunger,…

Food & Nutrition
3
Food Link Inc

Food link is working to create a more equitable food system throughout greater boston by rescuing and distributing high-quality, customized food to under-resourced communities and by advocating for systems change.

Food & Nutrition
4
West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc

To supply the necessary food to needy residents

Food & Nutrition
5
Berkshire Food Project Inc

To alleviate hunger, food insecurity and social isolation by serving healthy and dignified noontime meals every weekday by providing education in making good, nutritional choices and by helping people access available food resources.

Food & Nutrition
6
Falmouth Food Pantry Inc

our goal is to alleviate hunger through providing healthy foods as well as basic hygiene supplies. We respond also to specific food needs caused by medical and religious requirements.

Food & Nutrition
7
Billerica Community Pantry Inc

Provide assistance to those within the Billerica Community with food and personal care items to alleviate hunger and poverty.

Food & Nutrition
8
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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9
Community Cooks Inc

Community cooks mobilizes individuals, businesses, civic educational and faith-based groups to prepare home-cooked food for vulnerable populations seeking assistance from human service agencies throughout greater boston. the agency…

Food & Nutrition
10
Daniel's Table Inc

To provide home-style meals that are produced with care and served with dignity for those challenged by job loss, illness or misfortune.

Food & Nutrition
11
Tewksbury Community Pantry Inc

The heart of the tewksbury community pantry's mission lies in our commitment to assist residents of tewksbury facing hardships. we extend beyond mere food distribution, offering guidance towards additional resources, ensuring our clients…

Human Services
12
Wellfleet Food Pantry

To address food insecurity and provide food to members of the community in need, and all ancillary matters related thereto.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Lunch Place Inc and the most unlike its peers is Saint Annes Food Pantry Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%42%35–55yr14%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%31%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr14%11%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
3,188/28,173

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 68 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
28/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $35,400 · OtherFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INCHARVEST ON VINE FOOD PANTRY — $22,000 · OtherACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,500 · OtherWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $20,000 · OtherREHOBOTH BAPTIST CHURCH OF BOSTON — $16,800 · OtherPACE — $16,500 · OtherHebrew Senior Life Inc — $25,000 · OtherWEST END HOUSE INC — $25,000 · OtherBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $17,700 · Other+35 more — $273,180 · Other+35 moreBREAD OF LIFE INC — $266,138 · ReligionBREAD OF LIFE INCTIFERETH RAPHAEL INC — $25,000 · ReligionTIFERETH RAPHAEL INCPINE STREET INN INC — $131,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN I…Our Neighbors' Table Inc — $35,000 · Human ServicesOur Neighbors' Ta…Franklin Food Pantry Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesFranklin Food Pan…SAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOU…MALDEN WARMING CENTER — $10,000 · Human ServicesINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $186,833 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KI…SALEM PANTRY INC — $33,100 · Food & NutritionSALEM PANTR…ARLINGTON EATS INC — $31,440 · Food & NutritionARLINGTON E…CENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,300 · Food & NutritionCENTRE STRE…NEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,000 · Food & NutritionNEWTON FOOD…BREAD & ROSES INC — $20,000 · Food & NutritionBREAD & ROS…THE CHARITY GUILD INC — $7,668 · Food & NutritionSAINT ANNES FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,200 · Food & NutritionVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $25,000 · Housing & ShelterCITIZENS INN INC — $22,360 · Housing & ShelterFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $14,000 · Housing & ShelterBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $3,100 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $67,000 · Youth Development
Other$473,080Religion$291,138Human Services$223,000International$211,833Food & Nutrition$144,708Housing & Shelter$69,460Youth Development$67,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBREAD OF LIFE INC — $266,138 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $186,833 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $131,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BOSTON INC — $67,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFALMOUTH SERVICE CENTER INC — $35,400 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOur Neighbors' Table Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSALEM PANTRY INC — $33,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetARLINGTON EATS INC — $31,440 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCENTRE STREET FOOD PANTRY INC — $25,300 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetWEST END HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHebrew Senior Life Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVIETNAM VETERANS WORKSHOP INC DBA NEW ENGLAND CENTER AND HOME FOR VETERANS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFranklin Food Pantry Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITIZENS INN INC — $22,360 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetACTON COMMUNITY SUPPER AND FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNEWTON FOOD PANTRY INC — $21,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBREAD & ROSES INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetWOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE OVER TROUBLED WATERS INC — $17,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF TRI COUNTY INC — $14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION SOUTHCOAST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH SOCIAL SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHARITY GUILD INC — $7,668 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAINT ANNES FOOD PANTRY INC — $6,200 over 1y, 22% of budgetBOSTON RESCUE MISSION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT NEW HOPE INC — $3,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSIE'S PLACE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc — $700 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Arbella Insurance Fou…Rockland Trust Charit…Cummings Foundation G…Project Bread-The Wal…Massachusetts Bankers…Boston Area Gleaners …Agnes M Lindsay TrustUnited Way Of Massach…Boston Foundation IncCambridge Savings Cha…The Pfizer Foundation…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA42.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Area Gleaners Inc · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation 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 Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
  • Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
  • Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
  • United Way of Tri County Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Citizens Inn Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Tifereth Raphael Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Salem Pantry Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Our Neighbors' Table Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
  • West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Inc?

Find your warmest path to Beth Israel Senior Citizens Housing Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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