· Private foundation
Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 47% of CAMBRIDGE SAVINGS 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 $10k151 grants · $438k
- $10k–50k50 grants · $1.0M
- $50k–250k4 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUST-A-START CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| BRIDGES HOMEWARD (FORMERLY CAMBRIDGE FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICE (CFCS)) | $75,250 |
| TECH GOES HOME | $75,000 |
| ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (ACDC) | $50,000 |
| FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC | $41,250 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING (NOAH) | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT | $40,000 |
| URBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| WATCH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $40,000 |
| SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION | $36,000 |
| THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS | $35,000 |
| HOMEOWNER'S REHAB INC (HRI) | $35,000 |
| FENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION (FENWAY CDC) | $35,000 |
| SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC | $34,640 |
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 (FY19–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +46% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
268 repeat relationships — 110 still active in FY2025, 158 since wound down; 90 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $467k 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
- JCJUST-A-START CORPORATION6× · 2019–2025 · $640k · revenue +16%
TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED5× · 2020–2025 · $425k · revenue +62%- TSTHE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC6× · 2019–2025 · $265k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $1.9M
- BFBENJAMIN FRANKLIN CUMMINGS INSTITUTE OF TECHone grant, 2023 · $101k
- SBSUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORK OF MASSACHUSETTS INCone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -13%
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.
Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
To advance the interests of the human services sector and providers through advocacy, education, and engagement of diverse stakeholders for collective impact.
Mfhc is committed to ending systemic housing discrimination and creating inclusive communities through education, outreach, advocacy, housing counseling and enforcement.
Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…
Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the roundtable is to make massachusetts the most desirable place to live, work and do business by engaging private sector executives and public leaders to ensure access to a robust, diverse and talented workforce that…
The mission of the massachusetts nonprofit network is to unite and strengthen the nonprofit sector in the commonwealth through public policy, public awareness, and capacity building services.
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communitas Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stone Institute and Newton Home for Aged People. 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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
410 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. 410 of the 700 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 JUST-A-START CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds TECH GOES HOME INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SOMERVILLE COMMUNITY CORPORATION INC ↗
- Who funds MOUNT AUBURN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds URBAN EDGE HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HOMEWARD INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR FREE COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE HEALTH ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSING CORPORATION OF ARLINGTON ↗
- Who funds CARITAS COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERVILLE HOMELESS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ACTION FOR BOSTON COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds METRO WEST COLLABORATIVE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds FENWAY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC ↗
- Who funds ASIAN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS NETWORK OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds Healthy Waltham Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MINUTEMAN SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HILDEBRAND FAMILY SELF-HELP CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY COVE HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds THE URBAN FOOD INITIATIVE 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest 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 Cambridge 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.
- Fidelity House Inc — 91% of income from government
- Nupath Inc — 84% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Respond Inc — 80% of income from government
- Bridges Homeward Inc — 77% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Minuteman Senior Services Inc — 73% of income from government
- Bay Cove Human Services Inc — 70% of income from government
- Springwell Inc — 68% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- Vietnam Veterans Workshop Inc Dba New England Center and Home for Veterans — 66% of income from government
- Cambridge Local First — 65% of income from government
- South Eastern Economic Development Corporation — 59% of income from government
- Riverside Community Care Inc — 58% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Victory Programs Inc — 49% of income from government
- Community Action Agency of Somerville — 49% of income from government
- The Guild for Human Services Inc — 44% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Midas Collaborative Inc — 39% of income from government
- Community Workshops Inc — 39% of income from government
- On the Rise Inc — 39% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- La Colaborativa Inc — 34% of income from government
- Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc — 32% of income from government
- Somerville Homeless Coalition Inc — 31% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Waltham Boys & Girls Club Inc — 29% of income from government
- Center for Women & Enterprise Inc — 27% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- HomeStart Inc — 20% of income from government
- Charles River Community Health Inc — 20% of income from government
- Solutions at Work Inc — 20% of income from government
- Ellis Early Learning Inc — 20% of income from government
- Newton Community Service Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Community Farms Outreach Inc — 20% of income from government
- Melrose Alliance Against Violence Inc — 19% of income from government
- Melrosewakefield Healthcare Inc — 18% of income from government
- Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Heading Home Inc — 17% of income from government
- Just-a-Start Corporation — 16% of income from government
- Veterans Legal Services Inc — 16% of income from government
- South Cove Community Health Center Inc — 15% of income from government
- Cambridge Camping Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- North End Community Health Committee — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Nectar Community Investments Inc — 12% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Cambridge Historical Society — 11% of income from government
- Action for Boston Community Development Inc — 11% of income from government
- Tech Goes Home Incorporated — 10% of income from government
- Melrose Orchestral Association Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Food Link Inc — 9% of income from government
- African Cultural Services Inc — 9% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Development Corporation — 9% of income from government
- Watch Inc — 9% of income from government
- Cambridge Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
- Open Table Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Dorchester Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bread of Life Inc — 6% of income from government
- Arlington Eats Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mount Auburn Hospital — 5% of income from government
- Evkids Inc — 4% of income from government
- Familyaid Boston Inc — 4% of income from government
- Waltham Partnership for Youth Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc — 4% of income from government
- Community Coalition of Melrose Inc — 4% of income from government
- Follow Your Art Community Studios Inc — 3% of income from government
- Supportive Living Inc — 3% of income from government
- Emerson Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
- East End House Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Neighborhood Developers Inc — 3% of income from government
- Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
- 826 Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- Central Square Theater Inc — 2% of income from government
- Asian Community Development Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- West End House Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc — 2% of income from government
- Urban Edge Housing Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Greater Boston Stage Company — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Bankers Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson Umbrella Inc — 1% of income from government
- Friends of Mount Auburn Cemetery — 1% of income from government
- Mcphs University — 1% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- Compass Working Capital Inc — 1% of income from government
- Cambridge College Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Somerville Community Corporation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Habitat for Humanity Metrowest- Greater Worcester Inc — 1% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Lynn Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Hospital for Children — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Asian Women for Health Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hebrew Senior Life Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Epiphany School Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Foundation 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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