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BOSTON AREA GLEANERS INC
Schedule o
$1.2M
Granted FY2021
35
Grants
1
Communities
$370k
Largest
01What you fund
01beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
programmingfood bankjfcsfood pantrytable
2020
programmingfood bankfood pantryjfcstable
2021
programingprogrammingfood panrybrookline foodsalvation armyfood pantrytable
2022
orchardsfruit farmfarms
2023
soup kitchenfarmingharvestsalvation armyvalleyfood bankentry
2024
careeducationfood insecurityhealthy foodsocialdistributioneconomic
2025
food access
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
02FY2021 · 35 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k15 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $278k
- $250k+1 grant · $370k
$12,248
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- FOOD FOR FREE$370,342
- FAIR FOODS$134,683
- LAZARUS HOUSE$85,787
- HAVEN FROM HUNGER$57,725
- CHELSEA SALVATION ARMY$48,769
- FOOD LINK$46,923
- VARIOUS ORGANIZATIONS UNDER 5000$34,683
- BRAZILLIAN WORK CENTER$32,214
- LEXINGTON FOOD PANTRY$25,684
- HEALTH WALTHAM$19,613
- HEET TIME OF CHARGE$15,864
- ROSE'S BOUNTY FOOD PANRY$15,164
- MYSTIC CMMUNITY MARKET$15,051
- CENTRE ST FOOD PANTRY$14,966
- LYNN SALVATION ARMY$14,546
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 8%. 98% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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
The Open Pantry of Greater Lowell Inc
The mission of The Open Pantry is to relieve hunger in our community. We aim to connect people to a variety of filling, nutritious, and culturally-appropriate food as well as to other community resources; to advocate on behalf of those in…
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2
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 food resources
Food & Nutrition
3
Wellfleet Food Pantry
Food pantry to provide food to community members in need
Education
4
Arlington Community Food Bank
The Arlington Community Food Bank's mission is to help end hunger in our community at its root cause.
Human Services
5
The Food Bank Support Corporation
To raise funds, support the functions of,& carry out the purposes of the food bank of western ma
Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
Bedford Community Table-Pantry Inc
To fight food insecurity and honor the dignity of all community members by supporting food assistance efforts in and around Bedford, MA.
Human Services
8
Food for People Inc
Food for people is a designated food bank committed to providing food for those in need.
Food & Nutrition
9
The Peoples Pantry
Distributing food to those in need residing in southern bekshire county, ma
Food & Nutrition
10
Holliston Pantry Shelfinc
Providing food and goods to the needy in holliston,ma.
Employment
11
Our Neighbors' Table Inc
The Organization is committed to establishing a community that provides for the whole person with nourishing food, kindness and dignity. The Organization provides food directly to those experiencing food insecurity while also directing the…
Human Services
12
Worcester County Food Bank Inc
To engage,educate and lead worcester county in creating a hunger free community through the collection and distribution of donated food and advocacy programs that support people in being more food secure and healthy.
Food & Nutrition
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Grant Manor Homeowners Association. 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 33 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
0.0%0/49
the rest of the field
9%
2,381/25,648
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
46 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2018–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/46
Grantees still filing
41/46
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$925,405Housing & Shelter$85,787Food & Nutrition$77,865Youth Development$6,247
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.
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.
Arbella Insurance FoundationMA35.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Arbella Insurance Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Analog Devices Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable · Three Squares New England Inc · Community Foundation For · Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · American Tower Charitable Foundation · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Adelard and Valeda Roy 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 organisation BOSTON AREA GLEANERS 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
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- Lazarus House Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Lazarus House.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~12 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 042755382 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Lazarus House, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Boston Area Gleaners Inc?
Find your warmest path to Boston Area Gleaners Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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