· Private foundation
Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of Bluestone Bank Charitable Foundation Inc’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 $10k55 grants · $200k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| St Vincent de Paul Society - Norton | $12,000 |
| Old Colony Habitat for Humanity - Attleboro | $7,500 |
| Greater Attleboro Area Council for Children | $7,500 |
| My Brother's Keeper | $7,500 |
| Franklin Food Pantry | $7,200 |
| Our Daily Bread Food & Resource Center | $7,000 |
| Raising a Reader Massachusetts | $5,000 |
| SAFE Coalition Inc | $5,000 |
| Special Olympics of Massachuetts (SOMA) | $5,000 |
| Confikids Inc | $5,000 |
| The Massachusetts Coalition for the Homeless | $5,000 |
| Old Colony YMCA | $5,000 |
| Father Bills & MainSpring | $5,000 |
| Pro-Home Inc | $5,000 |
| Mansfield High School | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $179k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 67% 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.
69 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k 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
- MBMy Brothers Keeper Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue +9%
- FBFATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC5× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +144%
- OCOLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2022–2025 · $20k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent de Paul Society - Norton Energy Fundone grant, 2022 · $6k
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS MAone grant, 2021 · $5k
- AAATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL OF CHURCHES INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Facilitating the advancement of low and moderate income persons and other underserved residents in the south shore area of massachusetts and to assist such persons in finding and acquiring suitable housing by providing real estate…
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,…
Sojourner house is a shelter of hope for families;providing a circle of support and empowering them towards independence.
Providing meals and food to the homeless and low-income individuals
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
Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc and the most unlike its peers is Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
72 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. 72 of the 134 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 My Brothers Keeper Inc ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds OLD COLONY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Franklin Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds West Bridgewater Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds RAYNHAM FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER ATTLEBORO AREA COUNCIL FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEHEALTH HOSPICE & PALLIATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds PRO-HOME INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHFIELD FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CUPBOARD OF KINDNESS INC ↗
- Who funds RAR-MA INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL ON WHEELS OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds HEALTH IMPERATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds HOCKOMOCK YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NARRAGANSETT COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds ATTLEBORO MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HORACE MANN EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATES INC ↗
- Who funds WEST SIDE BENEVOLENT CIRCLE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER PLYMOUTH COUNTY IN ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF BRISTOL COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds OLD BRIDGEWATER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LINES AND SPACES 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: North Easton Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Mansfield Community Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · The Harborone Foundation · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - Blue Hills Charitable Foundation · Community Health Systems 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 Bluestone Bank 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.
- Habitat for Humanity of Greater Plymouth — 100% of income from government
- Health Imperatives Inc — 79% of income from government
- House of Possibilities Inc — 76% of income from government
- New Hope Inc — 73% of income from government
- SPACE2THRIVE Inc — 69% of income from government
- United Way of Greater Plymouth County in — 56% of income from government
- The Arc of Bristol County Inc — 55% of income from government
- Manet Community Health Center Inc — 25% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Digger Foods Inc — 15% of income from government
- Rise Above Foundation Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Charity Guild Inc — 10% of income from government
- Raising Multicultural Kids — 8% of income from government
- School On Wheels of Massachusetts Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Safe Coalition Incorported — 6% of income from government
- South Shore Childrens Chorus Corp — 6% of income from government
- Coaching for Change Inc — 5% of income from government
- Sharon Community Chamber Orchestra Inc — 5% of income from government
- Marshfield Food Pantry Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Franklin Food Pantry Inc — 3% of income from government
- Norton Historical Society Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Special Olympics Massachusetts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fuller Craft Museum Inc — 1% of income from government
- Your Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Children's Museum in Easton Inc — 1% of income from government
- Attleboro Museum Inc — 0% 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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